Mitch in Ottawa#311 - https://boxd.it/ErRA #2023MovieMarathon #Cinemastodon #FilmFest #EUFF2023 #EUFFOnline2023 #Drama #Germany It's good but would have liked to see the crime drama bit more.
#310 - https://boxd.it/zqmQ #2023MovieMarathon #Cinemastodon #EUFF2023 #EUFFOnline2023 #Drama #Latvia Pretty heavy stuff.
Soviet Milk (2023)
Young and promising doctor loses everything due to her conflict with the totalitarian Soviet regime – career, love for life and even mother’s instinct denying breast milk to her baby. However, the grown-up daughter becomes her only supporter who tries to help ease mother’s depression and learn to live under the Soviet regime. The lifelines of mother and daughter flow in the occupied Soviet Latvia from 1945 to 1989 when the Soviet Union collapses. “I didn’t want to live and I didn’t want her to drink milk from a mother who doesn’t want to live.” The story is based on the bestseller Soviet Milk by the renown Latvian novelist Nora Ikstena. Soviet Milk has been translated and published in more than 20 countries.
#309 - https://boxd.it/ws9y #2023MovieMarathon #Cinemastodon #EUFF2023 #EUFFOnline2023 #Drama #Malta Pass.
A Vipers' Pit
Based on the novel by Alex Vella Gera, the film follows father and son Richard and Noel Sammut Petri, as hidden plans from 1984, weigh down on lives in 2012. 1984, Malta is in the middle of a political crisis from years of corruption and a protracted fight between the socialist government and the catholic church. Richard Sammut Petri, a young father, is inducted into a shady organisation by his friend Roger Tabone and convinced to assassinate the Prime Minister of Malta. 2012, Noel Sammut Petri returns to Malta for his mother’s funeral, still haunted by the memories of his father Richard, who abandoned his family back in 1984. Slowly, Noel is pulled in by the old family friend Roger and his family, but the closer he gets, the more history starts to haunt his life and he becomes destined to fall in the same pit of snakes that took down his father.
#308 - https://boxd.it/AsBK #2023MovieMarathon #Cinemastodon #EUFF2023 #EUFFOnline2023 #Drama #Crime #Portugal Wow, what a bunch of complete privileged assholes.
#307 - https://boxd.it/CC1w #2023MovieMarathon #Cinemastodon #Drama #Bulgaria #EUFF2023 #EUFFOnline2023 Very moving and difficult content. If you feel like having a good cry you should watch this.
Mother (2022)
Elena, a theater director in love with her work, is 32 years old when she realizes that she cannot have children. Faced with a choice - to try to conceive in vitro with her beloved husband, the conductor Leon Mayer, or to adapt the theater program with which she transforms the lives of orphans in far Africa, Elena will rediscover the word "mother". The film is inspired by a true story.
#306 - https://boxd.it/Dy6Y #2023MovieMarathon #Cinemastodon #Movies #Drama #EUFF2023 #EUFFOnline2023 #Greece I would pass on this one. Too long, kinda boring, none of the characters really deserved attention.
#305 - https://boxd.it/tFwO #2023MovieMarathon #Cinemastodon #EUFF2023 #EUFFOnline2023 #Drama #Poland Chilling.
#303 - https://boxd.it/waPG #2023MovieMarathon #Cinemastodon #EUFF2023 #EUFFOnline2023 #Lithuania #Drama This one wore me out what with all the running and such.
#302 - https://boxd.it/zcsq #2023MovieMarathon #EUFF2023 #EUFFOnline2023 #Slovenia #Drama It's entertaining. A bit odd.
Riders (2022)
Slovenia, the spring of 1999. Two friends from a small village decide to transform their mopeds into choppers and embark on a journey. Looking for freedom and love, they travel through dreams of the past and visions of the future. Driven by mad impulses and haunted by the conservative moulds of traditions, they start believing and understanding things previously unimaginable. On the road through Slovenia and Croatia - two countries that have just recently seceded from Yugoslavia - they are accompanied by a young runaway woman with a mysterious past and an old biker who has seen the world in search of freedom but has still not found it. They challenge themselves and each other through shared experiences, severing their ties with and conceptions of the old and thus making way for the new.
#301 - https://boxd.it/A03q #2023MovieMarathon #Cinemastodon #Romance #Comedy #Spain #EUFF2023 #EUFFOnline2023 Fun cast, quirky tale.
Ramona (2022)
After living in London for several years, Ramona and her boyfriend Nico, return to Madrid where she hopes to re-start her acting career. The evening before her first audition she meets Bruno, an older man. The following day, at the audition, she discovers that Bruno is the director of the film.