The Auction (2013) Film Review — Selective Focus Family is defined as the primary social group, but it is also a financial alliance. Conflict arises when one member, consequences be damned, appropriates more of a family’s cash reserves than is consi...

"The Auction", from filmmaker Sebastien Pilote, is the topic of this week's article on Selective Focus. Pilote's style is in the same vein as the Dardenne brothers and Stephane Brize.
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Mother of Mine (2005) Film Review — Selective Focus Watching “Mother of Mine” (2005), I could not help but think of the Ukrainian children forcibly removed from their homeland during the ongoing war initiated by Russia. There is obviously a difference ...

New article posted on Selective Focus today. A World War II story that is still fresh and relevant today. #FilmSky #Finland
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Afloat (2023) Film Review — Selective Focus In March of 2025, three Yale University professors announced they were leaving the United States to live, and teach, in Canada. While the effects of the nascent brain drain have yet to make an impact ...

New article posted on my Selective Focus site today.
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Noni Hazlehurst - Australia’s Mother — Selective Focus It should not be inferred, however, that Hazlehurst’s maternal roles are stereotypical or limiting for the actress. Her character in “Mother”, for example, is a troubled homeless woman. Two Aussie fil...

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