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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Andrea Arnold
Starring: Barry Keoghan | Franz Rogowski | Jasmine Jobson | Jason Buda | Nykiya Adams
Michael says: “Andrea Arnold has had a really interesting career, including the features, RED ROAD, FISH TANK, WUTHERING HEIGHTS, AMERICAN HONEY, and her most recent, the documentary COW. With BIRD she brings back some of her successful tropes — young
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Director: Ira Sachs
Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos | Arcadi Radeff | Ben Whishaw | Erwan Kepoa Falé | Franz Rogowski
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sebastian Meise
Starring: Alfred Hartung | Anton Von Lucke | Franz Rogowski | Georg Friedrich | Thomas Penn | Thomas Stecher
Michael says: “This German film led with a strong performance, looks back at the post WWII period in Germany, where the Paragraph 175 law, outlawing homosexuality, was still enforced. Hans Hoffman is repeatedly thrown in prison for cruising toilets, or
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Anne Ratte-Polle | Franz Rogowski | Jacob Matschenz | Maryam Zaree | Paula Beer
Michael says: “Apparently German director Petzold, has built up quite a following with his last three films (TRANSIT, PHOENIX, BARBARA) and his latest, UNDINE, is a bit of a change of style for him. An undine is a mythical water
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Director: Thomas Stuber
Starring: Franz Rogowski | Henning Peker | Peter Kurth | Sandra Hüller
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Barbara Auer | Franz Rogowski | Godehard Giese | Lilien Batman | Maryam Zaree | Paula Beer
Chris says: “It’s a canny move to set the 1942 source material in the present day, and shrewder still for director Christian Petzold (PHOENIX) to indulge in stylistic motifs that one would find in a film from that era (most
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Sebastian Schipper
Starring: André Hennicke | Burak Yigit | Franz Rogowski | Frederick Lau | Laia Costa | Max Mauff
Jason says: “In certain hands, VICTORIA might just have been an impressive achievement in logistics for hitting an ambitious set of marks as a single-shot, real-time thriller. It winds up being a fair bit better than that, even if there
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