The review may contain spoilers I started watching “What We Did On Our Holiday” with extremely high expectations. The main reason was the cooperation of two of the greatest -and potentially legendary- British actors, Rosamund Pike (Abi) and David Tennant (Doug). They portrait a recently divorced couple with three children that decide to go together on holidays to celebrate Grandpa’s
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After the box office success of the first movie (budget around $20 millions – revenue $194 millions), “Downton Abbey” returns for a big-screen sequel this Christmas. Based on the facebook’s post ” Julian Fellowes and the entire Downton cast are back for #DowntonAbbey2″. The annoucement also refers some surprises, since the cast will also include Hugh Dancy (Hannibal), Laura Haddock
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The new collaroboration of Anders Thomas Jensen with Mads Mikkelsen (“The Hunt”, “After the Wedding”) and Nikolaj Lie Kaas (“The Keeper of Lost Causes”) is about to release worldwide. This is the fifth time that we saw them in Jensen’s film after “Flickering Light” (2000) “The Green Butchers” (2003), “Adam’s Apples” (2005) and “Men & Chicken” (2015). Nicolas Bro also
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Oscar-nominated The Shape of Water and Happy-Go-Lucky star Sally Hawkins has joined the cast of UK comedy-drama The Lost King, inspired by the remarkable 2012 true story of finding Brit monarch King Richard III’s remains under a Leicester car park. Steve Coogan has co-written the script with his Stan & Ollie and Philomena collaborator Jeff Pope. Philomena director, two-time Oscar
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The Romanian film “Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” directed by Radu Jude was the winner of Golden Bear prize on 71st Berlin film festival. This might be a surprise taking into consideration that the competition included films such as the new Céline Sciamma’s film “Petite Maman” and “Next Door”, the debut film of Daniel Brühl. This however isn’t true,
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When you review a “based on a true story” movie, you may end up telling the story instead of analysing the movie. Especially, when the filming location is the actual location of the real story, it’s get even harder to distinguish the difference. That’s the case with the movie “Fisherman’s Friends” directed by Chris Foggin. The movie is about ten
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Director Christian Petzold returns with his second collaboration with both Laura Beer (Frantz) and Franz Rogowski (Victoria) after Transit (2018). Undine is a folkrole love drama based on the well-known myth of the elemental creature. Undine (Laura Beer) works as a historian lecturing on Berlin’s urban development. But when the man she loves betrays her, Undine has to fulfill the
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Thomas Vinterberg’s “Another Round” (original title “Druk”) was the big winner of the European Movie Awards 2020. In a virtual ceremony, the movie won four of the major categories: Best Movie, Best Director – Thomas Vinterberg, Best European Actor – Mads Mikkelsen and Best Scenario – Thomas Vinterberg &Tobias Lindholm. The movie starts with four friends discussing about a theory
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Many years before Night Manager (2016) and The Undoing (2020), Susanne Bier directed Efter Brylluppet, most well known with the english title After the Wedding. The movie had such a great success that an american version with Michelle Williams and Julianne Moore and was released in 2019. The story is about Jacob (Mads Mikkelsen), a manager of an orphanage in
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A new report of European Audiovisual Observatory (EAO) suggests that the average median budget of a European Film is € 2,01 millions. This amount excludes the very high budget films in order to be more representative for the majority of European films. Furthermore, if French films are also excluded from the sample, the amount decreases to €1,62 million, since French
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