Karen Cudal
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Lyrically languid, Sud Express is a compassionate and heartfelt drama depicting the universal loneliness and futility of life; its bleakness tempered with subtle stirrings of hope. Deftly using the famous Lisbon to Paris train to link six interrelated stories, the film focuses on the experiences of ordinary people living in its surrounds. Enacted in five languages, the film gently probes the politics of difference, visually commenting on the future of a borderless Europe, its cohesiveness currently more superficial than real.
In a poignant tale, Tino (Tino Guimaraes) leaves behind his squabble …
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With its ensemble of idiosyncratic characters including an odd taxidermist, a stressed bodyguard and a wardrobe dwelling tribe, Avida is a gently amusing, at times bewildering film that revels in its own absurdity. Gleefully incoherent, directors Gustave Kervern and Benoe?t Dele’pine’s off-kilter Tati-esque world gradually veers off into a more surrealist milieu. Exquisitely shot in black and white (by cinematographer Hugues Poulain) yet full of grotesque imagery, Avida will divide and perplex audiences.
Opening with a suicidal picador (Fernando Arrabal) morosely spearing a rhino and then himself, a indistinct plot emerges …
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