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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Emily Hampshire | Juliette Binoche | Paul Giamatti | Robert Pattinson | Samantha Morton | Sarah Gadon
Thom says: “David Cronenberg has for many years been one of my top 10 living directors and, in fact, he had eleven consecutive top-rated films with me, a feat only a handful of directors have ever achieved, but his next
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Starring: Agathe Natanson | Gianna Giachertti | Jean-Claude Carrière | Juliette Binoche | William Shimell
Ibad says: “Celebrated Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami marks a new chapter in his long career with CERTIFIED COPY, making a film outside of his home country for the first time. The naturally sunny Tuscan cinematography keeps the film floating light
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Charles Berling | Edith Scob | Isabelle Sayodan | Jérémie Renier | Juliette Binoche
Bruce says: “This film began as a commission from the Musée d’Orsay and then evolved into a different animal from what had originally been envisioned. By the time the film was made the relationship with the d’Orsay evaporated. Hard-core Assayas
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Starring: Albert Dupontel | Fabrice Luchini | François Cluzet | Juliette Binoche | Romain Duris
Bruce says: “PARIS is a kaleidoscopic film, one that tells many stories at once; it is difficult to keep the characters straight and impossible to imagine how they could be related. This statement is more observation than complaint. It is
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Hou Hsiao-hsien
Starring: Fang Song | Hippolyte Girardot | Juliette Binoche | Simon Iteanu
Chris says: “A few years back, Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien traveled to Japan to make CAFÉ LUMIÈRE, a charming, languid tribute to one of that country’s greatest filmmakers, Yasujiro Ozu. In this, his first non-Asian effort, he has crafted the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alexander Payne | Alfonso Cuarón | Christopher Doyle | Ethan Coen | Gus Van Sant | Isabel Coixet | Joel Coen | Olivier Assayas | Tom Tykwer | Walter Salles | Wes Craven
Starring: Fanny Ardant | Gerard Depardieu | Julie Bataille | Juliette Binoche | Leïla Bekhti | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Margo Martindale | Melchior Derouet | Seydou Boro | Steve Buscemi | Willem Dafoe
Bruce says: “Twenty two directors join together for twenty short stories about love, each set in a different arrondissmont in Paris. The directors approach love from different angles. Some are dead serious, some bittersweet and others, quite amusing. By the
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Anthony Minghella
Starring: Jude Law | Juliette Binoche | Robin Wright Penn | Vera Farmiga
Bruce says: “It’s hard to image how a film with so much potential could leave one feeling totally empty but Anthony Minghella’s flat, soulless BREAKING AND ENTERING does just that. Minghella’s script is the basic problem. It is obvious where
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Rating: 4.9
Director: Michael Haneke
Starring: Annie Girardot | Bernard Le Coq | Daniel Auteuil | Juliette Binoche | Maurice Bénichou
Michael says: “Michael Haneke brings to Toronto a most disturbing and challenging film with CACHÉ. This is the type of film that leaves you scratching your head, a pondering what it was you just saw. This is the type of
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Diane Kurys
Starring: Benoît Magimel | Juliette Binoche | Robin Renucci | Stefano Dionisi
Laura says: “In 1830’s Paris, an environment of rich in artistry and hedonism, George Sand (Juliette Binoche, CHOCOLAT) gives a public reading of her second novel, ‘Lelia,’ declaring that it is easier for a man to accuse a woman of
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Rating: 3.8 cats
Director: Patrice Leconte
Starring: Daniel Auteuil | Emir Kusturica | Juliette Binoche
Diane says: “I’m not so sure about this film… I was waiting for the big payoff where we find out the pasts of the Binoche and Auteuil characters. I’d like to see the prequel! “A friend who enjoyed this film
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