When their little cheat fails, Alain and Jean-Pierre fail their final high-school exams in English. Their parents deny them the planned vacation to the Côte d’Azur and send them instead to Ramscale in England, to improve their English. However, many other parents had the same idea, so they meet more of their own than English folks and end up more at beach parties than in class. Only with the girls do they seem to have no luck, although they desperately try...
One Night in Miami... did not frame the racism and bigotry as something that could be solved by quality time spent between individuals. Instead, it featured four different legends of Black History together in one room disagreeing for about 2/3 of the film.
A film about family and sacrifice... and carnivorous locusts coming after you.
A homeless girl faces depression and uncertainty during the holidays.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
'Playing with Fire' was clearly a film made for a kid or tween-ish audience. Keeping that in mind, I thought 'Playing with Fire' was alright, though it did portray some harmful stereotypes.
