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What We Have (DVD Review)

April 10, 2016 By Tim Isaac Leave a Comment

Starring: Maxime Desmons, Roberta Maxwell, Jean-Michel Le Gal, Alex Ozerov, Kristen Thomson
Director: Maxime Desmons
Running Time: 89 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: April 11th 2016 (UK)

Quite often with indie films it’s easy to understand what the film is trying to do and applaud it for the effort, but the movie itself doesn’t actually achieve what it sets out to do. That’s the problem with What We Have, which works better in theory than practice.

Maurice is a Frenchman who has uprooted himself to a new life in a remote town in Northern Canada. He’s gone there to escape a past that haunts him, but despite his new surroundings, he finds it difficult to connect with the people he meets. He gets two jobs – one as an actor in French-language plays and the other tutoring a teenage boy who needs help with his foreign-languages. [Read more…]

Xenia (DVD Review)

April 10, 2016 By Tim Isaac 1 Comment

Starring: Kostas Nikouli, Nikos Gelia, Yannis Stankoglou, Aggelos Papadimitriou, Romanna Lobats
Director: Panos H. Koutras
Running Time: 124 mins
Certificate: 15
Release Date: April 11th 2016 (UK)

After the death of his mother, teenager Dany leaves Crete to visit his 17-year-old brother, Ody, in Athens. At first Ody isn’t happy to see his younger sibling, as he knows Dany has a penchant for causing trouble. He’s also dealing with the fact that as his mother was Albanian he’s not recognised as a Greek citizen and might be deported when he reaches 18.

That’s despite the fact they have a Greek father – who they refer to as ‘The Unspeakable’ – who ran out on them when they were little kids. Dany thinks this man may be the answer to their problems, as if they can find him they can prove they are half Greek (and therefore citizens) and perhaps get him to give them the money he should have been paying in child support. [Read more…]

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