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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Pen-Ek Ratanaruang
Starring: Ananda Everingham | Apinya Sakuljaroensuk | Lalita Panyopas | Phorntip Papanai | Pornwut Sarasin
Chris says: “PLOY, the latest from Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, initially seems worlds away from LAST LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE: it follows a couple checking into Bangkok hotel and is all rendered in washed out earth tones and barely audible ambient music
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alexander Voulgaris
Starring: Alexander Voulgaris | Argiris Thanasoulas | Christina Mathea | Romanna Lobats
Bruce says: “There are many things to like about PINK. PINK is a meditation on personal history, love, loss and creativity. It unconventionally wanders between fantasy and reality. Using a clay model of Athens to tell his story director Voulgaris
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Duncan Roy
Michael says: “British director Duncan Roy got a little attention several years ago with AKA, a film about a young working class man who impersonates an aristocrat. For his latest film, Roy creates a modern adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s well-known
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Glenn Standring
Starring: Dougray Scott | Leo Gregory | Saffron Burrows | Scott Willis
Jason says: “For PERFECT CREATURE, the question of ‘what if vampires were real’ isn’t quite good enough; it asks what if vampires were real, but instead of being feared, they were objects of worship? It’s kind of a dodgy idea,
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Marjane Satrapi | Vincent Paronnaud
Starring: Catherine Deneuve | Chiara Mastroianni | Danielle Darrieux | Gabrielle Lopes | Simon Abkarian
Jason says: “In recent years, Persepolis has been sliding into the spot that Maus used to occupy: The socially-relevant graphic novel that makes inroads into the mainstream and is used as an example of how the medium is good for
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Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Hector Babenco
Starring: Ana Celentano | Analía Couceyro | Gael García Bernal | Marta Lubos | Mimí Ardú | Moro Anghileri
Bruce says: “Based on a novel by Alan Pauls, THE PAST is a story with many themes: separation, jealousy, tragedy, and loss of love. At a party, Frida (Marta Lubos) toasts Rimini (Gael Garcia Bernal) and Sofia (Analía Couceyro) who
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Rating: 4.3 cats
Director: Satoshi Kon
Starring: Kôichi Yamadera | Megumi Hayashibara | Tôru Furuya
Jason says: “That star rating generally indicates that PAPRIKA is a nearly perfect film, which I’ll admit isn’t the case. Here’s the thing, though – there is just so much good stuff crammed into it that I’m willing to overlook that.
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Alexander Payne | Alfonso Cuarón | Christopher Doyle | Ethan Coen | Gus Van Sant | Isabel Coixet | Joel Coen | Olivier Assayas | Tom Tykwer | Walter Salles | Wes Craven
Starring: Fanny Ardant | Gerard Depardieu | Julie Bataille | Juliette Binoche | Leïla Bekhti | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Margo Martindale | Melchior Derouet | Seydou Boro | Steve Buscemi | Willem Dafoe
Bruce says: “Twenty two directors join together for twenty short stories about love, each set in a different arrondissmont in Paris. The directors approach love from different angles. Some are dead serious, some bittersweet and others, quite amusing. By the
Read the review...The Orphanage (Spain/Mexico; 105 min.) directed by: Juan Antonio Bayonastarring: Belén Rueda; Fernando Cayo; Roger Princep; Mabel Rivera; Montserrat Carulla; Andrés Gertrúdix Julie says: “I’m not much one for ghost stories, but this incredibly well made Spanish film was excellent.
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Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Goran Paskaljevic
Starring: Bojana Novakovic | Dragan Jovanovic | Lazar Ristovski | Mira Banjac | Nebojsa Glogovac | Nebojsa Milovanovic | Slavko Stimac
Bruce says: “THE OPTIMISTS is a series of five vignettes about those who more or less take advantage of the situation rather than rise to the occasion. The first is about a hypnotist who visits a peasant village. The hapless
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