Don't Bother
[See discussion under “My Diary” for July 16, 2014]
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An often funny but ultimately pretty trivial movie about the pain of adolescents with absent fathers
A beautiful if harrowing film about a clash between medieval and modern in which neither looks much like a winner
Even raw propaganda can do the rounds of the documentary circuit, apparently, so long as it is anti-American propaganda
Margarethe von Trotta’s moving story of a few brave German women who successfully defied the Nazis after their husbands were arrested gets a bit lost in the complications of the telling
A paean to tough women is perhaps not the best way of exploring feminine vulnerabilities, but a portrait of a psycho-bitch is always something that will find a market.
