Infamous
Members’ Rating: 85% A very fine but very different film about Truman Capote and the dark story of his life leading up to the Kansas murders, and his book “In Cold Blood”. Sharply scripted, the excellent cast includes Toby Jones,...
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Whisky
Members’ Rating: 40% Taciturn Jacobo, owner of a sock factory and still single, decides to enlist his forewoman to act as his wife when his brother and sister-in-law pay him a rare visit from Argentina. This is a beautifully understated...
Black Book
(Original title: Zwartboek) Members’ Rating: 81% This is a fast-moving and heart-racing WW2 drama, set in Holland 1944. A young Jewish woman seeking the betrayers of her parents joins the Resistance and starts a perilous affair with a Nazi officer....
The Namesake
Members’ Rating: 79% Barely-acquainted newlyweds, Ashoke and Ashimal, leave Calcutta to start a new life in New York. There they start a family and the two children grow up as Americans, however the differences between the generations lead to conflict...
My Best Friend
(Original Title: Mon Meilleur Ami) Members’ Rating: 87% Francois is a wealthy antique dealer who has everything. However, he discovers at a dinner that according to those present nobody likes him. Taunted, he agrees to a wager to produce a...
