Der Bunker (Recorded from Film4)
An odd German film, with echoes of the superior "Dogtooth". A student rents a room at a lake house, only to discover that the location is, in fact, an underground bunker. The family living there have a son they say is 8 (but is evidently far older) and appear to be advised by an alien called Heinrich, who lives in a suppurating wound in the mother's leg. It is a very odd film, and its message is not clear, to me at least. Whilst I quite enjoyed it, and picking up themes I think I recognised, I can't say that I understood it entirely.
An interesting review of it, that gets at some of its odd charm;
http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/der-bunker-review/
Tomboy (Recorded from Film4)
A lovely little French film. A 10 year old moves to a new area during the summer holidays. Asked her name by a girl from a group of local children (using the masculine gender of the words in French) the child answers "Mikael", and so is a boy for the summer - she is actually a girl called Laure. We see how that choice affects her summer (she gets to join in games of football rather than sitting them out, for example) and for the most part, this seems like such a harmless deception that the point that it has to end is a shock. How this happens isn't overly dramatic, and the wrench we feel is largely that we might as a child caught in a deception that we now have to admit to. It's a tender, affectionate, gentle film, perfectly cast, and well played. Well worth catching if you can.
A more eloquent review;
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/tomboy-2012
