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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Terence Davies
Starring: Calam Lynch | Jack Lowden | Jeremy Irvine | Kate Phillips | Tom Blyth
Chris says: “Along with his other poet biopic A QUIET PASSION, Terence Davies is clearly on a late-career high; also his most deliciously bitchy film to date, and it doesn’t even have Laura Linney in it. (I’ll have more to
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Starring: Agnes Brekke | Daniel Giménez Cacho | Jerónimo Barón | Juan Pablo Urrego | Tilda Swinton
Brett says: “Otherworldly, yet firmly planted in our current existence. Mystical, yet earthy. These are a few of the paradoxes during a screening of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s MEMORIA. It might be better to describe this one as a dreamscape rather than
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alli Haapasalo
Starring: Aamu Milonoff | Cécile Orblin | Eleonoora Kauhanen | Linnea Leino | Oona Airola | Sonya Lindfors
Chris says: “If the English title sounds a bit generic (the original Finnish one translates as GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS), rest assured, the film is not. Mostly set over three consecutive Fridays, it’s about three teenagers: Mimmi (Aamu Milonoff) and Rönkkö
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Mong-Hong Chung
Starring: Alyssa Chia | Gingle Wang | Kuan-Ting Liu | Lee-zen Lee | Li-Yin Yang | Wei-Ning Hsu
Michael says: “It’s exhilarating, yet also quite frustrating, when the last eligible film you see before you decide to nominate ends up being one of your favorite films of the year. The Taiwanese film, THE FALLS came to may attention
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Starring: Dagmara Dominczyk | Dakota Johnson | Ed Harris | Jessie Buckley | Olivia Colman | Paul Mescal | Peter Sarsgaard
Michael says: “Bravo to Maggie Gyllenhaal for adapting a complex novel into a visually arresting, and thematically engrossing film in her first time out as a screenwriter and director. Leda is a middle-aged woman visiting a resort in Greece for
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Sun-ae Lim
Starring: Joon-Kyung Kim | Ju-bong Gi | Soo-jung Ye
Michael says: “It was a bold move for South Korean writer director Lim Sun-ae to tackle elder abuse and rape as the subject of her first film, but after working on storyboards for director’s such as Lee Chang-dong, she was
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jane Campion
Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch | Frances Conroy | Geneviève Lemon | Jesse Plemons | Keith Carradine | Kirsten Dunst | Kodi Smit-McPhee | Thomasin McKenzie
Chris says: “Following a decade working mostly in television (TOP OF THE LAKE), Jane Campion returns to feature filmmaking at the top of her game. This adaptation of a Thomas Savage novel set in 1925 Montana (but filmed in New Zealand,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Magnus von Horn
Starring: Aleksandra Konieczna | Julian Swiezewski | Lech Lotocki | Magdalena Kolesnik | Magdalena Kuta | Zbigniew Zamachowski
Michael says: “Swedish writer/director Magnus Van Horn traveled to Poland to make his second feature film about the self-involved, soul-harrowing life of a celebrity Instagram influencer. Sylwia is a fitness guru, whose positive energy, warm persona, and energetic workouts we first
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Christine Molloy | Joe Lawlor
Starring: Aidan Gillen | Ann Skelly | Annabell Rickerby | Catherine Walker | Joanne Crawford | Orla Brady
Jeff says: “Whew! Maybe the best movie I saw. A college student seeks her biological mother, learns the truth of her conception and birth, and the two of them gradually draw in the man responsible, with a stunning confrontation at
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Gavin Lewis | Potsy Ponciroli | Scott Haze | Stephen Dorff | Tim Blake Nelson | Trace Adkins
Thom says: “Is anything more fun than a huge surprise? While beloved Tim Blake Nelson is must-see, he’s in a lot of mediocre material. Moreover, this was a Western, one of my least favourite genres. To make matters worse, director
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