Leo Marques

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Film reviews

Somers Town

With a beautiful acoustic soundtrack by Gavin Clarke, and far from the violence of This is England, yet keeping up with the rawness of cityscape Brit stories, director Shane Meadows takes us on a cocktail journey of cultural integration, comedy and sadness.

The Escapist

It’s an overall outstanding cast for such a bad… average… too, too average movie. Director Rupert Wyatt wrote an over tried and tested plot: man wants to escape prison, man gathers team to help him escape, man gets caught/escapes. And did nothing new or interesting with it.

Priceless

Salvadori picked up where Breakfast at Tiffany’s left off and gave us that special thing that only movies like this can, which is somehow turn prostitution into a way too cool and glamorous skill.

Under the Bombs

It follows the story of a woman trying to find her son after 10 days of bombings in Lebanon.

Already with a few awards up its sleeve from the Venice Film Festival, the Dubai International Film Festival and a Human Rights Film Award, this brilliantly crafted movie deserves an Oscar of some kind, or a few for that matter.

4 Months, 3 weeks & 2 Days:

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A film about illegal abortions in Communist Romania

Pan’s Labyrinth:

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A film set during the times of the Spanish Post War it’s a beautifully crafted with violently explicit and poetic graphics gothic story.

La Vie en Rose “La Mome”

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A movie about the life of legendary singer Edith Piaf.

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