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Bleach for the Sky: Another Earth (2011)

By on 27/12/2011 in Read it, Watch it

Another Earth opens with Rhoda (Brit Marling) offering a voice-over analysis of her past self. ‘I thought anything was possible, and it was,’ she muses. That very night, distracted by a flashing blue light in the sky, the first visible sign of the other earth of the title, Rhoda smashes into a stationary car, killing [...]

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Two Paraguayans and a Baby: Las Acacias (2011)

By on 20/12/2011 in Read it, Watch it

Craving a few hours of peace from deranged last-minute Christmas shoppers in the city centre, I stumbled across Las Acacias (2011), a quiet and gentle road movie centred on the relationship between a long-haul trucker and a young single mother. World weary long-distance trucker Ruben (Germán de Silva) agrees to take Jacinta (Hebe Duarte), an [...]

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