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Week of February 28, 2014
The real lotto winners are your relatives. First up…
Nebraska
The first thing you should do after winning a million dollars is fake your own death, leaving no will.
Regrettably, the winning senior in this dramedy visits his family.
Determined to walk from Montana to Nebraska to collect a sweepstakes worth $1 million, Woody (Bruce Dern) is repeatedly picked-up by police and returned to his wife (June Squibb).
Despite the mail-in prize’s bogus appearance, Woody’s son David (Will Forte) agrees to drive him to Lincoln.
Along the way they visit Woody’s hometown, where his relations and his rival (Stacy Keach) vie for his newfound fortune.
Earnest by nature, this black and white road movie features many subtle yet superb performances from an unlikely cast.
That understated quality also applies to the surprising amount of comedy that punctuates the overall depressing narrative.
Incidentally, nothing makes children want to take care of their aging parents more than their parents winning the lottery. Yellow Light
Blue is the Warmest Colour
When women have sex with one another do they take turns faking their orgasms?
Thankfully, the Sapphic lovers in this drama answer that question, and more.
Despite attempts to date the opposite sex, Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) can’t fight her attraction to the same-sex - specifically a blue haired artist she encounters on the street.
Serendipitously, at her first lesbian bar Adèle meets the indigo girl, Emma (Léa Seydoux), and they begin a torrid love affair.
Over time, the pair makes a life with one another. But Adèle’s housewife routine isn’t enough for Emma (Léa Seydoux) whose art is starting to sell.
With lesbian love scenes that rival most porn, this French comic-book adaptation uses the waning intensity as a metaphor for the failing relationship.
Unfortunately, that relationship never feels authentic enough to care about. Neither is the 3-hour running time.
Incidentally, in an all-female relationship who gets to nags who? Yellow Light
***Finger in the Dyke***
Show Me Love
The upside to women dating each other is that it takes them both 3 hours to get ready.
Needles to say, there’s no impatient man waiting on the ladies in this drama.
When Elin (Alexandra Dahlström) and her sister Jessica (Erica Carlson) attend Agnes’ (Rebecka Liljeberg) 16th birthday, Jessica dares her sister to kiss Agnes, who is rumoured to be a lesbian.
Embarrassed and suicidal over the incident, Agnes is saved from death by Elin, who is still unwilling to admit her true feelings.
It’s not until she has given herself to a boy (Mathias Rust), does Elin realize her desires for Agnes.
However, her outing won’t a private affair.
Capturing the innocence and beauty of young love, this Swedish film doesn’t exploit the same-sex relationship for cheap thrills but for a commonality we all share.
Ironically, the greatest contributors to the lesbian movement have been sexually inept teenage boys.
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