Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ione Hernández
Starring: Aritz Kortabarria | Carlota Keiko | Elena Anaya | Emma Suárez | León Martínez
Michael says: “Spanish films SISTERS (HERMANAS), written and directed by Ione Hernández, was a competently-made film with a screenplay that lacked the needed emotional impact to make it really succeed. Two sisters, Chelo and Marta, bring their families together to
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Rating: 4.4
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Antonio Banderas | Eduard Fernández | Elena Anaya | Jan Cornet | Marisa Paredes | Roberto Álamo
Bruce says: “THE SKIN I LIVE IN is an adaptation of the French novel Mygale by Thierry Jonquet. Judging from what I have read about the novel, Almodóvar’s adaptation is a very loose one. For a decade I have wished
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Fred Cavayé
Starring: Claire Perot | Elena Anaya | Gérard Lanvin | Gilles Lellouche | Mireille Perrier | Roschdy Zem
Jason says: “POINT BLANK is not a French remake of the classic 1967 John Boorman flick that starred Lee Marvin; that would require being mean down to its very bones, and this one is a shade or two warmer than
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jean-François Richet
Starring: Cécile de France | Elena Anaya | Gerard Depardieu | Gilles Lellouche | Roy Dupuis | Vincent Cassel
Jason says: “The story of French outlaw Jacques Mesrine is a grand, sprawling one, so large that Jean-François Richet felt the need to split it into two films in order to do it justice. Watching the first one, covering Mesrine’s
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