A Separation – A married couple are faced with a difficult decision, to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimers. A series of implausible events make for one crisis after another. I thought the plot stretched credibility but the critics are mad for A Separation thinking it’s a lock for best foreign picture Oscar this year . . . maybe I am missing something. A Separation has a limited U.S. opening the last week of the year. [ RT ]
London River – I liked this story of a couple checking on their missing children in the wake of the 2005 terror attack on London. These two strangers, who couldn’t be more different, come to discover their respective children had been living together at the time of the attacks. This leads to the dismissal of few stereotypes being discarded by each parent. As far as I can tell this 2009 film was never released in the U.S., outside of a few film festivals, which is to bad . . . because London River is original and unpredictable. My copy was recorded off of German television. [ RT ]
