fantasy – Area 33

The Saga of Sigrid and Isaksen

Trente-trois — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 18:34:07 +0000

TROLL 2 – a film by Roar Uthaug – (SPOILERS) ⁓ Andreas Isaksen (Kim Falck) visits Professor Nora Tidemann at her home in Jötunheimen. (The mythical home of trolls, Jötunheimr, is one of the nine worlds of Norse mythology.) Isaksen …

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The Last Serving Daughter

Trente-trois — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:54:32 +0000

THE KING TIDE – directed by Christian Sparkes – (some spoilers) ⁓ The opening scenes are full of mood and mystery. On an isolated island off the Newfoundland coast, Grace (Lara Jean Chorostecki) has a miscarriage on a stormy night. …

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You With Your Visions And Dreams

Trente-trois — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 16:30:52 +0000

A SUNDAY KIND OF LOVE – a film by Geordie Sabbagh – SPOILERS ⁓ Tracy (Meghan Heffern), significant other to unpublished novelist Adam Loule (Dylan Taylor), has made French toast for breakfast. She sets a plate of it in front …

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Your Songs Remind Me of Swimming

Trente-trois — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 19:02:39 +0000

Les cinq diables (The Five Devils) – directed by Léa Mysius – SPOILERS ⁓ Eight-year-old Vicky Soler (Sally Dramé) lives in a small mountain village several hours north of Marseilles, somewhere between Grenoble and the five Aiguilles du Diable from …

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Things Are Only Impossible, Until They’re Not

Trente-trois — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 16:30:43 +0000

TROLL – directed by Roar Uthaug – (limited spoilers) ⁓ Near Hjerkinn in Norway, workers tunnel through the Dovre mountains to build an extension to the Nordland Railway, which currently ends at Trondheim some 165 kilometers to the north. After …

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The Priest Who Wasn’t There

Trente-trois — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 18:11:44 +0000

CARMEN – a film by Valerie Buhagiar – SPOILERS ⁓ A lighthearted tale about the horrors of big religion, CARMEN takes place in an isolated Maltese village in the 1980s where the police station is across the street from the …

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The Blackbird and the Fireflies

Trente-trois — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 15:17:06 +0000

THE BLAZING WORLD – a film by Carlson Young – SPOILERS ⁓ Two decades ago, on a summer’s day in the deep south, Young Margaret Winter endures complementary traumas. She and her identical twin sister Elizabeth are near the pool …

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The Songs of War and Alpha Yankee

Trente-trois — Mon, 30 May 2022 13:39:07 +0000

MAYDAY – a film by Karen Cinorre – SPOILERS ⁓ This feminist fable is set in the psyche of Anastasia (Grace Van Patten), and as the story begins we find Ana waking up after a friend (Dimitri, played by Théodore …

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When We (Un)dead Awaken…

Trente-trois — Sat, 16 Apr 2022 13:22:18 +0000

KICKING BLOOD – a film by Blaine Thurier – SPOILERS ⁓ Birthdays don’t mean much to immortals, but Anna (Alanna Bale), a vampire of unspecified age, finds herself confronted with a birthday cake, complete with baroque icing and a single …

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A Girl And Her (Rescue) Dog

Trente-trois — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 13:09:31 +0000

SHE NEVER DIED – Directed by Audrey Cummings – Written by Jason Krawczyk – SPOILERS ⁓ She (Olunike Adeliyi) is immortal, but not a vampire although she does manage to impale someone in the course of things. She eats people, …

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