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About Caroline Ely

Caroline Ely is a TV, movie, and art lover who worked for years in the television industry. Until a few years ago, she would have described herself as well traveled, and she hopes to live up to that description again very soon. She lives in New York and often heads to the San Francisco Bay Area.

About Elly

Written and Directed by Asghar Farhadi
Produced by Farhadi and Mahmoud Razavi
Released by Cinema Guild
Persian with English subtitles
Iran/France. 119 min. Not rated
With Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidousti, Shahab Hosseini, Merila Zarei, Mani Haghighi, Peyman Moadi, Rana Azadivar, Ahmad Mehranfar and Saber Abar
Shouting with spontaneous glee out of their car windows, a group of youngish professionals and their […]

By |April 8th, 2015|Family drama, Foreign|0 Comments

Jauja

Directed by Lisandro Alonso
Produced by Alonso, Viggo Mortensen, Ilse Hughan, Sylvie Pialat, Jaime Romandía, Andy Kleinman, Helle Ulsteen, Michael Weber, Ezequiel Borovinsky and Leandro Pugliese
Written by Alonso and Fabián Casas
Released by Cinema Guild
Spanish and Danish with English subtitles
Argentina/Denmark/France/Mexico/USA/Germany/Brazil/Netherlands. 108 min. Not rated
With Viggo Mortensen, Viilbjork Mallin Agger, Ghita Norby, Adrian Fondari, Esteban Bigliardi, Diego Roman, […]

By |March 19th, 2015|Experimental, South American|0 Comments

3 Hearts

Directed by Benoît Jacquot
Produced by Edouard Weil and Alice Girard
Written by Julien Boivent and Jacquot
Released by Cohen Media Group
France/Germany/Belgium. 106 min. Rated PG-13
In French with English subtitles
With Benoît Poelvoorde, Chiara Mastroianni, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Catherine Deneuve
Meet Marc Beaulieu, a balding, panic attack-prone tax auditor with close-set, tired eyes; a slight paunch; and the trendy stubble […]

By |March 12th, 2015|Family drama, French, Melodrama|0 Comments