Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chris Kriofske
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Suzanne Lindon
Starring: Arnaud Valois | Frédéric Pierrot | Suzanne Lindon
Chris says: “‘I’m bored with people my own age,’ notes Suzanne Lindon’s self-named teenaged protagonist; in her first feature, which she wrote, directed and starred in (at age *19*), you can see why. Gawky and plainspoken (resembling a young Charlotte
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adam Jones | Darby Duffin
Michael says: “Filmmakers do a great job weaving multiple narratives into a cohesive story about the fishing industry from ocean to plate. From Gloucester, MA to Norway, Japan, Montauk NY, Washington DC, Wellfleet, and Los Angeles, this film manages to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Filippo Meneghetti
Starring: Barbara Sukowa | Jérôme Varanfrain | Léa Drucker | Martine Chevallier
Michael says: “Two older, retired women who have been romantically involved for the past twenty years live in neighboring apartments. They plan to move to Italy to live out the remainder of their lives together now that Madeleine has become
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Christian Sonderegger
Starring: Coby | Ellen Richard-Hunt | Jacob Hunt | Sara Mound
Thom says: “I had seen Coby previously in an episode of QUOTIDIEN and was won over by his boyish charm. This telling documentary expands on the theme of the transformation of Coby from a 21-year-old female to a 21-year-old male,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
Starring: Alejandro Castillo | Celine Reymond | Luis Alarcón | Marko Zaror
Jason says: “It is, perhaps, possible to tell just how well-done a parody is by how long it’s able to convince you that it’s the real thing. MANDRILL presents an exceptionally straight face, to the extent that it can come
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hun Jang
Jason says: “SECRET REUNION starts out like a spy movie, the sort they don’t set in the present day anymore because the Cold War has ended everywhere but Korea and Cuba (although from the recent news about a busted Russian
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Dan Sallitt
Starring: Lorelei Romani | Norma Kuhling | Tallie Medel
Michael says: “Everyone who’s made it through college and into their 30’s has a friend like Jo. Often attractive, always charismatic, usually the center of attention, self-involved, and source for lots of unnecessary drama, these are friends who take up
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Clémentine Grenier | Ethan Hawke | Juliette Binoche
Michael says: “Hirokazu Koreeda goes to France and assembles an international cast including Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, and Ethan Hawke, but sticks close to his favorite theme of family. In this case it’s the strained relationship between a mother, Fabienne,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Shannon Murphy
Starring: Ben Mendelsohn | Eliza Scanlen | Essie Davis | Michelle Lotters | Sora Wakaki | Toby Wallace
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Ishii Yuichi | Mahiro Tanimoto | Miki Fujimaki | Takashi Nakatani
Diane says: “Werner Herzog is an odd duck, isn’t he? He comes upon an outré topic and treats it like no one else would. In FAMILY ROMANCE LLC (4 cats) Herzog takes off from a magazine story by a former
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