Tag Archives: loneliness

THE MOLE AGENT QUESTIONS

Posted on April 29, 2021 by rinaross

As an old couple under lockdown for months we have been viewing an awful lot of TV (films, series,   documentaries, zooms) and had to bend to each other’s choices….  On my first viewing  I did not realise that The … Continue reading →

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ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL.

Posted on October 30, 2016 by rinaross

The film I chose for the old women in film group this month was Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (1974) . I saw it a long time ago with a group in the context of old women in film but at … Continue reading →

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A WOMAN’S TALE : an overview

Posted on July 25, 2016 by rinaross

I have written about Paul Cox’s Innocence (2000) three years ago  but I have wanted to consider  this great director’s   A Woman’s Tale ( 1991) for a very long time. In June this year Paul Cox died at the age … Continue reading →

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TATIE DANIELLE (1990) The little old woman

Posted on February 26, 2015 by rinaross

” I am a lonely old woman in the hands of a lunatic.” Tatie Danielle  It is difficult to write about Tatie Danielle.  A film hard to categorise. It is not black comedy nor satire as it is sometimes described being … Continue reading →

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ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER LIFE. ANOTHER FILM?

Posted on June 9, 2012 by rinaross

A difficult film, a very difficult film for me. When I saw it at the London Film Festival I disliked it intensely and that was the reaction of at least one member of the audience at the Lexi when I … Continue reading →

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