The Mad Women’s Ball (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Mélanie Laurent
Starring: Benjamin Voisin | Cédric Kahn | Emmanuelle Bercot | Lomane de Dietrich | Lou de Laâge | Mélanie Laurent
Operation Finale (2018)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Chrius Weitz
Starring: Ben Kingsley | Greg Hill | Greta Scacchi | Mélanie Laurent | Michael Aronov | Michael Benjamin Hernandez | Oscar Isaac | Pêpê Rapazote
Thom says: “Musts-see Isaac & Ben Kingsley drove me to watch this but the Israeli capture of the notorious Adolf Eichmann in Argentina years after the end of WWII is tedious. Kingsley hams it up pretty good.
Read the review...Mia and the White Lion (2019)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Gilles de Maistre
Starring: Daniah De Villiers | Langley Kirkwood | Mélanie Laurent | Ryan Mac Lennan
Enemy (2014)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Starring: Isabella Rossellini | Jake Gyllenhaal | Mélanie Laurent | Sarah Gadon
Diane says: “Alas, waste of time! Jake Gyllenhaal meets his doppelganger, but I didn’t find the two very different, despite one Jake wearing a tweed jacket and the other, leather. ENEMY opens with the tweedie already tired and depressed. Unfortunately,
Read the review...Night Train to Lisbon (2013)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Bille August
Starring: August Diehl | Bruno Ganz | Jack Huston | Jeremy Irons | Lena Olin | Martina Gedeck | Mélanie Laurent | Tom Courtenay
Jason says: “Sometimes, there are things that the written word can do that a film can’t. In NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON, Raimund Gregorius (Jeremy Irons) tells how certain sentences in the book at the film’s center had a profound effect
Read the review...The Day I Saw Your Heart (2012)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jennifer Devoldère
Starring: Claude Perron | Florence Loiret Caille | Guillaume Gouix | Mélanie Laurent | Michel Blanc
Thom says: “Another outstanding winner from the ever-reliable Film Movement. This French eclair has a terrific plot with a romantic flair that often seems like the French have a lock on. Eli (Blanc) is celebrating his 60th birthday when he
Read the review...Beginners (2011)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mike Mills
Starring: Christopher Plummer | Ewan McGregor | Goran Visnjic | Kai Lennox | Mélanie Laurent
Chris says: “BEGINNERS puts a novel twist on the coming out narrative: this time, it’s the father, 75-year-old Hal (Christopher Plummer) who tells his son Oliver (Ewan McGregor) that he’s gay. Neither played for farce nor melodrama, the relatively painless
Read the review...Le Tueur (2008)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Cédric Anger
Starring: Gilbert Melki | Grégoire Colin | Mélanie Laurent | Sophie Cattani | Xavier Beauvois
Jason says: “LE TUEUR is the very image of what the phrase ‘French film’ often brings to mind. It’s alternatively talkative and quiet, casually sexual, and deals with matters of life and death with what seems like emotionless detachment. What
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