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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Lorraine Levy
Starring: Catherine Jacob | Marilou Berry | Pierre Arditi
Bruce says: “This coming of age story features Chlotrudis award winning actress Marilou Berry as Hannah Goldman, an ugly duckling with two older, attractive sisters. Like the character Berry played in LOOK AT ME, Hannah does not know how to
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Griffin Dunne
TC says: “FIERCE PEOPLEhas taken a long, roundabout road to the big screen. Filmed in 2004, and having premiered at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival in New York, it has been this close to release several times since then, only
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Director: Andrew Currie
Starring: Billy Connolly | Carrie-Ann Moss | Dylan Baker
Beth says: “This was my first Canadian film. Apparently it was the largest budgeted independent film made in British Columbia, who’da thunk a ‘boy and his pet zombie’ flick would have that distinction. Anyhoo, yup it’s a zombie film, in
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michel Kammoun
Starring: Elie Mitri | Issam Bou Khaled | Michel El Hourany
Bruce says: “Beirut was once known as the Paris of the Middle East. Now, partly in ruins, Beirut is missing the tourists but the joie de vive still survives. FALAFEL explores the city through the wanderings of three friends during
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Hal Hartley
Starring: Elina Löwensohn | James Urbaniak | Jeff Goldblum | Liam Aiken | Parker Posey | Saffron Burrows | Thomas Jay Ryan
Michael says: “At certain points throughout FAY GRIM, the latest film by Chlotrudis Award winner Hal Hartley, particularly as the screen went black and the credits began to roll, a little thrill of excitement skittered down my spine. It’s the
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: George Hickenlooper
Starring: Guy Pearce | Hayden Christensen | Sienna Miller
Barbara says: “FACTORY GIRL outlines the bizarre and very sad life of Edie Sedgewick and her relationship with Andy Warhol whose ‘genius’ is surpassed by his meanness. Though the movies leaves you with a ‘What a waste of lives’ feeling,
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Jason Todd Ipson
Starring: Cerina Vincent | Jay Jablonski | John Kapelos
Jason says: “EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE ITALIAN is a delightfully slight romantic comedy. The film has a cute hook but isn’t held hostage by it, there are only one or two characters who aren’t at least occasionally funny, and the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Johnnie To
Starring: Anthony Wong Chau-sang | Francis Ng | Josie Ho | Nick Cheung | Simon Yam
Michael says: “One of the things I love about the Chlotrudis/Brattle co-presented Sunday Eye Opener series is that it gives me the opportunity to see films I would never select on my own. Johnnie To’s EXILED is one such film.
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Rating: 2 cats
Director: Ivan Vyrypayev
Starring: Maksim Ushakov | Mikhail Okunev | Polina Agureyeva
Bruce says: “Aside from two or three lovely moments, EUPHORIA is a rather grim and dreary film. Filmed on the steppes of Russia, the terrain is bleak and the story, bleaker. After meeting Vera at a wedding months earlier, Pavel
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Shekhar Kapur
Starring: Abbie Cornish | Cate Blanchett | Clive Owen | Geoffrey Rush | Samantha Morton | Tom Hollander
Michael says: “Who can resist Cate Blanchett, royal, imperious, hair unbound, clad in armor, riding on a white horse? Apparently not me, as I went to see ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE on opening weekend. I enjoyed ELIZABETH, one of Blanchett’s
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