The Almond and the Seahorse (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Celyn Jones | Tom Stern
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Meera Syal | Rebel Wilson | Ruth Madeley | Trine Dyrholm
Sundown (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michel Franco
Starring: Albertine Kotting McMillan | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Henry Goodman | Iazua Larios | Samuel Bottomley | Tim Roth
Diane says: “A slow burn of a mystery, a puzzle for the viewer, with Tim Roth and Charlotte Gainsbourg paired excellently. Mexican director Michel Franco opens with some intriguing images of an upscale Acapulco vacation: freshly caught fish gasping; crashing
Read the review...Suzanna Andler (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Benoît Jacquot
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Julia Roy | Nathan Willcocks | Niels Schneider | Sandrine Rivet
La Bûche (2000)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Danièle Thompson
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Christopher Thompson | Claude Rich | Emmanuelle Béart | Françoise Fabian | Jean-Pierre Darroussin | Sabine Azéma
Philip says: “Over the past ten years, LA BÛCHE has become a perennial holiday favorite of mine. A score by Michel Legrand containing classic Christmas songs from the 50’s and 60’s, family dysfunction, honesty, anger, and of course a lot
Read the review...3 Hearts (2015)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
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
Read the review...Nymphomaniac Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 (2014)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lars Von Trier
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Christian Slater | Jamie Bell | Jean-Marc Barr | Mia Goth | Shia LaBeouf | Sophie Kennedy Clark | Stacy Martin | Stellan Skarsgård | Udo Kier | Uma Thurman | Willem Dafoe
Kyle says: “NYMPHOMANIAC Vol. 1 & Vol. 2 are recent works by the most provocative director on the current international cinema scene. Lars von Trier has been thrice recognized by Chlotrudis with nominations for Original Screenplay for DOGVILLE (2003), and for
Read the review...The Tree (2011)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Julie Bertuccelli
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Christian Byers | Marton Csokas | Morgana Davies | Tom Russell
Chris says: “In rural Queensland, Australia, Peter, a father of four suffers a fatal heart attack while driving and hits the enormous tree next to his house. Soon, his wife Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg) and 8-year-old daughter Simone (Morgana Davies) sense
Read the review...Melancholia (2011)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.4
Director: Lars Von Trier
Starring: Alexander Skarsgård | Brady Corbet | Cameron Spurr | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Kirsten Dunst | Udo Kier
Jason says: “As hooks go, it’s tough to beat the one Lars von Trier uses to start MELANCHOLIA: The world ends in such slow motion that time almost seems to be standing still. It’s a fantastic scene of planetary destruction,
Read the review...City of Your Final Destination (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: James Ivory
Starring: Anthony Hopkins | Charlotte Gainsbourg | Hiroyuki Sanada | Laura Linney | Omar Metwally
Michael says: “I am a huge fan of Peter Cameron’s novel The City of Your Final Destination, so I was looking forward to James Ivory’s adaptation of the same name. The main story follows the journey of a young man
Read the review...Antichrist (2009)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Lars Von Trier
Starring: Charlotte Gainsbourg | Willem Defoe
Thom says: “I’m flat out going to warn you, without giving away any plot details, do not see this film if you are the tiniest bit disturbed by graphic torture scenes. It comes very close to being the most despairing
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