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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Richard Bates Jr
Jason says: “According to the post-movie Q&A, writer/director Richard Bates Jr. initially couldn’t get any projects off the ground after EXCISION, in part because that movie, despite garnering many positive reviews and festival awards, was just absurdly dark. So for
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jin-sung Choi
Starring: Chang-gil Moon | King Kwab-sub | Oh Hee-Joon | Shi-hoo Kim | So-dam Park | Yun-hea Kim
Jason says: “Apparently the literal translation of this movie’s Korean title (‘SONYEO’) is simply ‘Girl’. Fair enough, and evocative in its own way; maybe in some ways a little better than the English-language title it’s been given for the festival
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Wiebke von Carolsfeld
Starring: Aidan Quinn | Barry Keoghan | Brian Gleeson | Carrie Crowley | Michael Ironside | Nika McGuigan | Taylor Schilling
Michael says: “STAY is the long-awaited second narrative feature from Chlotrudis winner and friend, Wiebke von Carolsfeld. It comes ten years after her powerful debut, MARION BRIDGE, and while STAY may not pack the emotional or dramatic punch as the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Craig Johnston
Starring: Bill Hader | Boyd Holbrook | Joanna Gleason | Kristen Wiig | Luke Wilson | Ty Burrell
Jason says: “THE SKELETON TWINS refers to something which appears within the movie almost entirely so that the title will mean something, much like these indie family dramas with established actors themselves often seem to be in the same sort
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bryan Reisberg
Starring: Harry Lloyd | James Ricker II | Krista Kosonen | Sylvia Grace Crim | Travis Koop
Jason says: “There are many ways to have a good road trip; you can do it by sticking close to a map and itinerary, let your whims guide you, or do something in between. There are many ways to mess
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Israel Cárdenas | Laura Amelia Guzmán
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin | Ricardo Ariel Toribio | Yanet Mojica
Bruce says: “First there was HEADING SOUTH, Laurent Cantet’s 2005 film that featured middle-aged women fighting for the affections of Haitian beach boys. Then came PARADISE: LOVE, Ulrich Seidl’s searing 2012 portrait of Austrian women who go to Kenya to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Antonio Piazza | Fabio Grassadonia
Starring: Giuditta Perriera | Jacopo Menicagli | Luigi Lo Cascio | Mario Pupella | Redouane Behache | Saleh Bakr | Sara Serraiocco
Kyle says: “SALVO is a rather remarkable feature film debut by writers and directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza (although they have a substantial chronology together as writers and script consultants) — a Mafia thriller that is both mainstream and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Abdellah Taïa
Starring: Amine Ennaji | Frédéric Landenberg | Hamza Slaoui | Karim Ait M'Hand | Malika El Hamaoui | Said Mrini
Kyle says: “SALVATION ARMY is a re-working of the autobiographical novel also written by Abdellah Taïa, who is making his directorial debut with this film. The first mainstream gay Moroccan film, Taïa tells the story of growing up poor and
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lee Ju-hyoung
Starring: Jung Woo | Kim Yu-mi | Oh Jae-moo | Park Myung-shin | Park So-young | Son Byung-ho
Jason says: “There have been many, many films built around the twin premises that the family next door that’s too perfect to be true really isn’t, and that they have their own problems. RED FAMILY doesn’t go a completely new
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Eisuke Naitô
Starring: Baku Ohwada | Kaho | Kazuya Takahashi | Kokone Sasaki | Ryuzo Tanaka | Shûhei Nomura
Jason says: “I’m sure that the title of PUZZLE was supposed to describe the sensation of watching it to a certain extent, although there were several times that I think filmmaker Eisuke Naito may not necessarily have meant to set
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