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Saint Omer Saint Omer
Saint Omer and The Damned Don't Cry
Argentina, 1985 (Country: Argentina, US; Year: 2022; Director: Santiago Mitre; Writer: Mariano Llinás, Santiago Mitre; Stars: Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner, Norman Briski)
A team of lawyers take on the heads of Argentina's bloody military dictatorship during the 1980s in a battle against odds and a race against time.
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Brother (Country: Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Clement Virgo; Writer: David Chariandy, Clement Virgo; Stars: Lamar Johnson, Aaron Pierre, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Kiana Madeira, Lovell Adams-Gray, Maurice Dean Wint, Taveeta Szymanowicz, Dwain Murphy, Anthony Grant, Delia Lisette Chambers, Evan Buliung, Beth Hornby, Mazin Elsadig, Bracken Burns, Kara Wooten)
The story of two sons of Caribbean immigrants maturing amid escalating tensions.
Corsage (Country: Austria, France, Germany, Luxembourg; Year: 2022; Director: Marie Kreutzer; Writer: Marie Kreutzer; Stars: Vicky Krieps, Florian Teichtmeister, Katharina Lorenz, Finnegan Oldfield, Jeanne Werner, Alma Hasun, Manuel Rubey, Colin Morgan, Rosa Hajjaj, Lilly Marie Tschörtner , Aaron Friesz, Ivana Urban, Raphael von Bargen, Alexander Pschill, Regina Fritsch, Raphael Nicholas)
A period drama about Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known as Sisi.
Full Review See: Marie Kreutzer in conversation on Empress Elisabeth of Austria with King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Luchino Visconti, Finnegan Oldfield’s Louis Le Prince and the biographies of Sisi
, Marie Kreutzer in conversation on Corsage, Vicky Krieps as Sisi, singer/songwriter Camille, and the look of the film
, Vicky Krieps in conversation on Marie Kreutzer’s Corsage, Romy Schneider, and Margarethe von Trotta’s Bachmann & Frisch
The Damned Don't Cry (Les Damnes ne pleurent pas) (Country: France, Belgium, Morocco; Year: 2022; Director: Fyzal Boulifa; Writer: Fyzal Boulifa; Stars: Abdellah El Hajjouji, Antoine Reinartz, Aicha Tebbae)
Selim follows his mother from place to place, forever trying to outrun the latest scandal she's been caught up in. When they arrive in Tangier, new opportunities will give them a shot at the legitimacy they each crave – but not without threatening their fragile love for one another.
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Enys Men (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Mark Jenkin; Writer: Mark Jenkin; Stars: John Woodvine, Edward Rowe, Mary Woodvine, Morgan Val Baker, Isaac Woodvine, Callum Mitchell, Dion Star)
A volunteer observing a rare wild flower finds the different worlds that have inhabited the island where she is beginning to collide.
Full Review See: Interview with Mark Jenkin about Enys Men
Corsage Corsage
Corsage and Godland
Godland (Country: Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden; Year: 2022; Director: Hlynur Pálmason; Writer: Hlynur Pálmason; Stars: Hilmar Guðjónsson, Ída Mekkín Hlynsdóttir, Elliott Crosset Hove, Jacob Lohmann, Waage Sandø, Vic Carmen Sonne)
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, his mission and morality.
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Nezouh (Country: Syria, UK, France; Year: 2022; Director: Soudade Kaadan; Writer: Soudade Kaadan; Stars: Samer al Masri, Kinda Alloush, Hala Zein, Nizar Alani)
As a man refuses to flee war-torn Damascus, his wife and daughter face a choice.
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Saint Omer (Country: France; Year: 2022; Director: Alice Diop; Writer: Alice Diop, Marie N'Diaye; Stars: Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit)
A novelist who attends the trial of Laurence Coly at the Saint-Omer Criminal Court tries to use her story to write a modern-day adaptation of the ancient myth of Medea, but things don't go as expected.
Full Review See: Interview with Guslagie Malanda and Kayije Kagame about Saint Omer
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