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Review: Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha fails to capture the essence of suppressed emotions, instead this falls more into cliché and leaves viewer’s unaffected. Think baked potatoes without the toppings. For a holiday screen romance, try the flipside – an Asian’s perspective of American and a love story with Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain…
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Memoirs of a Geisha



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Memoirs of a Geisha fails to capture the essence of suppressed emotions, instead this falls more into cliché and leaves viewer’s unaffected. Think baked potatoes without the toppings. For a holiday screen romance, try the flipside – an Asian’s perspective of American and a love story with Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain…

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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