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/ 19 December 2006
The true story of Homer’s space odyssey, which inspired October Sky, may leave you with tears in your eyes, says Philip French.
Dysfunctional families and child abuse have obsessed film-makers this past couple of years and they provided the subject matter for the movies that shared the Special Jury Prize at Cannes in 1998, Claude Miller’s Class Trip and Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen (Celebration). These are, however, markedly different works. Miller’s picture is an elegant thriller, Vinterberg’s a […]