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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Lynn Hershmon-Lessman
Starring: James Urbaniak | Jeremy Davies | Karen Black | Thomas Jay Ryan | Tilda Swinton
Michael says: “What better way to finish off the terrific movie weekend at the Boston International Festival of Women’s Cinema than a science fiction fling with the incomparable Tilda Swinton playing geeky scientist Rosetta Stone, and her three clones, Ruby,
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Roy Andersson
Starring: Lars Nordh | Stefan Larsson | Sten Andersson | Torbjörn Fahlström
Michael says: “This bizarrely entrancing Swedish film is director Roy Andersson’s 8th, and his 1st since 1991! Working with a largely amateur cast, SONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR is a visually stunning, with strangely humorous moments… but what does it
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Nanni Moretti
Starring: Giuseppe Sanfelice | Jasmine Trinca | Laura Morante | Nanni Moretti
Ellen says: “It is tempting to compare THE SON’S ROOM to IN THE BEDROOM since the theme is a family dealing with the death of their teenage son, however, the way that this film elicits your emotions is very different.
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Babak Payami
Starring: Cyrus Abidi | Nassim Abdi
Michael says: “Babak Payami’s SECRET BALLOT is an interesting Iranian film dealing with a nation’s population and its ability to change the way things work. A box is dropped from a helicopter to an army guard post where two soldiers
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Rosanna Arquette
Michael says: “Rosanna Arquette interviews international actresses about growing older in the business and trying to have it all: career, love, family. At first I thought there would be too much about Arquette, and although the film is as much
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Christine Jeffs
Starring: Aaron Murphy | Alicia Fulford-Wierzbicki | Alistair Browning | Marton Csokas | Sara Peirse
Michael says: “All languid heat, foreboding skies and alcohol-induced haze, RAIN is a coming-of-age tale set in New Zealand that is well-acted, gorgeously lensed, but not all that creatively written. Based on the novel by Kirsty Gunn, there is very
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Lieven Debrauwer
Starring: Ann Petersen | Dora van der Groen | Rosemarie Bergmans
Michael says: “Pauline is a developmentally disabled woman in her mid to late sixties. She lives with her sister Martha, is fixated with her more glamorous sister Paulette, and has forgotten her youngest sister Cecile, who has moved away from
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Mike Leigh
Starring: Alison Garland | Daniel May | Helen Coker | James Corden | Lesley Manville | Marion Bailey | Paul Jesson | Ruth Sheen | Sally Hawkins | Timothy Spall
Laura says: “After diversions with career girls and period performers, writer/director Mike Leigh returns to the working class of SECRETS & LIES and LIFE IS SWEET. Within the confines of a dreary South London housing unit, Leigh and his actors
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Philippe de Broca
Starring: Daniel Auteuil | Fabrice Luchini | Marie Gillain | Vincent Perez
Laura says: “This French film has been made numerous times over the decades and de Broca’s version has a distinctly old- fashioned flavor that serves it well. ON GUARD! is classic cinema served up with heart and humor. “The old
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Tarô Rin
Starring: Jamieson Price | Kei Kobayashi | Kouki Okada | Yuka Imoto
Bob says: “I for one didn’t see much of a connection to Lang’s film at all. There is the setting — a huge mechanized city in which many of the people find themselves below the surface (literally and figuratively), an
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