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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 1.5 cats
Director: Arnaud Larrieu | Jean-Marie Larriue
Starring: Catherine Frot | Clotilde Hesme | Karin Viard | Mathieu Amalric | Sergi Lopez
Thom says: “It’s such a dreadful shame that my last two films at TIFF were not worth seeing. This was another apocalyptic film about a virus that’s killing the entire world population. It’s a road film about a married man
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Lone Scherfig
Starring: Alfred Molina | Cara Seymour | Carey Mulligan | Dominic Cooper | Emma Thompson | Olivia Williams | Peter Sarsgaard | Rosamund Pike
Michael says: “Danish director Lone Scherfig’s latest film (after scoring big with Chlotrudis with ITALIAN FOR BEGINNERS and WILBUR WANTS TO KILL HIMSELF), is an adaptation of a British memoir about a young girl preparing for University at a private
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Costa-Gravas
Starring: Juliane Köhler | Odysseas Papaspiliopoulos | Riccardo Scamarcio | Ulrich Tukur
Bruce says: “Costsa-Gavras’s reputation as a master filmmaker was made in 1969 with the dazzling Z, a film about totalitarian rule in Greece. His stance on fascist rule was amplified with STATE OF SIEGE and MISSING, the two politically charged
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Neil Burns
Starring: Aiden Drummond | Ben Cotton | Brian Drummond | Gokul | Jay Brazeau | Powers Boothe
Jason says: “For a movie about a great inventor, EDISON AND LEO is curiously lacking in spark. There are moments of quirky inspiration, but they’re quickly followed by fairly uninspired bits of meanness, ultimately wasting some fine animation. “George T.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kim Ki-Duk
Starring: Ji-a Park | Jô Odagiri | Mi-hie Jang | Na-yeong Lee | Tae-hyeon Kim
Jason says: “Although reasonable people may disagree on just what constitutes ‘good freaky’ versus ‘bad freaky,’ they will most likely acknowledge that there is a difference. Many of those familiar with the work of Korean auteur Kim Ki-duk will further
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Stephan Elliott
Starring: Ben Barnes | Colin Firth | Jessica Biel | Katherine Parkinson | Kimberley Nixon | Kris Marshall | Kristin Scott Thomas
Bruce says: “Noel Coward’s magnificent plays have been source material for the screen since films were silent. In fact, the only other English speaking version of EASY VIRTUE was made by Alfred Hitchcock in 1928 (a Spanish version appeared on
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Starring: Anna Bonaiuto | Carlo Buccirosso | Flavio Bucci | Giulio Bosetti | Toni Servillo
Diane says: “IL DIVO is difficult for Americans to understand. One has to know the Italian political scene to appreciate who the actors are and the machinations. Reading subtitles for the Italian dialogue doesn’t leave time to catch the original
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Luis Ortega
Starring: Alejandro Urdapilleta | Luis Ortega | Martina Juncadella
Thom says: “This is an unusual film of power, rage, and grace. It’s an apocalyptic vision of a bleak & deserted world. A couple is wandering through a dreary landscape ostensibly looking for a way to a river that if
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Christian Molina
Starring: Belén Fabra | Geraldine Chaplin | Leonardo Sbaraglia | Llum Barrera
Jason says: “DIARY OF A NYMPHOMANIAC is a bit of an anti-romance. In most movies, the main character is led along the path which shows that sex without True Love is ultimately empty, whereas in this one, pretty much every
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Yoav Shamir
Bruce says: “Too often a documentary does not present an equitable view of its subject. Filmmaker Yoav Shamir seems to have gone out of his way to present a balanced view of anti-Semitism in DEFAMATION. Nonetheless, his efforts seem to
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