A warning: This movie is all about the journey. There is no payoff in the end so don't stick around hoping for a nice tidy conclusion. Instead, you will feel the same frustration as the teacher does which I think is exactly what the director was going for in this movie. Having that out of the way, the basic premise is a school dealing with a thief. The main character (a teacher) gets strong evidence but not conclusive proof as to who the thief is. Mayhem then ensues as the teacher's life spir...
Read Full ReviewGerman drama film directed by İlker Çatak, and that is nominated for best international movie for the 96th Academy Awards. Leonie Benesch as Carla Nowak, and idealist Polish immigrant teacher have a suspicion of theft at her 1st grade school raised by one of the student towards another (immigrant Turk) student. After this incident and the reunion with the father of the boys she withstands another small theft at the teacher lounge, and after that she decides to mount a trap to confirm her s...
Read Full ReviewIn recent years, we’ve all seen examples of incidents that start out comparatively small but that quickly get blown all out of proportion – and unreasonably so at that. As developments emerge and explode under these conditions, they often lose all sense of rationality and soon take on lives of their own, expanding into tangential and seemingly unrelated areas that have virtually nothing to do with the event that spawned them. And, in the end, we’re left with outcomes that seem inappropriate and ...
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As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
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Eric returns home for a short visit and finds himself caught between reuniting with his sisters and chasing a victory with his old poker group. As the trip extends, Eric finds it increasingly difficul...
Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is conv...
Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organiza...
by Marvin Miller
by Marvin Miller
by Marvin Miller
by Marvin Miller
by Marvin Miller
by Marvin Miller
by Marvin Miller
by Marvin Miller
by Marvin Miller
