WOMEN TALKING- 12/2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Do nothing. Stay and fight. Or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.”
12/29/2022- Excellent reviews for this drama and I found it interesting. TRDB.
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BROKER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “The film follows two brokers who sell orphaned infants, circumventing the bureaucracy of legal adoption, to affluent couples who can’t have children of their own. After an infant’s mother surprises the duo by returning to ensure her child finds a good home, the three embark on a journey to find the right couple, building an unlikely family of their own.”
12/29/22- Excellent reviews for this Korean drama. TRDB.
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NELLY & NADINE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbru?ck concentration camp. Despite being separated in the last months of the war, Nelly and Nadine manage to later reunite and spend the rest of their life together. For many years their love story was kept a secret, even to some of their closest family.”
12/20/22- Excellent reviews for this documentary. TRDB.
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CHILDREN OF THE MIST- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Di is a 12-year-old girl living in Vietnam. She belongs to the Hmong ethnic minority where women get married very young, enduring the controversial tradition of “bride-kidnapping.” On the Lunar New Year’s Eve, Di has disappeared.”
12/20/22- Just a few reviews for this Vietnamese documentary and they are terrific. TRDB.
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THE SUPER 8 YEARS- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “The French writer and 2022 Nobel Prize awardee Annie Ernaux, whose novels and memoirs have gained her a devoted following (and whose autobiographical L’Événement was adapted just last year into the critically acclaimed film Happening), opens a treasure trove with this delicate journey into her family’s memory.”
12/18/22- Excellent reviews for this French documentary. TRDB.
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THE QUIET GIRL- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Rural Ireland. 1981. Nine-year-old Cait is sent away from her overcrowded, dysfunctional family to live with foster parents for the summer. Quietly struggling at school and at home, she has learned to hide in plain sight from those around her. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one painful truth.”
12/18//22- Excellent reviews from the critics and audiences as well. TRDB.
3/10/23- I found it slow sometimes but I enjoyed the movie very much. TRDB.
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PELOSI IN THE HOUSE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In her 14th documentary film for HBO, acclaimed documentarian Alexandra Pelosi offers a candid, behind-the-scenes chronicle of the life of her mother and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, through her career milestones leading up to the inauguration of President Joseph Biden in January 2021. Filmed in a cinéma vérité style over the course of three decades, PELOSI IN THE HOUSE provides a unique, longitudinal window into the life of a longstanding Democratic politician and history in the making.”
12/18/22- Fair reviews from the critics and poor ones from audiences but I liked this documentary very much. TRDB.
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LADY CHATTERERLY’S LOVER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Marrying Sir Clifford Chatterley, Connie’s life of wealth and privilege seems set as she takes the title of Lady Chatterley. Yet this idealistic union gradually becomes an incarceration when Clifford returns from the First World War with injuries that have left him unable to walk. When she meets and falls for Oliver Mellors, the gamekeeper on the Chatterley family estate, their secret trysts lead her to a sensual, sexual awakening. But as their affair becomes the subject of local gossip, Connie faces a life-altering decision: follow her heart or return to her husband and endure what Edwardian society expects of her.”
12/15/22- Good reviews- better from the critics than from audiences. TRDB.
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TO THE END- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Filmed over four years of hope and crisis, TO THE END captures the emergence of a new generation of leaders and the movement behind the most sweeping climate change legislation in U.S. history.”
12/13/22- Fair to good reviews. TRDB.
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BLANQUITA- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Blanca, an 18-year-old foster home resident, is the key witness in a scandal involving kids, politicians and rich men taking part in sex parties. Yet, the more questions are asked, the less clear it becomes what Blanca’s role in the scandal exactly is.”
12/12/22- Excellent reviews for this Spanish drama. TRDB.
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