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by Frances Stannard | 3:50 am, 17/10/2011
Director: Anh Hung Tran (3.5/5)
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Director: Tusi Tamasese
by Lauren Hayes | 3:40 am, 17/10/2011
Director: Shawn Levy (3/5)
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Director: Raja Gosnell (3.5/5)
by | 5:19 am, 10/10/2011
Every year, a brave few enter their amateur films into the OUSA Mothras, seeking fame, glory, and prestigious Mothra awards. All of the films will be screened between October 11 and 14 at the Church Cinema, Dundas St, but for now, we present our pick of the bunch.
Micmacs (2009)
by Daniel Hunter | 11:20 pm 11/07/2010
Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet Rialto (4/5)
I've never been to Paris, and Micmacs does nothing to disprove my theory that the city is laden with visual splendour which could have only been designed by some sort of film-set deity. Alongside the grimily beautiful Parisian locations, the film's characters are something from the deepest nooks of Jeunet's incredible imagination. Bazil, our protagonist, strives to bring down the ammunition manufacturers who built the bullet that ended up in his brain as a result of an armed scuffle outside his video store. He was lucky enough to live through the ordeal but unlucky enough to lose his job. He begins busking (as every broke French person does) and fate brings him to a collective of inventors who turn rubbish into beautiful inventions. He enlists them to help him bring down the ammunition manufacturers. If it sounds quirky, it is. The bulk of the story is what follows on from here. All I can suggest is if you like beautiful pictures, French humour, witty traps, wonderful story or escapism then do yourself a solid and check this out.
