Way behind in listing links to 2015 ND/NF reviews here, sorry. The press screening schedule has been intense. Only one more left now Friday, March 13.

Stéphane Lafleur: TU DORS NICOLE (2014)

Québecois director Lafleur's dry whimsey evoking Einbecke, Kaurismaki, et al. is charming and quietly distinctive but not, perhaps in retrospective, very memorable this time. In black and white, it depicts a young woman slacker's summer days. No agenda but "Pleasure is pleasure," D'Angelo wrote.

Kornel Mundruczco: WHITE GOD (2014)

This is one of those much talked about films that turns out to be much ado about nothing (another this year is the Ukrainian deaf-mute teenage gang movie THE TRIBE). D'Angelo's declaration "This movie's stupid" is not far wrong. Besides remarkable dog wrangling, this turns out to be poor and pointless storytelling whose "metaphor" about oppression of minorities doesn't computer in detail very well.