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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Maryam Touzani
Starring: Ahmed Boulane | Carmen Maura | María Alfonsa Rosso | Marta Etura | Sanae Regragui
Michael says: “Having spent her entire life in Tangier, Morocco, and the past several decades alone since her husband died Maria Angeles has established herself in her colorful, vibrant community. She is stunned when her adult daughter, facing divorce and
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Director: Paco León
Starring: Ayax Pedrosa | Carmen Machi | Carmen Maura | Dora Postigo | Luis Bermejo
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Paul Meins
Starring: Antonio de la Torre | Carmen Maura | Edward James Olmos | Francesc Orella | Jessica Marais | Paz Vega | Quim Gutiérrez
Michael says: “Family saga about a multi-generational Spanish family with a successful wine business who move their family business to Australia. The film is told in flashback, when a young man returns home to Spain and discovers that the groundskeeper
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mikael Buch
Starring: Amira Casar | Carmen Maura | Clément Sibony | Jarkko Niemi | Jean-François Stévenin | Nicolas Maury
Thom says: “This is director Buch’s 1st film and there’s a lot of oomph to the production that mostly works. Ruben is a young, gay. French Jew living in Finland with his Finnish partner, Teemu. He works as a postman
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
Starring: Alden Ehrenreich | Carmen Maura | Klaus Maria Brandauer | Maribel Verdú | Vincent Gallo
Diane says: “A hodgepodge from Coppola deals with creative genius and fraternal rivalry. The unevenness shows in the personnel: one character is wonderfully warm and realistic; a few are absurd; another is full of bombast, signifying nothing. Lead Vince Gallo
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Blanca Portillo | Carmen Maura | Chus Lampreave | Lola Dueñas | Penélope Cruz | Yohana Cobo
Bruce says: “Two sisters each harbor a dreadful secret. Glamorous sister Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) is trying to cover up her husband’s murder; mousy sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) is fearful that friends and family will discover that the ghost of her
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Amos Gitai
Starring: Carmen Maura | Hana Laszlo | Hiam Abbass | Natalie Portman
Michael says: “FREE ZONE is Amos Gitai’s latest film, illuminating life in Israel and all its strife from a decidedly female point of view. The story revolves around three women, an Israeli, an American living in Israel, and a Palestinian
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Álex de la Iglesia
Starring: Carmen Maura | Eduardo Antuña | Jesús Bonilla | María Asquerino | Marta Fernández Muro | Paca Gabaldón
Michael says: “I try to see any film that Carmen Maura appears in that is released in the States. I still think Pedro Almodóvar’s best films were during the Carmen Maura period. Carmen has done some mediocre films since she
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alejandro Agresti
Starring: Carmen Maura | Julieta Cardinali | Rodrigo Noya
Michael says: “This lovely Argentinian film certainly feels like the filmmaker looking back on his childhood (I actually have no absolutely nothing about this filmmaker, so I don’t know if that’s true or not.) Alejandro Agresti has written and directed
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