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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Kevin Kopacka
Starring: Anna Platen | Frederik von Lüttichau | Jeff Wilbusch | Luisa Taraz | Robert Nickisch
Brett says: “Aesthetically soothing, frightening, trippy, and feverish all in perfect rhythm with whichever atmosphere the scene calls for at the time, one way to introduce the film DAWN BREAKS BEHIND THE EYES is to go ahead and establish that’s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Alex Garland
Starring: Gayle Rankin | Jessie Buckley | Paapa Essiedu | Rory Kinnear | Sarah Twomey | Zak Rothera-Oxley
Brett satys: “With a film likely to be as divisive as MEN, it is perhaps best to keep a review as short as possible so as to not dig oneself a hole that he/she is unable to crawl out of.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Lucia Small
Chris says: “By far not the first film about high school debate programs, Lucia Small’s documentary is surely the only one to focus primarily on female debaters. Shot over five years and using Newton South High School as its primary
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Audrey Diwan
Starring: Anamaria Vartolomei | Kacey Mottet Klein | Louise Chevillotte | Louise Orry-Diquéro | Luàna Bajrami
Diane says: “Based on an autobiographical novel by this year’s Nobel prize winner, Annie Ernaux. And you thought 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS was as harrowing an abortion movie as you’d ever see. Director Audrey Diwan hews close to
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sebastian Meise
Starring: Alfred Hartung | Anton Von Lucke | Franz Rogowski | Georg Friedrich | Thomas Penn | Thomas Stecher
Michael says: “This German film led with a strong performance, looks back at the post WWII period in Germany, where the Paragraph 175 law, outlawing homosexuality, was still enforced. Hans Hoffman is repeatedly thrown in prison for cruising toilets, or
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Maria Speth
Diane says: “German doc in the Wiseman style: no explanatory info or voiceovers, and over three-and-a-half hours long. Closely follows 20 or so kids (middle schoolish) and their teacher, who will be retiring at the end of the school year,
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yngvild Sve Flikke
Starring: Arthur Berning | Kristine Kujath Thorp | Nader Khademi | Silya Nymoen | Tora Christine Dietrichson
Diane says: “A sweet and angsty Norwegian film about an unsettled woman who finds out she’s pregnant and has to make decisions fast. “What I liked: The tone—funny, yet also captured the fear and confusion of the predicament Major and minor
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Nadav Lapid
Starring: Avshalom Pollak | Mili Eshet | Naama Preis | Neeta Roth | Nur Fibak | Yehonatan Vilozny
Chris says: “Lapid’s mastery of style here at least has the substance to justify and fortify it. Preachy though it may be, his alter-ego’s climactic spilling-of-guts is necessary and effective, even if the mother stuff ends up providing more catharsis.
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Emmanuel Marre | Julie Lecoustre
Starring: Adèle Exarchopoulos | Alexandre Perrier | Arthur Egloff | Mara Taquin | Tamara Al Saadi
Chris says: “‘Once I wanted to be a nun til I found out what it takes from you; Now I’ve settled on Flight Attendant, and I know my heart is true.’ –Meryn Cadell. (P.S. Adele Exarchopoulos, whom you may remember
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Justin Kurzel
Starring: Anthony LaPaglia | Caleb Landry Jones | Essie Davis | Judy Davis | Phoebe Taylor | Sean Keenan
Diane says: “NITRAM is a tough film. I’m grateful that I was told hardly anything about it by the friend who recommended it. It’s the story of a misfit, a depressive young Australian man whose parents try hard to make
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