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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Molly Manning Walker
Starring: Anna Antoniades | Eleni Sachini | Enva Lewis | Lara Peake | Mia McKenna-Bruce
Brett says: “HOW TO HAVE SEX goes full throttle in providing what could be described as a neo-naturalist depiction, centered on the trendy Spring Break or summer vacation phenomena among post-high school graduates eager to leap into the benefits of adulthood
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Errol Morris
Chris says: “Errol Morris films live and die by how engaging the interrogated subject is, and mystery writer/ex-spy John le Carré/David Cornwell is entertaining in an unassuming Gore Vidal sort of way. However, in a new twist, Morris also lets
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Starring: Kim Min-hee | Lee Hye-yeong | Mi-So Park | Seo Younghwa | Yunhee Cho
Diane says: “A short but meaty film by Hong Sang-soo: in a suburb of Seoul, a novelist—whose best books may be behind her—visits an old colleague who has given up writing, and serendipitously encounters a filmmaker who’s happy to have
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul B. Preciado
Chris says: “With this unconventional documentary, transgender writer/philosopher/feminist Paul B. Preciado doesn’t so much take Virginia Woolf’s Orlando back from the 1992 Sally Potter film starring Tilda Swinton in the title role as he comprehensively shows how her story about
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Aki Kurismaki
Starring: Alina Tomnikov | Alma Pöysti | Janne Hyytiäinen | Jussi Vatanen | Martti Suosalo
Michael says: “Those who appreciate Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismäki enjoy his incredibly dry wit and deadpan humor. His latest film, FALLEN LEAVES, doesn’t alter his formula, but perhaps takes it even further. The story revolves around two lonely people, Holappa, a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Caolina Marcowicz
Starring: Erom Cordeiro | Isac Graça | Kauan Alvarenga | Maeve Jinkings | Thomas Aquino
Brett says: “Director Carolina Markowicz follows 2022’s genre-bending plot from CHARCOAL with yet another single-word title film. Similar to that first feature, this film allows audiences to interpret the ominous title to apply to quite a few different plot circumstances. The
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Starring: Carrie Coon | Elizabeth Olsen | Jay O. Sanders | Jovan Adepo | Natsha Lyonne
Diane says: “HIS THREE DAUGHTERS is a study in the distance between who we want to be and how we appear to others. “I was drawn to this at TIFF because I’m one of three daughters who, like the three
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: DK Welchman | Hugh Welchman
Starring: Ewa Kasprzyk | Kamila Urzedowska | Miroslaw Baka | Robert Gulaczyk | Sonia Mietielica
Diane says: “THE PEASANTS is by the creators of the award-winning LOVING VINCENT. Directors Dorota Kobiela and Hugh Welchman (a married couple) adapted a 4-volume, 1,000-page Polish novel—a story of 19th century rural life: farm, mill, church, tavern. “Like VINCENT,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Andrew Haigh
Starring: Andrew Scott | Carter John Grout | Claire Foy | Jamie Bell | Paul Mescal
Diane says: “ALL OF US STRANGERS opens with three scenes of admirable economy. Later on, director and screenwriter Andrew Haigh (45 YEARS, LEAN ON PETE) finds creative and convincing ways to pull us deep into someone’s psyche, adapting a novel
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alexandre O. Philippe
Chris says: “The influence of THE WIZARD OF OZ on David Lynch is frankly obvious for anyone who has seen WILD AT HEART but I can’t recall the last time I had such a blast watching any documentary. John Waters
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