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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.25
Director: Cristi Puiu
Starring: Doru Ana | Ion Fiscuteanu | Monica Barladeanu
Bruce says: “Dante Remus Lazarescu (Ion Fiscuteanu) wakes up one morning with a splitting headache and severe nausea. A widower for ten years, he is now alone since his daughter has left Romania, emigrating to Canada. Living with three cats
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Tommy Lee Jones
Starring: Barry Pepper | Julio Cedilo | Tommy Lee Jones
Carolyn says: “Though it was only 2 hours long it seemed quite a bit longer. I think it suffers from too many plot twists that don’t really add up to anything in the end. Also despite the fact that it
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Starring: Jim Broadbent | John Malkovich | Max Minghella | Sophia Myles
Hilary says: “Director Terry Zwigoff’s and graphic novelist Daniel Clowes’ latest collaboration is a string of character sketches strung out with a third-rate CSI-style script. Max Minghella, the second coming of Mark Ruffalo, is all delicate features and doe eyes
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Judy Irving
Bruce says: “Mark Bittner arrived in San Francisco a couple of decades ago hoping to make it big in the music business. He wrote his own songs and performed in local watering holes. Somewhere along the line Bittner realized that
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Ye Lou
Starring: Tôru Nakamura | Ye Liu | Yuanzheng Feng | Ziyi Zhang
Bruce says: “Costume dramas are not my favorite genre especially ones such as PURPLE BUTTERFLY that have the look and feel of a Banana Republic ad. That may sound a bit harsh, but I have serious reservations as to whether
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Susanne Bier
Starring: Connie Nielsen | Nikolaj Lie Kaas | Sarah Juel Werner | Ulrich Thomsen
Michael says: “Susanne Bier made a splash among Chlotrudis members with 2002’s OPEN HEARTS. In BROTHERS she creates a situation involving Michael (Ulrich Thomsen), a major in the Danish army who is being sent to Afghanistan as part of a
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Zhang Ke Jia
Starring: Alla Shcherbakova | Hongwei Wang | Jue Jing | Taisheng Chen | Yiqun Huang | Zhong-wei Jiang | Zhongwei Jiang
Bruce says: “‘Give us a day, we’ll show you the world,’ is the slogan of The World, a Beijing theme park where replicas of world famous monuments sit side-by-side usually downscaled to give consistency to the overall ambiance of the
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Guy Maddin
Bruce says: “This film is wildly innovative and original, a stunning success creatively speaking. It is unique. Filmed in fuzzy sepia and silver tones for the most part, the film lapses into moments of strange color, the returns to the
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Rating: 3.25
Director: Jack Lewis | John Greyson
Starring: Kerry Norton | Kristen Thomson | Neil Sandilands | Rouxnet Brown | Shaun Smyth | Tessa Jubber
Bruce says: “‘Tis a pity that John Greyson is not a stage director for his sensibilities are much better suited for live drama than for the screen. I would love to see him stage a major production for the ailing
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Rating: 3.25
Chris says: “After reading Gerald Peary’s scathing review earlier this year in his Cannes 2004 report (likening it to the wretched LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL!), I feared the worst for this biopic about the young Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. “It’s not nearly
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