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Hard Truths (2024)

February 3, 2025 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Plenty of hard feelings

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2024, ani nelson, david webber, england, family, hard truths, marianne jean-baptiste, michele austin, mike leigh, movie review, sophia brown, tiff, toxic family relationships, tuwaine barrett

Alma’s Rainbow (1994)

July 9, 2024 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Bridging the generational divide

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1990s, 1994, alma's rainbow, Ayoka Chenzira, bipoc cinema, brooklyn, coming of age, family, family relationships, Kim Weston-Moran, lee dobson, Mizan Kirby, movie review, Victoria Gabrielle-Platt

Broker (2022)

January 23, 2023 Mikkel Frederiksen1 Comment

The ties that bind

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2022, broker, cannes, dong-won gang, family, family relationships, hirokazu koreeda, human trafficking, japan, ji-eun lee, korea, review, song kang-ho

Aftersun (2022)

November 17, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

The sins of our fathers

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2022, charlotte wells, debut feature, family, family relationships, frankie corio, men's mental health, paul mescal, vacation

Belfast (2021)

February 20, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

You can take the boy of out Belfast...

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2021, belfast, caitriona balfe, ciarán hinds, civil war, drama, family, history, jamie dornan, jude hill, judi dench, kenneth branagh, northern ireland

Father (1988)

January 21, 2022 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

The father as an familial fuckboy

Posted in ReviewsTagged 1980s, 1988, drama, Eiji Bandô, family, father, japan, Keisuke Kinoshita, Kin Sugai, Kiwako Taichi, Makoto Nonomura

C’mon C’mon (2021)

December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

About a boy

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020s, 2021, cmon cmon, drama, emotional, family, family relationships, gaby hoffmann, joaquin phoenix, mental illness, mike mills, review, soft, uncle, woody norman

Minari (2020)

November 23, 2021 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

A family tree grows in Arkansas

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2020, 2020s, alan s. kim, american dream, arkansas, asian american, drama, economic anxiety, family, farming, korea, lee isaac chung, midwest, minari, noel cho, oscar winner, steven yeun, yeri han, yu-jung youn

Hereditary (2018)

May 11, 2021May 31, 2021 Mikkel FrederiksenLeave a comment

Aster’s dollhouse of horrors

Posted in ReviewsTagged 2010s, ari aster, cults, family, gabriel byrne, horror, occult, toni colette
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