JOSEPH AND MARY
Watchable. A typical Biblical story: quiet, correct, touching and seen a hundred of times already.
PUSTINA - EPISODES 1 & 2
Watchable. Filth rules - both physical (no one washes their hands after using the toilet) and moral. Made to imitate Scandinavian crime series but with focus on the lower class. The second episode is more interesting than the first, you know already who is who so you can start guessing whodunnit. Yet, the Pustina town is made to look so ordinary it's not a must see. So while the girl's disappearance is intriguing, seeing the serial means watching lowlives for 8 hours in total.
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TONY (THE CHOCOLATE CASE)
Recommended. Time to face it: I'm guilty of slavery. It turns out that cocoa plantations are ridden with slave labour of children who don't get paid, are starved and whipped. Dutch Tony Chocolonely brand was set up to eradicate it. It's growing and, as the director said during the Q&A after the screening, some regular brands have vanished from the market since so that's optimistic. But most of all, the humble beginnings, when journalist Teun van de Keuken started investigating the chocolate production ethics, are hilarious. The film is very infomative, e.g. debunks the myth that Fair Trade equals ethical, transparent and monitored. So altogether it's clever, funny and disquieting at the same time.
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