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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Stéphane Brizé
Starring: Christophe Rossignon | Karine De Mirbeck | Matthieu Schaller | Noël Mairot | Vincent Lindon | Xavier Mathieu | Yves Ory
Michael says: “I think it’s safe to say that the majority of Chlotrudis members first noticed Vincent Lindon in Claire Denis’ compelling film, FRIDAY NIGHT, which picked up a Trudy for Best Cinematography. Two years later, Vincent picked up his
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Jeff Nichols
Starring: Alano Miller | Chris Greene | Joel Edgerton | Michael Shannon | Ruth Negga | Sharon Blackwood | Terri Abney | Will Dalton
Michael says: “What a delight to see Ruth Negga’s gentle, yet inspiring performance as Mildred in LOVING after only knowing her as Raina, the villainous Inhuman in Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. She was always a standout in that comic-based TV
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Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Starring: Carla Ribas | Humberto Carrão | Irandhir Santos | Maeve Jinkings | Sonia Braga | Zoraide Coleto
Chris says: “Although she’s best known for her role in KISS OF THE SPIDER-WOMAN from three decades ago, Sonia Braga delivers a monumental, career-best performance here as Clara, a retired music critic who staunchly refuses to sell her Recife, Brazil
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Director: Mike Mills
Starring: Alison Elliott | Billy Crudup | Elle Fanning | Greta Gerwig | Lucas Jade Zumann | nnette Bening | Thea Gill | Vitaly Andrew LeBeau
Hilary says: “Annette Bening plays Dorothea, a child of the Depression navigating the ever-changing world of 1979 as a divorced, atypically older mother of a teenager, willfully single, and working in a male-dominated profession. She is raising her teenage son,
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Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Anne Consigny | Charles Berling | Christian Berkel | Isabelle Huppert | Jonas Bloquet | Judith Magre | Laurent Lafitte | Virginie Efira
Kyle says: “Recipient of dozens of international awards including the César Award, Film Independent Spirit Award, Nerw York Film Critics Circle and Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress, Isabelle Huppert is a virtual legend among contemporary actors:
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Babak Anvari
Starring: Aram Ghasemy | Arash Marandi | Avin Manshadi | Behi Djanati Atai | Bobby Naderi | Narges Rashidi | Ray Hartian | Soussan Farakhnia
Michael says: “The best horror films are usually allegories for circumstances based in reality, and UNDER THE SHADOW tackles several in its depiction of an apartment seemingly haunted by a spirit called a djinn. Shideh is facing a host of
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Director: Gabriel Mascaro
Starring: Abigail Pereira | Juliano Cazarré | Maeve Jinkings | Roberto Birindelli
Bruce says: “NEON BULL is an audacious film involving the lives of a troop Brazilian rodeo workers. The film is testimony to the many contradictions in the human condition – a daredevil rodeo rider has a passion for designing women’s
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Director: Anna Rose Holmer
Starring: Alexis Neblett | Antonio A.B. Grant Jr. | Da'Sean Minor | IOnayah Rodgers | Lauren Gibson | Makyla Burnam | Royalty Hightower | Shonte Jackson
Toni says: “Anna Rose Holmer’s first narrative feature, THE FITS, is about a ten-year-old African American girl, Toni, who trains as a boxer yet becomes obsessed with a West End Cincinnati community’s dance group. With a balance of coming-of-age and
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Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Dong-hwi Lee | Jung-woo Ha | Kim Hae-sook | Kim Min-hee | Kim Tae-ri | Min-chae Yoo | Yong-nyeo Lee
Vicki says: “Chan-wook Park doesn’t disappoint in his no-holds-barred film, THE HANDMAIDEN. Park bases the film on the Victorian thriller, Fingersmith but moves the setting to to 1930’s Korea under Japanese Colonialism. Park maintains the novel’s three part structure (story told
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jim McKay
Starring: Abel Perez | Alejandro Huitzil | Alfonso Velazquez | Fernando Cardona | Genoel Ramírez | Gilberto Arenas | Gilberto Jimenez
Chris says: “Jim McKay wrote and directed one of my favorite films, OUR SONG two decades ago; since then, he’s mostly worked on various prestige TV series. I hadn’t even heard of this 2017 feature, his first in 12 years,
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