(U.S.; 88 min.) ILM alum Scott Leberecht’s relentlessly original film succeeds against all odds in putting a fresh spin on three of Hollywood’s fetishes: movies about L.A., movies about art and movies about vampires.
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(France; 90 min.) Isabelle Huppert delightfully plays against type as Babou, France’s oldest living teenager, who went on a road trip during the ‘70s and never quite came back.
(Croatia/France; 84 min.) Three brothers, a few elderly neighbors and some sheep are all that remain in a Serbian hamlet.
(Canada; 75 min.) A woman is murdered in a Mennonite community.
(Hungary; 85 min.) This Hungarian comedy has hack soap opera scripter Andras (Sandor Csanyi) living what his therapist calls the most boring soap imaginable
(United States; 82 min.) The lives of 10 fictional women are chronicled in realistic monotony through a series of mostly visual monologues from writer-director Malik Isasis.
(Mexico, Canada; 87 min.) This weird piece of magical realism has a woman washing up on the shores of a Mexican village, stunned and unable to remember who she is
(France; 120 min.) In many ways, Nannerl could be viewed as a budding feminist in Rene Feret’s period piece set.
(Iceland; 90 min.) Fridrik Thor Fridriksson writes and directed this self-deprecating autobiographical story of an Icelandic film director (Kristbjorg Kjeld) coping with his mother’s (Hilmir Snaer Gudnason) Alzheimer’s disease
(U.S.; 105 min.) Big fans of Jenna ( The Office ) Fischer may love her portrayal of Laura, a disaffected dental hygienist with an overbearing family—others may have to strain to glean some pleasure from this dark comedy.
