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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Zhang Yimou
Starring: Haocun Liu | Wei Fan | Xiaochuan Li | Yan Li | Yi Zhang
Chris says: “SHADOW was Zhang Yimou’s best film in years; this follow-up is not as innovative, but it does feel faintly reminiscent of his smaller-scale 1990s dramas (his most fertile period), if perhaps a little goofier. Set in a remote area
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: James Morosini
Starring: Afrim Gjonbalaj | J.P. Edwards | Rachel Dratch | Seamus Callahan | Sheri Fairchild
Chris says: “If it seems outlandish that a young man’s estranged father could ‘catfish’ him as a young adult by posing as a young girl on a fake social media profile, well, it happened to actor/writer/director James Morosini and he’s
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Andrea Arnold
Chris says: “An admittedly tedious watch at times, although Andrea Arnold knows what she’s doing–her method allows for considering all the ethical and philosophical implications of what she’s showing us long after the film is over. They linger nearly as
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Radu Muntean
Starring: Alex Bogdan | Gabor Bondi | Ilona Brezoianu | Luca Sabin | Maria Popistasu | Toma Cuzin
Chris says: “Recommended to those whose idea of a monster in a horror film is a benign, stubborn, senile old man who repeatedly shits himself and won’t shut the heck up. 3.5 cats“
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Ronald Unterberger
Starring: Anna Pfingsten | Anne Roemeth | Beatrice Bergner | Cornelia Werner | Marc Dresander | Marie Mayer
Michael says: “This curious German film has a decidedly low-budget, independent feel that most of the European films we get lacks. They’re usually more polished, or ‘studio’ if you will. While occasionally this face exposes some clumsiness in DIE GRENZE,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Franka Potente
Starring: Aisling Franciosi | Derek Richardson | Jake McLaughlin | James Jordan | Kathy Bates | Lil Rel Howery | Stephen Root
Michael says: “What’s that, you say? Franka Potente of RUN, LOLA, RUN fame? Yep! That Frank Potente. This was a surprise to me, and I must say a rather refreshingly positive surprise. Marvin returns to his home town after 17
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Bruce La Bruce
Starring: Alexandra Petrachuk | Andreas Apergis | Angèle Coutu | Félix-Antoine Duval | Marcello Arroyo | Mimi Côté | Tania Kontoyanni
Michael says: “Never one to play it safe, writer/director Bruce La Bruce (GERONTOPHILLIA; OTTO; OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE; HUSTLER WHITE) pokes at heteronormative judgement, and homosexual narcissism in a classic b-movie disguised as an art-house indie. Dominic is a beautiful young
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Radu Jude
Starring: Alexandru Potocean | Andi Vasluianu | Claudia Ieremia | Katia Pascariu | Nicodim Ungureanu | Olimpia Malai
Brett says: “BAD LUCK BANGING… is quite the enigmatic little film that plays out in an avant-garde format. Prior to viewing the film, I made a mistake in seeing a very small blurb about the film that described its narrative.
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Céline Sciamma
Starring: Gabrielle Sanz | Joséphine Sanz | Margot Abascal | Nina Meurisse | Stéphane Varupenne
Diane says: “Director Celine Sciamma (GIRLHOOD, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE) disappoints with a slight take on a mother-daughter relationship. Eight-year-old Nelly tries to understand her mother’s depression, especially now after the death of her grandmother. On the long
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Sterlin Harjo
Starring: Casey Camp-Horinek | Jon Proudstar | Julian Ballentyne | Laura Spencer | Richard Way Whitman | Zoe Leigh Hopkins
Michael says: “After hearing some praise about the new streaming television series, RESERVATION DOGS, which director Harjo executive produced as well as wrote and directed for, I decided to dip into his 2009 film, BARKING WATER, before starting in on
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