Directed by David Mackenzie Produced by Gillian Berrie Written by Thomas Leveritt Released by Roadside Attractions UK. 80 min. Rated R With Luke Treadaway, Natalia Tena, Mathew Baynton, Ruta Gedmintas, Gavin Mitchell, Alastair Mackenzie & Sophie Wu Tonight You’re Mine is a cheerfully rocking alternative to Hollywood’s sappy, romantic comedies. The setting at a real, […]
Written & Directed by Eric Toledano & Olivier Nakache Produced by Nicolas Duval Adassovsky, Yann Zenou & Laurent Zeitoun Released by the Weinstein Company French with English subtitles France. 112 min. Rated R With François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot, Clothilde Mollet & Alba Gaïa Bellugi By the midway point of the […]
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 […]
Director by Yoichi Sai Producer by Nozomu Enoki, Ichiro Yamamoto Written by: Shoichi Maruyama & Yoshihiro Nakamura, based on the novel Modoken Quill No Issho by Ryohei Akimoto Released by Music Box Films Japanese with English subtitles Japan. 100 min. Not Rated (it should be rated G) With Kaoru Kobayashi, Kippei Shiina, Teruyuki Kagawa, Keiko […]
Directed by Maïwenn Produced by Alain Attal Written by Maïwenn & Emmanuelle Bercot Released by Sundance Selects French with English subtitles France. 127 min. Not rated With Karin Viard, Marina Foïs, Joeystarr, Maïwenn & Emmanuelle Bercot The opening of Polisse announces the assuredness of actress-turned-writer/director Maïwenn’s study of Paris cops working in the Child Protection […]
Directed by Andrei Zvyagintsev Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky & Sergey Melkumov Written by Oleg Negin & Zvyagintsev Released by Zeitgeist Films Russian with English subtitles. Russia. 109 min. Not rated With Nadezhda Markina, Andrei Smirnov, Yelena Lyadova, Alexey Rozin, Evgenia Konushkina & Igor Ogurtsov Sometimes a festival jury gets it right, recognizing an unknown filmmaker […]
Edited, Written & Directed Hirokazu Kore-eda Produced by Kentaro Koike & Hijiri Taguchi Released by Magnolia Pictures Japanese with English subtitles Japan. 128 min. Not rated With Koki Maeda, Ohshiro Maeda, Ryoga Hayashi, Seinosuke Nagayoshi, Kyara Uchida, Kanna Hashimoto, Rento Isobe, Nene Ohtsuka, Joe Odagiri, Yui Natsukawa & Masami Nagasawa Never for a moment did […]
Written & Directed by Gérald Hustache-Mathieu Produced by Isabelle Madelaine Released by First Run Features French with English subtitles France. 102 min. Not rated With Jean-Paul Rouve, Sophie Quinton, Guillaume Gouix, Olivier Rabourdin, Clara Ponsot & Arsinée Khanjian She might be the guiding spirit behind the fictional Broadway musical that’s the subject of the television […]
Directed by Nadine Labaki Produced by Anne-Dominique Toussaint Written by Labaki, Jihad Hojeily & Rodney Al Haddad Released by Sony Pictures Classics France/Lebanon/Egypt/Italy. 100 min. Rated PG-13 English, Arabic & Russian with English subtitles With Labaki, Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Julien Farhat, Yvonne Maalouf, Oxana Chihane Where Do We Go Now? is about as feel-good a […]