August 8, 2011

Pater (2011) *

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Strange French film. Totally baffling.

Un Monstre a Paris (2011) *

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A rather boring animated feature about a giant bug terrorizing Paris.

Toutes nos envies (2011) **

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Marie Gillain plays a dying judge who tries to help a heavily indebted woman.

Polisse (2011) ***

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My Little Princess (2011) ***

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La Guerre est declaree (2011) ***

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Les Femmes du 6ieme etage (2011) ***

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L'Exercice de l'Etat (2011) ***

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Ces amours-la (2011) ***

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Angele et Tony (2011) ***

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After Fall Winter (2011) ***

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Jeanne captive (2011) ***

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Les Lyonnais (2011) *

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La Source des femmes (2011) **

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Presumé coupable (2011) *

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A horrifying miscarriage of justice. Based on a true story. There are many very strong moments, but the film fails to present a coherent emo...

Omar m'a tuer (2011) *

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17 filles (2011) *

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French drama about an epidemy of pregnancies among teenage girls.

La Vie meilleure (2011) *

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Depressing French drama about some very bad business decisions leading to a life of misery and despair.

La Conquête (2011) **

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Political drama about Nicholas Sarkozy's presidential campaign. The film presents him in a highly sympathetic light, but also suggests t...

Intouchables (2011) **

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Popular French comedy about a black ghetto kid helping a rich white paraplegic cope with life.

Elle ne pleure pas elle chante (2011) ***

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Une Pure affaire (2011) *

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A lawyer finds a bag full of cocaine and becomes a drug dealer. "Breaking Bad", French-style.
July 7, 2011

The Skin I Live In (2011) ***

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Eternal Ashes (2011) ***

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Las Acacias (2011) **

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A road trip from Paraguay to Buenos Aires.

Caged (2011) ***

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Bullhead (2011) ***

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Above Us Only Sky (2011) ***

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Pina (2011) **

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Innovative choreography.

Footnote (2011) **

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Mlyn i krzyz (2011) ***

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Miss Bala (2011) ***

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She Monkeys (2011) ***

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The Slut (2011) ***

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Ticket To Paradise (2011) ***

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Tilt (2011) ***

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Truth Of Lie (2011) ***

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Underwater Love (2011) ***

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Uwiklanie (2011) ***

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Zhila-byla odna baba (2011) ***

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Nessuno mi puo giudicare (2011) **

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Hollywood-style Italian comedy about a spoiled rich woman who finds herself destitute after her husband's death and has to pay his debts...

Transit Cities (2011) *

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Jordanian drama about a prodigal daughter returning home.

Amnesty (2011) *

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La Bellezza del somaro (2011) *

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Typical Italian comedy set in a country house in Toscany, full of cheating husbands, neurotic wives, spoiled children, big snakes, donkeys a...

The Roadside House (2011) *

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Russian drama about a man who befriends the wife of a man he injured in a road accident.

Terraferma (2011) **

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Italian drama about the refugee crisis.

Elles (2011) ***

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Excellent film about a journalist (Juliette Binoche) researching an article about prostitution in Paris. 

Le Havre (2011) **

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Another weird comedy from Aki Kaurismaki.

Et maintenant on va où? (2011) **

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Lebanese drama about religious conflicts between Muslims and Christians in a remote little village. An uneasy mix of the serious and the com...

Crazy-ism (2011) *

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A Japanese "Reservoir Dogs", only nowhere near as good.

Fish And Chips (2011) *

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A BBC (British-Born Cypriot) returns to Cyprus.

Loverboy (2011) ***

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Little Surfer Girl (2011) ***

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Febre do Rato (2011) ***

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Cracks In The Shell (2011) ***

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Corpo celeste (2011) ***

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Che bella giornata (2011) **

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Hollywood-style Italian comedy about an incompetent guard seduced by a beautiful Muslim terrorist.

Five Square Meters (2011) *

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Boring Spanish drama about real estate.

The Graveyard Keeper's Daughter (2011) *

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Estonian drama about a young girl, her father and her alcoholic mother.

Innocence (2011) *

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Czech drama about a doctor falsely accused of seducing a 14-year-old patient, but guilty of equally serious sexual transgressions. Daring su...

Body (2011) *

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Turkish drama about a porn actress trying to rebuilt her life. While the subject matter is daring, the treatment is ultra-conservative and m...

Adventure (2011) *

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A story of adultery in Horthy's Hungary.