Released on: 2005
Rating: 7.10
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Life, Above All – review
At the centre of this plain, extremely touching film is a heart-rending performance from Khomotso Manyaka as Chandra, a 12-year-old girl holding her family together in a South African township at a time when poverty, Aids and fading national hopes are tearing communities apart. Without anything smug, ingratiating or sentimental about her, Chandra sets a convincing and necessary example to the stumbling adults around her, and the scenes with her sick mother, her siblings, her prejudiced neighbours and especially a girl her own age driven into prostitution are handled with insight and restraint.
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Angels of Evil – review
Michele Placido's ambitious epic crime film Romanzo Criminale covered 30 turbulent years in the lives of a group of working-class Roman kids from the 1960s to the 90s in the manner of Rosi, Coppola, Scorsese and Leone. His new film, a biography of the reckless Milanese Dillinger-type bankrobber Renato Vallanzasca (played by Kim Rossi Stuart), is much less good, and surprisingly poor on the larger social context. Vallanzasca, a hardman who never made any excuses for his conduct, exposed the incompetence and corruption of the Italian criminal justice system and has been behind bars for 15 years or more now.
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