The shape of water – La forme de l’eau / Guillermo del Toro – 2018
Languages: English and French. Subtitles: French and English for the hearing impaired
DVD (442)
Guillermo del Toro’s “Shape of Water” is a visually ravishing fantasy romance. It is a Beauty and the Beast fable where both get to be beautiful and neither has to be beastly. The two of them are part of a world that Del Toro has dreamed into existence with authority, confidence and miraculous detail.
Qu’est-ce qu’on attend ? / Marie-Monique Robin – 2018
Languages: French. Subtitles: English and German
DVD ( 443)
Ungersheim, the star of this new film by Marie-Monique Robin, is a village in the Alsace in north-eastern France which is home to a remarkable Mayor, Jean-Claude Mensch, to some extraordinary people doing extraordinary things, and to an experiment in what Transition can achieve, one that is increasingly attracting attention from around the world.
That sugar land / Damon Gameau – 2018
Language : English and French Subtitles: French and French for the hearing impaired
DVD (441)
Australian documentary maker Damon Gameau cracks open the refined sugars hidden in so-called ‘healthy’ packaged food in a gonzo activist mission to map his own mental and physical disintegration.
Running parallel was a determination to package the experiment in fun and broadly accessible ways. Gameau may have taken to heart Oscar Wilde’s quip that if you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh otherwise they will kill you.
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