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The Godmother and This Is A Robbery

May 19, 2021by CJLeave a Comment on The Godmother and This Is A Robbery
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THE GODMOTHER (aka MAMA WEED)

Australian Cinemas from Thursday 20 May

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Isabelle Huppert can single-handedly left a mediocre film, and she does so with The Godmother, an amiable Parisian crime comedy. Huppert, in every scene, plays a police interpreter who finds herself getting into the marijuana business, putting herself at odds not only with her profession but with her boyfriend, who’s a cop. And guess whom he’s trying to track down?

It’s a neat set-up, the script has many witty moments, and Huppert gamely gives her all. A lurking character comes into her own in the third act, lifting the whole thing towards a conclusion that leaves you feeling, perhaps, that the film was better than it really was, and in a mood to overlook a few of its more ridiculous contrivances.

THIS IS A ROBBERY

Netflix now

This is a Robbery, a new four-part documentary series on Netflix, may exhibit many familiar patterns, tropes and methods – the ‘Netflix true-crime documentary’ is its own genre now – but its fresh in many ways, too. For a start, it’s about robbery, not murder, and art theft at that (how quaint!) Plus, it’s set in Boston, with a whole bunch of Boston characters, and Boston characters are their own thing, with accents and mannerisms and a unique sense of humour.

The theft was at the Isabelle Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in 1990, and it was a doozy, perhaps the biggest art heist of all time. The series is propulsive, compelling and fun. I knew nothing about the robbery, despite living in that region at the time; everything around it makes a hell of a story. Wicked bingeable.

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CJ Johnson is the host of the MOVIELAND podcast (click on CJ's face above to listen and subscribe!) He broadcasts film reviews Tuesday nights on THE NIGHTLIFE on the Australian Broadcasting Network (ABC). He is the president of the Film Critics Circle of Australia.

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