Christian Petzold, proud member of the “Berlin School” of young German filmmaking, won the Silver Bear at last year’s Berlinale with the moody tale of a rootless woman who joins forces with a roving venture capitalist. Yella is a richly textured allegory of lust, greed, loneliness, and desire set in the rural East of [...]
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Fictionaut Blog- Fictionaut Five: Gloria Mindock March 17, 2010In the early 1980's I worked with El Salvadoran refugees. They fled the civil war in El Salvador which lasted from 1980-1992. They shared with me what was happening in their country and the atrocities committed. [Read more] Recently: Luna Digest, 3/16 Fictionaut Faves, 3/15 Checking In With Metazen […]
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- Review: MotherBong Joon-ho's new film Mother is a hard one to pin down. On the surface, the South Korean filmmaker, who successfully toyed with genre conventions in The Host and Memories of Murder, has created a classic sleuth story. The story of a devoted mother who attempts to prove her son's innocence after he is arrested of murder is also surprisingly funn […]
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