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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Catherine Breillat
Starring: Clotilde Courau | Léa Drucker | Olivier Rabourdin | Samuel Kircher | Serena Hu
Brett says: “Many know director Catherine Breillat for being provocative in both subject matter and delivery, and LAST SUMMER is her latest in a library of films that generates discussion well after the end credits roll. Anne is a lawyer
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Matteo Garrone
Starring: Doodou Sagna | Hichem Yacoubi | Issaka Sawadogo | Moustapha Fall | Seydou Sarr
Diane says: “A brutal, harrowing story of two boys who leave Senegal intent on reaching Europe, not to escape poverty or persecution, but to follow their dream of becoming pop stars. I was tricked by the movie poster into thinking it
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Minhal Baig
Starring: Avery Holliday | Blake Cameron James | David Folsom | Giovani Chambers | Lil Rel Howery
Chris says: “Set in a re-creation of the now-demolished high rise towers of the notorious Chicago housing project Cabrini-Green in 1992, Minhal Baig’s film focuses on two 12-year-old boys living there: Malik (Blake Cameron James) and Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez).
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kasia Smutniak
Diane says: “Katia Smutniak, an award-winning Polish-Italian actor, said at the TIFF Q&A that her documentary was ‘not made out of a desire to make a movie.’ Compelled by the situation of migrants trying to enter Poland through the country’s
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Billy Luther
Starring: Charley Hogan | Keir Tallman | Martin Sensmeier | Sarah H. Natani
Chris says: “Billy Luther, a Navajo, Hopi, and Laguna Pueblo filmmaker best known for documentaries (MISS NAVAJO) makes his fiction feature debut with this gentle coming-of-age tale. 11-year-old city kid Benny (Keir Tallman) is sent to spend the summer with
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Christy Hall
Starring: Dakota Johnson | Marcos A. Gonzalez | Sean Penn | Shannon Gannon
Brett says: “DADDIO is the first feature film from director Christy Hall. This is a one-location, two-character film that unfolds within a cab ride from JFK Airport to Hell’s Kitchen. Hall is a playwright through and through, so it may
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ariane Louis-Seize
Starring: Félix-Antoine Bénard | Noémie O'Farrell | Sara Montpetit | Sophie Cadieux | Steve Laplante
Brett says: “HUMANIST VAMPIRE SEEKING CONSENTING SUICIDAL PERSON has one of the year’s top tier titles, and first-feature director Ariane Louis-Seize offers some memorable cinematic moments to accompany it. The title covers the premise in full, as Sasha, a young
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Jared Moshe
Starring: Coel Mahal | Edi Gathegi | Faithe Herman | Judy Greer | Payman Maadi
Michael says: “Like a longer version of a good episode of Black Mirror as a woman travels back in time to prevent her husband’s death… but that’s good, isn’t it? Judy Greer is terrific. 3 cats “(Available streaming on Hulu; For
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Molly Gordon | Nick Lieberman
Starring: Ben Platt | Caroline Aaron | Jimmy Tatro | Molly Gordon | Noah Galvin
Chris says: “Probably funnier than 2003’s CAMP; also, it’s not quite WAITING FOR GUFFMAN but much closer to it than I was expecting. Upon watching this months ago, I wrote, ‘Give Noah Galvin his Independent Spirit Award nomination already,’ and
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kristoffer Borgli
Starring: Eirik Sæther | Fanny Vaager | Fredrik Stenberg Ditlev-Simonsen | Kristine Kujath Thorp | Sarah Francesca Brænne
Diane says: “‘No one wants to be a psychopath.’ Signe takes a perverse route to get attention and even fame, when she’s neglected by her rising artist boyfriend. Funny, weird Norwegian satire with a cameo by my fave Anders Danielsen
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