New Directors/New Films: A Roundup
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New Directors/New Films: A Roundup
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STILL FROM MARYAM KESHAVARZ'S CIRCUMSTANCE (NOT COVERED IN MY REPORTS)
NEW DIRECTORS/NEW...
Athina Rachel Tsangari: Attenberg (2010)
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EVANGELINA RANDOU AND ARIANE LABED IN ATTENBERG
Sex and death and primate...
Deron Albright: The Destiny of Lesser Animals (2011)
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YAO B. NUNOO (RIGHT) IN THE DESTINY OF LESSER ANIMALS
In quest of identity, and a fake...
Daniel and Diego Vega: Octubre (2010)
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CLEMENTE'S 'OFFICE' IN OCTUBRE: CLIENT'S SEAT ON THE LEFT, HIS ON THE RIGHT
A reluctant...
Vladimir Kott: Gromozeka (2011)
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POLINA FOLONENKO AND LEINID GROMOV IN GROMOZEKA
Three characters in search of significance
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Koji Fukada: Hospitalité (2010)
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With a friend like Kagawa
The oddly-titled Hospitalité (Kantai), Koji Fukada's film set in working-class...
Sameh Zoabi: Man Without a Cell Phone (2010)
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BASSEM LOULOU IN MAN WITHOUT A CELL PHONE
Nowhere much to go
Sameh Zoab's genial but...
Paddy Considine: Tyrannosaur (2010)
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PETER MULLAN IN TYRANNOSAUR
The actor Paddy Considine produces a powerful writing-directing debut...
Ahmad Abdalla: Microphone (2010)
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KHALED ABOL NAGA IN MICROPHONE
An Alexandrian expatriate finds a mélange of new arts in bloom
...
Rebecca Zlotowski: Belle Épine (2010)
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JOHAN LIBÉREAU AND LÉA SEYDOUX IN LA BELLE ÉPINE
Nice girl seeks leather boys
The director...
P. David Ebersole: Hit So Hard (2011)
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AUF DER MAUR, ERLANDSON, SCHEMEL, AND LOVE IN HOLE'S HEYDAY
A rock musician felled by drugs who...
Dee Rees: Pariah (2011)
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AASSHA DAVIS AND ADEPERO ODUYE IN PARIAH
Gay soul sister comes of age
"If Aliki, a sassy 17-year-old...
Denis Côté: Curling (2010)
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EMMANUEL BILODEAU IN CURLING
Overprotective dad and a pileup of corpses
In Denis Côté's miserabilist...
Göran Hugo Olsson: The Black Power Mixtape: 1967-1975 (2011)
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VINTAGE COLOR FROM THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE
A Swedish look at the Black Power era
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Mohamed Diab: Cairo 678 (2010)
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A campaign against Cairo gropers
The title stands for a crowded Cairo bus where women are routinely harassed sexually...
Pia Marais: At Ellen's Age (2010)
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JEANNE BALIBAR (LEFT) AND STEFAN STERN (RIGHT) IN AT ELLEN'S AGE
A woman poised on the edge -- very poised
Pia...
Anne Sewitsky: Happy, Happy (2010)
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JOACHIM RAFAELSEN, AGNES KITTELSEN, MAIBRITT SAERENS, HENRIK RAFAELSEN IN HAPPY, HAPPY
Danish couples comedy with...
Seren Yüce: Majority (2010)
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ESME MADRA AND BARTU KÜÇÜKÇAGLAYAN IN MAJORITY
Indecision and ethnic issues in Istanbul
Seren Yüce is a young Turkish...
Denis Villeneuve: Incendies (2010)
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LUBNA AZABAL IN INCENDIES
"Fire," "burnings," a strange family history and a parable of sectarian war
When you...
Bogdan George Apetri: Outbound (2010)
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ANA ULARU IN OUTBOUND
A long day's desolate ride
Romanian director Apetri's powerful Outbound has some...
Mikaël Hers: Memory Lane (2010)
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THIBAULT VINÇON IN MEMORY LANE
Summer and this and that
Memory Lane is the first feature of La Fémis Paris cinema...
Hongqi Li: Winter Vacation (2010)
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Much ado; but then, not so much
Hongqi Li, who has been a hit at the Locarno festival, reminds me of the...
J.C. Chandor: Margin Call (2011)
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KEVIN SPACEY IN MARGIN CALL
A cooler drama of financial meltdown
Margin Call is a dark, elegant-looking,...
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INDEX OF LINKS TO REVIEWS IN THIS SECTION:
At Ellen's Age (Pia Marais 2010)
Attenberg (Athina Rachel...
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Isild Le Besco: Bas-Fonds (2010) -- FILM COMMENT SELECTS
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NOÉMIE LE CARRER, VALÉRIE...