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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Natalia Sinelnikova
Starring: Ioana Iacob | Jörg Schüttauf | Pola Geiger | Siir Eloglu | Susanne Wuest
Michael says: “A social commentary that starts off wickedly funny and gets progressively darker, even while maintaining an edge of humor. Tackling paranoia, mob mentality, fear-mongering (so relevant in today’s world), race and class, WE MIGHT AS WELL BE DEAD
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Léa Mysius
Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos | Moustapha Mbengue | Patrick Bouchitey | Sally Dramé | Swala Emati
Michael says: “For second outing as writer/director, French artiste Léa Mysius tackles mystic melodrama with largely successful results. An eight-year-old girl with supernatural smelling abilities, an forbidden romance, a tragic fire, and some time travel all add up to a filled-to-bursting
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jean-Pierre Dardenne | Luc Dardenne
Starring: Alban Ukaj | Charlotte De Bruyne | Joely Mbundu | Pablo Schils | Tijmen Govaerts
Chris says: “Reassuring (if depressing) that cine-activists like the Dardenne Brothers will never run out of subjects fueling their outrage at an unjust society; this is one of their starkest and most effective critiques. 4.5 cats“
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Raine Allen-Miller
Starring: Charlie Knight | David Jonsson | Poppy Allen-Quarmby | Simon Manyonda | Vivian Oparah
Chris says: “British writer-director Raine Allen-Miller’s widely praised feature debut has all the elements a good rom-com should (sharp screenplay, appealing leads w/chemistry, plenty of laughs) but also an actual perspective that’s deeply felt in everything from the visual design
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Matt Johnson
Starring: Cary Elwes | Glenn Howerton | Jay Baruchel | Matt Johnson | Saul Rubinek
Amanda says: “BLACKBERRY is a biographical comedy-drama film that chronicles the captivating journey of Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie in Waterloo, Canada that starts in the late 1990’s. These two individuals played a pivotal role in shaping the extraordinary ascent
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Christian Petzold
Starring: Enno Trebs | Langston Uibel | Matthias Brandt | Paula Beer | Thomas Schubert
Chris says: “Two young Berliners, Leon (Thomas Schubert), a writer struggling to finish his novel and his friend Felix (Langston Uibel), a photographer, take a trip to a cabin in the woods near the Baltic Sea owned by Felix’s mother. Upon
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Colm Bairéad
Starring: Andrew Bennett | Carrie Crowley | Catherine Clinch | Kate Nic Chonaonaigh | Michael Patric
Michael says: “I went into THE QUIET GIRL with only the knowledge that it was spoken in the traditional Irish language, and the image or the young girl on the poster. I knew nothing else about it. As the film
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Laura Poitras
Chris says: “Maybe my favorite new documentary since the one on David Wojnarowicz, and even his brief presence here doesn’t distract from Nan Goldin, whose work and life personifies that blur between the two, not to mention the personal and the
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alejandro Loayza Grisi
Starring: Candelaria Quispe | Félix Ticona | José Calcina | Luisa Quispe | Placide Ali
Michael says: “When I learned that Utama is translated in English to Our Home, it resonated so much more with me. I found UTAMA to be a powerful, effective film that, while fairly straightforward, successfully blended several themes, most notably
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Berkun Oya
Starring: Artun Can Salman | Funda Eryigit | Nur Sürer | Okan Yalabik | Yilmaz Erdogan
Michael says: “If you’re in the mood for a leisurely paced, two-and-a-half hour Turkish family drama where secrets are discovered thirty years after the fact, CICI is for you. I have to say, I’ve got a thing for lengthy, Turkish
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