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funny (maybe).
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White
asterisk:
expanded
format.
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* Blue
asterisk: not
mine.
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No
asterisk: it
probably
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OTHER
CRAP:
Catch
the deluxe
version of
Other Crap in
real time,
with all the
bells and
whistles, here.
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Party Down
s2e3
Rebecca Marsh
  
Brainscan's
comments:
Rebecca Marsh in Party
Down, second season,
episode 3: love the
series, all its
episodes, but this has
to be the best of them
for all the time that
Rebecca spends on
screen topless.
And she delivered her
lines perfectly.
I think. Wasn't
really listening.
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Lore
(2012)
Ursina
Lardi
Johnny's
comments:
Here's an Australian film
entirely in German. Yeah,
I'm baffled too...
Lore is an
Australian-German
co-production set in the
days after the German
surrender in World War 2.
A well-off German family
is about to fall apart.
When a German officer
leaves his family without
taking them with him, he
leaves them to fend for
themselves and worse when
he turns up dead and his
wife can't take it and
leaves her 5 children all
by themselves. Teenager
Hannelore aka Lore (Saskia
Rosendahl) is left in
charge of her siblings
including her younger
sister Lieschen, twins
brothers and a newly
arrived baby in desperate
need of her mother. So,
Lore is forced out into
post-war Germany, trying
to get to Hamburg to find
her grandmother. Lore
keeps the kids hopes of
seeing her parents again
by saying that they will
meet them at their
grandmother's house, but
this not going to happen.
Basically, it's everyone
for themselves with
Germany split up into
different regions and
Hamburg being in another
region. At a school house,
Lore meets Thomas, a
mysterious young Jewish
man who starts following
the family and ends up
helping them even though
Lore has been taught to
never trust the Jewish
people. This is going to
be a tough journey and
with the remnants of Nazi
Germany still pervading
and a wartime mentality
amongst the soldiers they
come across, illusions are
well and truly about to be
shattered. I'm a sucker
for a miserablist film,
but there's something
about Lore that just
didn't click with me. It's
not a bad film and it's
rare for film to be set in
the immediate post-war
environment, but I felt
distant the entire time.
Directed by Cate
Shortland, who sure knows
her miserablist stuff
(Somersault, her only
feature film which was
bizarrely 10 years ago,
The Silence and the short
film Joy) does good work
here, but if your looking
for uplifting, this ain't
it.
Normally, I wouldn't cap
this film, hell, I'd doubt
I'd would've watched it if
it wasn't partially
Australian, but I have
that completist mentality,
so it was always going to
be capped.
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