A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's voice and stare into the eyes of death and emotional trauma with a humour that hides their pain. Superb bittersweet 'comedy'.
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CATCH-22 (1970)
Certification15 Our Rating
Adapted from the classic, absurdist, anti-war novel by Joseph Heller. "Catch-22" is the story of Yossarian, a pilot who trys to opt out of flying bombing missions by being declared insane, the catch being that anyone trying to avoid bombing missions by being insane must be sane. This dark classic catches much of the flavour of the book, the insanity, the corruption and the absurdity of war. Think MASH, but non-linear - flawed but awesome.
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LOVE IS STRANGE (2013)
Certification15 Our Rating
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SAWAKO DECIDES (2011)
Certification12 Our Rating
After 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her father gets seriously ill she have to take over his struggling factory. Gradually she becomes the decider of her own life.
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SPECIAL (RX) (2006)
Certification15 Our Rating
Les Franken defines ‘non-descript', everything about him is without note, but when he takes part in a clinical trial for a new drug called ‘Special' Les starts to notice super human gifts developing and as an avid reader of comic books decides to re-model himself as a fearless indestructible defender of justice. At times bleakly witty 'Special' is at heart a tale driven by delusion, the emotional collapse of a man who like many of us wishes to be something more than he is. A flawed tale that los
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SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK (2009)
Certification15 Our Rating
Minor theatre director Caden finds his life unravelling; suffering an undiagnosed complaint that involves loss of control of his physical functions and alone since his wife ditched him and took their daughter to go live in Berlin. Meanwhile an artistic grant allows him to direct, in a vast warehouse, an ever-expanding play, which reflects his own life and his neuroses, as the reality around him slowly disintegrates.
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THE DEATH OF MR LAZARESCU (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
Director Puiu has created a proper gem here and the jewel in the crown of contemporary Romanian cinema. Mr. Lazarescu (in a terrific central performance from Ion Fiscuteanu) is a surly alcoholic in the winter of his existence and the film is driven along by his odyssey through the pitfalls of a national health system, as physicians consistently fail to diagnose what his condition actually is. Setting his movie within the walls of a state hospital and focusing on his protagonist as he (literally)
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TRANSAMERICA (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
Bree is a remarkable woman, and only part of this is her birth identity as a male and her near-ending struggle to become a physical woman. As if Bree's life was not complicated enough she discovers she has a troubled teenage son and is reluctantly persuaded to travel to New York and bail him out of jail. So begins an odyssey for the unlikely duo as they travel back across country to Los Angeles, each keeping their secrets closely guarded but each also drawn increasingly towards the other. Witty,
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