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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Martial Fougeron
Starring: Nathalie Baye | Olivier Gourmet | Victor Sévaux
Bruce says: “**Spoilers** “Nathalie Baye is billed as ‘cast against type’ in MY SON. One wonders who might have been the right type for the psychotic nightmare of a mother, other than Isabelle Huppert, of course. Ms. Baye proves that
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: James D. Scurlock
Bruce says: “MAXED OUT is the first film I’ve been able to see at the Chlotrudis sponsored Sunday Eye Opener series at the Brattle Theater. MAXED OUT is not the film I had thought it would be. Judging by its
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Vivien Lesnik Weisman
Bruce says: “This documentary film is an excellent primer for understanding issues of Cubans exiles, particularly those in South Florida. The title refers to the subject of the film Max Lesnik, a former resident of Havana, Cuba, and now a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Yôji Yamada
Starring: Mitsugoro Bando | Rei Dan | Takuya Kimura
Jason says: “As Yôji Yamada’s samurai dramas have become bigger and bigger hits in their native Japan, their American distribution has shrank. This is a real shame, because all three (THE TWILIGHT SAMURAI, THE HIDDEN BLADE, and now LOVE AND
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Bahman Farmanara
Starring: Hedye Tehrani | Jamshid Hashempur | Reza Kianian
Bruce says: “A LITTLE KISS is a poignant essay on aging, friendship, death and dying. Kamal (Jamshid Hashempur) is Iran’s most famous writer. He has a short time left to live and is cared for lovingly by his grandson. His
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jan Schütte
Starring: Barbara Hershey | Elizabeth Peña | Olivia Thirlby | Otto Tausig | Rhea Perlman | Tovah Feldshuh
Bruce says: “Director Jan Schütte has combined three short stories by Isasac Bashevis Singer – ‘Alone,’ ‘The Briefcase,’ and ‘Old Love,’ – into a clever, intelligent screenplay weaving the active imagination of a writer of fiction into the narrative line
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Tony Kaye
Chris says: “I can’t think of a more difficult topic for a documentary to tackle than abortion. In his first feature since AMERICAN HISTORY X, director Tony Kaye dives head first into the debate over abortion, examining it from seemingly
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stanley Nelson
Michael says: “Most of us probably remember the late 70’s when Jim Jones and the People’s Temple committed mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. Now director Stanley Nelson has put together a documentary about the People’s Temple that tries to focus
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Ho-Cheung Pang
Starring: Chapman To | Isabella Leong | Josie Ho
Jason says: “It’s easy to say what ISABELLA is about – a middle-aged man coming to terms with the daughter he never knew he had – although it’s a little more difficult to nail down the specific plot, especially while
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sean Penn
Starring: Catherine Keener | Emile Hirsch | Jena Malone | Marcia Gay Harden | William Hurt
Hilary says: ” Sean Penn’s latest directorial & screenwriting effort, INTO THE WILD, is an adaptation of Jon Krakauer’s book of the same name. WILD is the true story of an idealistic new college grad, Christopher McCandless, who travels around
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