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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Benny Safdie | Danny Ramirez | Joe Alwyn | Margaret Qualley | Nick Romano
Michael says: “Claire, you had me for almost 90 minutes until Joe Alwyn’s Daniel blurts out a painfully earnest, but still sadly wooden ‘I love you,” to Margaret Qualley’s Trish in this erotic political thriller. I guffawed so suddenly that Eddy
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Bulle Ogier | Grégoire Colin | Issa Perica | Juliette Binoche | Vincent Lindon
Chris says: “It almost pains me to conclude that Claire Denis is not infallible after all, or perhaps Arty Soap Opera just doesn’t play to her strengths. Binoche and Lindon are both good, but when are they ever not? 2
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Alex Descas | Gerard Depardieu | Josiane Balasco | Juliette Binoche | Nicolas Duvauchelle | Philippe Katerine | Sandrine Dumas | Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Xavier Beauvois
Chris says: “Leave it to Claire Denis to open her latest by saddling Juliette Binoche with one heck of a blowhard beau and close it on an extended conversation between Binoche and Gerard Depardieu, decidedly *not* her beau (his actual
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Agata Buzek | André Benjamin | Juliette Binoche | Lars Eidinger | Mia Goth | Robert Pattinson
Chris says: “Rest assured, Claire Denis’ first English-language feature is no sellout or concession to a more commercial cinema; on the contrary, it’s possibly her most enigmatic effort since THE INTRUDER. It centers on Monte (Robert Pattinson, further distancing himself
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Christopher Lambert | Isaach De Bankolé | Isabelle Huppert | Nicolas Duvauchelle | William Nadylam
Thom says: “With 3 musts-see involved with this project I was really excited about this world premiere. Denis was there for the Q&A but unfortunately Huppert & De Bankolé were not. I had considered Denis one of my TOP 10
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Alex Descas | GrégoireColin | Mati Diop | Nicole Dogue
Beth Curran says: “Michael will be very happy. So far (end of Day 4) this is my favorite film of the festival. It’s a character study, a few days or so in the lives of a father and adult daughter
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Beatrice Dalle | Grégoire Colin | Michel Subor | Yekaterina Golubeva
Bruce says: “SPOILER ALERT! Anyone who has been to a car show knows about concept cars. L’INTRUS is a film equivalent: a concept film. Finished less than a week before its world premiere in Toronto, L’INTRUS was inspired by the
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Rating: 3.9
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Hélène de Saint-Père | Valérie Lemercier | Vincent Lindon
Ivy says: “If you missed FRIDAY NIGHT when it played in the Boston’s Women’s Fest this Spring, please consider going tonight to the Monday Night at the Movies, or catching it at the Kendall before it leaves this Thursday. This,
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Rating: 1.6 cats
Director: Claire Denis
Starring: Alex Descas | Beatrice Dalle | Florence Loiret Caille | Nicolas Duvauchelle | Tricia Vessey | Vincent Gallo
Emily says: “Having heard Claire Denis’ new film was a disappointment after BEAU TRAVAIL (a favorite of mine), I was lucky enough to disregard these reviews and catch it during the Boston Women’s Film festival – thanks be, I loved
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