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BROTHERS AND SISTERS.(Buffalo Soldiers; The Magdalene Sisters)(Movie Review)
You could set up a neat double bill with "Buffalo Soldiers" and "The Magdalene Sisters." Each considers a closed and largely monosexual community--one run by soldiers, the other by nuns, most of whom make the soldiers look like a highly scented species of wallflower. Both films deal thornily with a loveless world, and both have snared themselves in trouble as a result. The military refused all assistance to one movie, and the other has reputedly caused dog collars to burst at the Vatican.
"Buffalo Soldiers," co-written and directed by Gregor Jordan, is set on an American Army base near Stuttgart, Germany, in the fateful days of 1989. The story unfolds in ...
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