Raindance Film Festival: The Quiet Maid

“THE QUIET MAID” – RAINDANCE FILM FESTIVAL LONDON 2024 (92 mins) in association with Calladita films and others.INTELLIGENTLY EXAMINING CLASS TENSIONS AND UNFAIRNESS “RESCUED” BY SATIREThis film brings to mind all kinds of conflicating episodes, feelings and behaviours which may echo with many a viewer. Poor Ana (Paula Grimaldo) is a Columbian housekeeper in the Costa Brava trying to fund a close relative’s aspirations to become a doctor while she is underpaid and witnessing spoilt bourgeois people who though speaking the same language, have nothing else in common with her at all.Directed, written and produced by up and coming Miguel … Continue reading Raindance Film Festival: The Quiet Maid

Arnold Schwarzenegger fined €35, 000

Hollywood actor Arnold Schwarzenegger (76)  was ordered to pay a fine of €35, 000 after being detained at Munich Airport and quizzed under tax law over an unregistered Swiss luxury Audermars Piguet watch  which he planned to auction for  a climate charity being held in Kitzbuhel, Austria. His 49-year-old girl friend Heather Milligan and a friend both of whom had accompanied him on a flight from Los Angeles were not allowed to go to the bank with him as he was excited by an officer to withdraw the huge sum of money from a bank. The customs officer Thomas Meister … Continue reading Arnold Schwarzenegger fined €35, 000