(Hungary; 85 min.) This Hungarian comedy has hack soap opera scripter Andras (Sandor Csanyi) living what his therapist calls the most boring soap imaginable
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(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.
(Chile, France; 84 min.) Back in Chile after 10 years of rootless hackdom as a travel writer, Andres (Santiago Cabrera) is attending a party at a house where so much happened to him.
(Canada; 92 min.) This disquieting film set in small-town Ontario is sadly plausible only because it is based on “actual events.”
(U.S.; 93 min.) The plot that drives Here’s the Kicker sounds reasonably enough: Couple Simon and Brittany quit their dead-end jobs in Los Angeles and decide to move to Texas to be near Brittany’s family and open a joint business, a combination sports bar and beauty salon—a salon/saloon.
(Netherlands; 100 min.) Having a baby can cause more psychiatric problems than having an abortion, says a study in last month’s New England Journal of Medicine .
