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Family drama

May in the Summer

Written and Directed by Cherien Dabis Produced by Dabis, Alix Madigan-Yorkin and Christopher Tricarico Released by Cohen Media Group Jordan/Qatar/USA. 99 min. Rated R English and Arabic with English subtitles With Dabis, Alia Shawkat, Nadine Malouf, Ritu Singh Pande, Hiam Abbass, Alexander Siddig, Elie Mitri, and Bill Pullman May in the Summer centers on a […]

The Maid’s Room

Written and Directed by Michael Walker Produced by Dolly Hall Released by Paladin USA. 98 min Rated R Year With Paula Garcés, Bill Camp, Annabella Sciorra, Philip Ettinger, Herman Chavez, and Remy Auberjonois Writer/director Michael Walker’s class-conscious thriller The Maid’s Room is simultaneously a study of almost and too much. The film examines the day-to-day […]

After

Directed by Pieter Gaspersz Written by Sabrina Gennarino Released by Paladin USA. 100 min. Not rated With Kathleen Quinlan, John Doman, Pablo Schreiber, Sabrina Gennarino, Adam Scarimbolo, Diane Neal, Darrin Dewitt Henson Stalin is alleged to have called a single death a tragedy and a million deaths a statistic. Art can whittle the great events […]

The Amazing Catfish

Written and Directed by Claudia Sainte-Luce Produced by Geminiano Pineda Released by Strand Releasing Spanish with English subtitles Mexico. 95 min. Not Rated With Ximena Ayala, Lisa Owen, Sonia Franco, Wendy Guillén, Andrea Baeza and Alejandro Ramírez Mu?oz The Amazing Catfish is the semi-autobiographical debut feature of Mexican director Claudia Sainte-Luce. In her early thirties, […]

Amour

Written & Directed by Michael Haneke Produced by Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschika & Michael Katz Released by Sony Pictures Classics French with English subtitles Austria/France/Germany. 127 min. Rated PG-13 With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Emmanuelle Riva, Alexandre Tharaud & Isabelle Huppert Throughout his career—from his first feature, 1989’s The Seventh Continent, about a family’s methodical […]