Le Silence de Lorna, 2008, Directed by: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne. Cast: Arta Dobroshi and Jeremie Renier
A young immigrant in a sham marriage finds herself unexpectedly torn when the gangsters who arranged it want her junkie husband dead.
Running time: 105 min
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: None
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski
Sehnsucht, 2006, Directed by: Valeska Grisebach. Cast: Andreas Muller and Ilka Welz
A volunteer firefighter who witnesses the aftermath of a car crash finds his life turned upside down by an obscure, destructive longing.
Running time: 88 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski
Gespenster, 2005, Directed by: Christian Petzold. Cast: Julia Hummer and Sebine Timoteo
Mystery of a lost child and two teenage girls on the run.
Running time: 85 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski
Bungalow, 2002, Directed by: Ulrich Kohler. Cast: Lennie Burmeister and Trine Dyholm
A German soldier goes AWOL and returns home to more problems than he left.
Running time: 84 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: ***
Music: none
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski
London to Brighton, 2006, Directed by: Pail Andrew Williams. Cast: Lorraine Stanley and Georgia Groome
An old gangster found dead involved a teen escort, the son of mob begins to chase the girl down from London to Brighton.
Running time: 85 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ****
Cast performance: ****
Music: **
Cinematography: ****
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Yakuza
Import/Export, 2007, Directed by: Ulrich Seidl. Cast: Paul Hofmann and Maria HoFstatter
A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason.
Running time: 141 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: ****
Music: **
Cinematography: ****
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski
Hunger, 2008, Directed by: Steve McQueen. Cast: Michael Fassbender
The last six weeks of the life of the Irish republican hunger striker Bobby Sands.
Running time: 96 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: ****
Music: **
Cinematography: ****
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski
Elegy, 2008, Directed by: Isabel Coixet. Cast: Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley
A professor of literature in love with a 24-year-old Cuban student.
Running time: 112 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: ****
Music: ***
Cinematography: ****
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski
Tourneuse de pages, La, 2006, France Directed by: Denis Dercourt. Cast: Catherine Frot and Deborah Francois
Melanie, a ten year old gifted piano player decided to entering the conservatory entrance exam, during the exam she got distracted by the president of jury offhand attitude and she fails. Ten years later, Melanie becomes the former president of the jury’s page turner, waiting patiently to be revenged.
R Rated
Running time: 85 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski
Skills Like This, 2007, Directed by: Monty Miranda. Cast: Spencer Berger and Kerry Kunppe
Max learns he has no future in theater writer. So he decides to rob a bank to prove he is good at something.
R Rated
Running time: 86 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski
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