Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Jon Stewart Stars: Gael Garcia Bernal, Kim Bodina, Dimitri Leonidas, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Haluk Bilginer, Golshifteh Farahani. In 2009 Iranian born journalist Mazaar Bahari (played by Gael Garcia Bernal) returned home to Tehran to cover the upcoming elections for Newsweek magazine, and also to visit his widowed mother (veteran Iranian actress… Continue Reading »
BAD EDUCATION
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Pedro Almodovar Stars: Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez. Two boys, abused by a priest in a parochial school, are reunited some two decades later. Enrique (Fele Martinez) is an acclaimed film director, while Ignacio (Mexican heart throb Gael Garcia Bernal, recently seen as the young Che Guevara in The Motorcycle… Continue Reading »
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Walter Salles Stars: Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna. A sort of Latin-American Easy Rider? In 1952 two young Argentinean medical students embarked on an ambitious 8000km trip through South America, ostensibly to see their country before settling down to their chosen careers. It was an epic motorcycle journey… Continue Reading »
