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TWO OF US / DEUX (Filippo Meneghetti, 2019)
The first film by this Italian director is in French and stars the handsome German actress Barbara Sukowa, who was a kind of muse for Fassbinder, and an actress with the Comédie-Francaise, Madeleine Chevallier. They are impressive. They play a middle-aged lesbian couple in a town in the south of France who have been hiding their relationship for many years but can hide it no more. A glossy film that will appeal to some members of the arthouse audience, a Magnolia release - but also a new subject and a new director, justifying including in ND/NF. There is a call for more movies with older lesbians, and this is a classy one.
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RED MOON TIDE/LÚA VERMELA (Lois Patiño 2020)
More a visual poem than a feature film, this is a gorgeous meditation on myth and witches and demons and drowned people and a Spanish fishing village along the Galician coast, where the filmmaker comes from. (A real ND/NF film.)
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ATLANTIS ( Valentyn Vasyanovych 2019)
A young Ukrainian war veteran with PTSD struggles to make his way back to something like human life. The film consists largely of a series of "prolonged, stationary, symmetrically formal widescreen compositions of activity within various harsh vistas and decrepit interiors" (Dennis Harvey) - but within such formal austerity this is also the portrait of the young guy, and it ends with hope for him. For the physically devastated territory of Ukraine where the war was fought, things are not so hopeful. Winner of the Venice Biennale 2020 "Horizons" section best picture award.
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THE MOLE AGENT/EL AGENTE TOPO (Maite Alberdi 2020)
A tongue-in-cheek Chilean docudrama where an 80-plus man is hired by a detective to infiltrate an old folks home to see of his client's aging mom is being treated alright. It's not totally plausible, and not altogether pleasant. But it is a glimpse of what it might be like to live in a nursing home. Has been well received by some critics.
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GIRAFFE (Anna Sophie Hartmann 2019)
Meditations on family and place and a summer love affair on a Danish island. Skillful use of real people and places with professional actors and beautifully simple open color photography that reminds one of Sally Eauclaire's book.
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THE CLOUD IN HER ROOM 她房间里的云 (Zheng Lu Zinyuan 2020)
A younger Chinese generation equivalent of cinematic hanging out, this loosely autobiographical meander set in the director's native city of Hangzhou (pop, 9 mil.), with boyfriend, possible new boyfriend, and separated parents at New Year's and for her birthday had enough of a new cinematic language to win the top prize at Rotterdam, where it debuted. Zheng Lu Zinyuan is 22, and studied film at USC.
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