Posts with the tag 'drama'
BUTTERFLY VISION- 2023. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “After spending months as a prisoner in Donbas, Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance expert Lilia returns home to her family. But the trauma of captivity continues to torment her and surface in dreamlike ways. Something growing deep within Lilia will not allow her to forget, yet she refuses to identify as a victim and will fight to liberate herself.”
5/22/23- Good reviews for this movie from Ukraine. TRDB.
Tags: drama, Foreign
May 22nd, 2023
STAY AWAKE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “A quietly powerful look at the ripple effects of opioid addiction, STAY AWAKE explores addiction from the lesser-seen viewpoint of the caretakers–in this case teenaged brothers Oleff and Argus. Their mother, played by Metz, is loving and well-meaning but powerless to pull herself out of the destructive cycle of her disease.”
5/22/23- Excellent reviews for this drama. TRDB.
Tags: drama
May 22nd, 2023
THE COW WHO SANG A SONG INTO THE FUTURE- 2023. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “When thousands of fish die in a polluted river in southern Chile, Magdalena, a woman long-deceased, emerges amongst their lifeless bodies. Magdalena encounters her widowed husband, sending him into a state of shock and prompting the return of their daughter, Cecilia. Magdalena’s presence and her effect on the environment stirs curiosity and fear among her family. As the past comes into focus, mother and daughter are met with the opportunity to change the future.”
5/21/23- Excellent reviews for this Spanish drama. TRDB.
Tags: drama, Foreign
May 21st, 2023
SANCTUARY- 2023. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Set over the course of one night in a single hotel room, “Sanctuary” tells the story of a dominatrix (Margaret Qualley) and Hal (Christopher Abbott), her wealthy client. About to inherit his late father’s position and fortune, Hal tries to end their relationship, but when his attempt to cut ties backfires, disaster ensues.”
5/21/23- Excellent reviews from the critics and weak ones from audiences. Sounds interesting to me. TRDB.
Tags: drama
May 21st, 2023
THE NIGHT OF THE 12th.- 2023. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In nearly every police precinct, detectives are inevitably confronted with a case that goes unsolved. The more heinous the crime, the more it haunts those whose duty it is solve it. Such is the dilemma for Yohan Vivès–a young, recently promoted police Captain–when he begins investigating the gruesome murder of a young women named Clara in the town of Grenoble.”
5/20/23- Excellent reviews for this drama. TRDB.
Tags: drama
May 20th, 2023
MASTER GARDENER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Directed by Academy Award® nominee Paul Schrader based on his original screenplay, MASTER GARDENER follows Narvel Roth (award-winner Joel Edgerton), the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, to pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Haverhill.”
5/18/23- Fair reviews for this drama. TRDB.
Tags: drama
May 19th, 2023
L’IMMENSITA- 2023. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Rome, 1970s: a world which straddles new neighborhoods being created, TV variety shows still in black & white, societal advances and family models that now seem outdated. Clara and Felice have just moved into a new apartment. Their marriage has reached a point of no return: they no longer love each other, but they can’t seem to leave each other either.”
5/12/23- Fair reviews for this Italian drama. TRDB.
Tags: drama, Foreign
May 12th, 2023
THE STARLING GIRL- 2023. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Seventeen-year-old Jem Starling struggles to define her place within her fundamentalist Christian community in rural Kentucky. Even her greatest joy of dancing with the church group is tempered by worry that her actions are sinful and she is caught between a burgeoning awareness of her own sexuality and her religious devotion. With the return of Owen, an enigmatic youth pastor, Jem soon finds herself attracted to his worldliness and charm.”
5/12/23- Excellent reviews for this drama. TRDB.
Tags: drama
May 12th, 2023
MONICA- 2023. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Monica is an intimate portrait of a woman who, for the first time in 20 years, returns home to the Midwest to take care of her ailing mother.”
5/12/23- Very good reviews for this drama. TRDB.
Tags: drama
May 12th, 2023
RICEBOY SLEEPS- 2023. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Set in the 90s, a Korean single mother raises her young son in the suburbs of Canada determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind.”
5/8/23- Excellent reviews. TRDB.
Tags: drama
May 8th, 2023
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