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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Starring: Jean-Charles Clichet | Kodai Kurosaki | Kyôzô Nagatsuka | Tao Okamoto | Virginie Efira
Chris says: “What I said about Lee Chang-dong goes double for Ryusuke Hamaguchi as his latest deserves all the attention and acclaim of his breakthrough DRIVE MY CAR. Centered on a director of a nursing home in France (a superlative Virginie
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Afsaneh Salari
Val says: “Salari’s first film is a powerful look at the cosmetic surgery epidemic in Tehran. She gains amazing access into surgical ’boutiques’, the influencer-doctors that run them, and their clientele. In one notable scene, Salari takes the viewer inside
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Karthik Subbaraj
Starring: Keerthy Suresh | Ramachandran Durairaj | Rishikanth | Sananth | Soundararaja
Val says: “I can’t say enough about DOROTHY. I actually can’t because the midway point features a huge spoiler which will ruin your experience of the film if I reveal it. I can tell you that it defies genres and
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Sharon Kleinberg
Starring: Hector Kotsifakis | Mayra Batalla | Mercedes Hernández | Oustin León | Ruth Ramos
Michael says: “This was a huge surprise, as I was dubious about it before the screening, fearing it might be a little sensationalistic.. Writer/director Sharon Kleinberg has made a beautiful film about a trans man in Mexico City who becomes
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ole Bornedal
Starring: Jacob Ottensten | Lasse Rimmer | Lene Nystrøm | Mogens Pedersen
Jason says: “Ole Bornedal was never really away from filmmaking, but time spent trying to work Hollywood and then working Danish theater kept his film output very sparse in the ten years leading up to 2007. Since then, though, he’s
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ka-Fai Wai
Starring: Ching Wan Lau | Jo Koo | Kelly Lin | Mia Yam | Ying-Kit Chung
Jason says: “Last year, I saw Wai Ka-fai as a guest at another film festival, and as one might expect, most of the questions in the extended Q&A were about his collaborations with Johnnie To. WRITTEN BY didn’t play until
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Lee Hae-jun
Starring: Jeong Jae-yeong | Jung Ryeo-won | Min-heui Hong | Park Young-seo | Yang Mi-kyeong
Jason says: “Somehow, I got the idea into my head that CASTAWAY ON THE MOON was going to be a serious film, all allegory for isolation within the city and breaking its hero down to find out who he is
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Yoshihiro Nakamura
Starring: Atsushi Itô | Gaku Hamada | Hidekazu Mashima | Kiyohiko Shibukawa | Noriko Eguchi
Jason says: “FISH STORY, if nothing else, lives up to its name. Not in that fish appear anywhere in it, but in the other definition. It’s an unlikely story, which grows larger and stranger in the telling, but one that
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Jennifer Alleyn
Starring: Elsa Guedj | Emmanuel Schwartz | Jennifer Alleyn | Olivia Palacci | Philippe-Audrey Larrue St-Jacques
Michael says: “This was the one! Sublime film, looking at alienation and feeling exiled from your own life. Emmanuel Schwarz does an amazing job as a theater actor losing his focus and getting the opportunity to do a 3 –
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Matt Johnson
Starring: Ben Petrie | Ethan Eng | Jay McCarrol | Luke Lalonde | Matt Johnson
Jess says: “Saw it through the AMC Mystery Movie last week, genuinely such a treat! I cant remember the last time I had so much fun with a comedy, maybe THE NAKED GUN last year. I am not familiar with
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