Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Marie Kreutzer
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Jella Haase | Laurence Rupp | Léa Seydoux | Sylvester Groth
Michael says: “Marie Kreutzer’s GENTLE MONSTER could have been a great film, but by tackling a very difficult subject with a procedurally straight-forward tone undercuts some of the emotion. Still, there was a lot to like about this film about
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Director: Léa Domenach
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Denis Podalydès | Laurent Stocker | Michel Vuillermoz | Sara Giraudeau
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Léa Domenach
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Denis Podalydès | Laurent Stocker | Michel Vuillermoz | Sara Giraudeau
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Christophe Honoré
Starring: Benjamin Biolay | Catherine Deneuve | Chiara Mastroianni | Fabrice Luchini | Nicole Garcia
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jacques Demy
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Jacques Perrin | Jean Marais | Micheline Presle
Hilary says: “I encourage the local membership to go see DONKEY SKIN (Peau d’âne) at the Brattle this week — it’s a trippy good time! “Stylistically, Jacques Demy’s adaptation of a 17th-century fairy tale is somewhere between CAMELOT and WILLY WONKA
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Clémentine Grenier | Ethan Hawke | Juliette Binoche
Michael says: “Hirokazu Koreeda goes to France and assembles an international cast including Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, and Ethan Hawke, but sticks close to his favorite theme of family. In this case it’s the strained relationship between a mother, Fabienne,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Starring: Benoît Poelvoorde | Catherine Deneuve | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Chiara Mastroianni
Kyle says: “Opening Night of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s series ‘20th Rendez-Vous with French Cinema’ was Benoît Jacquot’s 3 HEARTS in its U.S. Premiere. Those who like their French films about doomed affairs of the heart intense and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Emmanuelle Bercot
Starring: Camille | Catherine Deneuve | Claude Gensac | Gérard Garouste | Nemo Schiffman
Jason says: “At one point in ON MY WAY, Catherine Deneuve’s Bettie looks at the kid singing some English-language song in the passenger seat, then at the freeway outside the window, and grumbles that she feels like she’s in America.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Valeria Sarmiento
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Isabelle Huppert | Jemima West | John Malkovich | José Afonso Pimentel | Mathieu Amalric | Miaris Paredes | Nuno Lopes | Soraia Chaves
Thom says: “This historical epic was originally a project for the great Chilean director Raoul Ruiz and was actually in pre-production when Ruiz passed away. The project was then handed to long-time Ruiz collaborator and wife Sarmiento. The film concerns
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Rating: 1 cat
Director: Yannis Smaragdis
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Evgeniy Stychkin | John Cleese | Juan Diego Botto | Sebastian Koch
Thom says: “This historical drama is about Greek hero Ioannas Varvakis who rose from being a Greek pirate to an international Russian caviar baron who has the ear of Catherine the Great. Later in life he returns to Greece to
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