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London Film Festival 2009: THE LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK Review

For anyone who's ever had a relative ask something unreasonable of them under the guise of familial duty, this one's for you. Like Festen, that milestone of family dysfunction, this absurdist Dutch satire on family values sounded exactly like my...

TIFF 09: THE LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK Review

Emma Blank is dying.  And nobody seems particularly bothered, really.  Nobody except Emma herself, and for her part she's determined to milk every ounce of power she can out of her imminent demise.  She is cold, demanding, fickle.  She is...