The Last Shift (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Andrew Cohn
Starring: Cameron Scott Roberts | Da'Vine Joy Randolph | Ed O'Neill | Holden Ochsenhirt | Richard Jenkins | Shane Paul McGhie
The Cloud in Her Room (2022)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Xinyuan Zheng Lu
Starring: Dan Liu | Dong Kangning | Jin Jing | John Zhou | Ye Hongming | Zhou Chen
Michael says: “In a beautiful homage to the films of the French New Wave, first time feature director Zheng Lu, takes a melancholy look at a young woman returning home to divorced parents and wandering streets and the memories of
Read the review...Giraffe (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Anna Sofie Hartmann
Starring: Camilla Lau | Christopher Bach | Henning Valin Jakobsen | Jakub Gierszal | Lisa Loven Kongsli | Maren Eggert
Michael says: “GIRAFFE is an interesting film, one that uses elements of fiction and documentary to explore our fragile sense of identity and place. Dara is an historian who is working on an oral history project on a Danish Island
Read the review...The Trouble with Being Born (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sandra Wollner
Starring: Dominik Warta | Ingrid Burkhard | Jana McKinnon | Lena Watson | Simon Hatzl | Susanne Gschwendtner
Michael says: “**MILD SPOILERS**“Sandra Wollner’s second feature film as writer and director has stirred up a bit of controversy. It was pulled from the Melbourne Film Festival following criticisms by two psychologists (one who watched the first 20 minutes of the
Read the review...Time (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats | 4.125 cats
Director: Garrett Bradley
Diane says: “TIME is a documentary that covers 20 years in the life of a family waiting for the father to be released from prison. Surprisingly, it’s not commentary on our criminal justice system, but about how the woman outside
Read the review...Lovers Rock (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Steve McQueen
Starring: Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn | Daniel Francis-Swaby | Ellis George | Francis Lovehall | Kedar Williams-Stirling | Micheal Ward | Shaniqua Okwok
Part of the SMALL AXE Amazon Prime series. Diane says: “I’ve been wanting to see Steve McQueen’s set of SMALL AXE movies (on Amazon Prime), so natch I picked a short one—only an hour long. LOVERS ROCK is the title,
Read the review...Kill It and Leave This Town (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Mariusz Wilczynski
Starring: Andrzej Wajda | Anna Dymna | Daniel Olbrychski | Krystyna Janda | Magdalena Cielecka | Maja Ostaszewska | Malgorzata Kozuchowska
Diane says: “This Polish animated feature is eliciting lots of divided critique. ‘Abrasive,’ ‘grotesque,’ and ‘grimy acid trip’ are some of the descriptors used, even when reviewers ultimately come down on the positive side. Since I expect animation to be
Read the review...Tread (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Paul Solet
To the Ends of the Earth (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Adiz Rajabov | Atsuko Maeda | Ryo Kase | Shôta Sometani | Tokio Emoto
Michael says: “Yoko is the host of a popular travel show produced in Japan. While filming at various cultural landmarks in Uzbekistan, we see Yoko shooting hip deep in a lake supposedly filled with large, mysterious fish, repeatedly riding a
Read the review...Three Summers (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Sandra Kogut
Starring: Alli Willow | Gisele Fróes | Jéssica Ellen | Otávio Müller | Regina Casé | Rogério Fróes
