A story of overcoming

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A story of overcoming
Genova
Starring: Hope Davis, Colin Firth
and Catherine Keener. Directed
by Michael Winterbottom.
Directed by: Ana Kokkinos.
Rated: M
94 mins.
Whiteout
Starring Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel
Macht and Tom Skerritt. Directed
by Dominic Sena.
Rated MA 15+
Under all the snow and ice and
the exotic Antarctica settings, this
is a rather routine murder mystery
plus theft.
Review by Fr Peter Malone MSC
THERE are so many films that
don’t leap off the advertisement as
‘must see’ but, if you happen into
them or, later, see them on television or rent them, you are glad that
you did.
Not everyone will like them. It
depends on interests and moods.
Genova is one of those films. I am
glad I saw it.
The Genova of the title is indeed
the city anglicised as Genoa.
It is not the most beautiful of
Italian cities but it has a great deal
of history (Columbus, trade...) and
atmosphere.
By the end of the film, we do feel
that we have visited and lived in the
city for a while and have a feel for it
and the surrounding sea and beaches
and mountains.
Michael Winterbottom makes all
kinds of genre films (political like
The Road to Guantanomo, In This
World), dramas (Wonderland), classic comedy (A Cock and Bull Story).
This time it is a family drama.
When the mother (Hope Davis)
is killed in a car accident, the father
Inspiring: Colin Firth and Perla Haney-Jardine in Genova.
(Colin Firth) decides to take his two
daughters from Chicago to Genova
where he will lecture at the university, with the help of an old friend
(Catherine Keener) and the two girls
will go to school there.
There is a lot of edginess because
the younger daughter blames herself
for her mother’s death and suffers
from nightmares and sees her mother
sometimes in the streets.
The older daughter blames her sister and is at that precocious teen age
where she wants to be with boys, lies
to her father and pressurises her sister
to conceal her behaviour.
Father and daughters are still
grieving and, despite counselling,
have not come to terms at all with
their mother’s death and absence.
Genova is both a welcoming city for
them to make a new start but the cam-
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1. Spoke of a wagon swaying with newly cut grain. –
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2. Said God would jiggle Israel as one jiggles the sieve.
– Am 9:9
3. He said: “Will two walk together unless they have met
by appointment?” – Am 3:3
4. Accused of conspiracy by Amaziah, priest of Bethel.
–Am 7: 10-13
5. Said Samaritians would go into exile beyond Damascus. – Am 5: 27
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6. Said God would do nothing unless he revealed it first
to his servants. – Am 1:1
7. Prophesised two years “before the earthquake.”
– Am 1:1
8. A prophet from Tekoa. – Am 1:1
9. He went into hiding from the face of Jehovah. – Ge 3:8
10. The first man who became a living soul and who was
created in God’s image. – 1 Co 15:45; Ge 1:27
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Starring Maria Heiskanen, Mikael
Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen.
Directed by Jan Troell.
Rated M
This is quite a melancholic film.
The subject is a working class girl,
Maria. She wins a camera in a
competition and her young man
wants to have it. She jokes that he
can have it only if they marry. They
do. She forgets about the camera
until many years (and children)
later.
era keeps reminding us that it can also
be sinister, with its narrow alleys and
darkness where people can get lost.
Most audiences will be able to
identify with the situations and find
a character that they empathise with
and understand.
“Gone about as far as it can go”
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