Tagged: genre: biography

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Marie Krøyer (2012)

Marie Krøyer depicts the relationship between the Danish painter Marie Krøyer (Sørensen) and her husband painter, Peder Severin Krøyer (Sætter-Lassen).

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Sophie Scholl: The Final Days

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days chronicles the last days of Scholl’s life after she’s caught distributing ‘anti-government’ printouts during the not-so-final days of Nazi Germany.

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Zero Dark Thirty

Zero Dark Thirty is a well-made effort from Bigelow that lets down some strong actors thanks to Mark Boal’s script that lacks any real semblance of solid character development.

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Sessions, The (2012)

Mark O’Brien was a journalist/poet who was disabled from the neck down due to polio. Already in his 40s, O’Brien decides to no longer be a virgin with the help of a professional sex surrogate.

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Back to 1942

Back to 1942 chronicles the devastating famine that hit China’s Henan province, which displaced around 10 million people and killed 3 million, right in the middle of the Japanese invasion of China and World War II.