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Emancipation

Philipp Müller-Dorn, director · Olive Films
Pages: 1

(In German, with English subtitles)

This odd little movie takes a look at spouse abuse, that is, abuse upon the male spouse by the female.  We follow Dominik, a perfectly wonderful man, maybe a little on the shy side, who meets, falls in love with, and marries a woman, who at first...

 
 
Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem

Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz, directors · Music Box Films
Pages: 1

(In French and Hebrew, with English subtitles)

Unlike Emancipation above, this movie, also about a difficult marriage, is not a comedy.  If you viewed To Take a Wife, discussed in last month’s newsletter, you will be familiar with Viviane and Elisha...

 
 
Leviathan

Andrey Zvyagintsev, director · Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pages: 1

(In Russian, with English subtitles)

We have in this edition of the newsletter three of the 2015 Academy Award nominees, Leviathan, Timbuktu, and Wild Tales.  (Ida, the winner, was reviewed in an earlier edition, and the recently purchased...

 
 
Old Cats

Pedro Peirano and Sebastian Silva, directors

(In Spanish, with English subtitles)

Isadora is living a quiet, sedentary life in her golden years in Santiago, Chile, along with Enrique, her second husband, and her two indulged aged cats.  They are all rather content with their everyday routines, but when the apartment...

 
 
Timbuktu

Abderrahmane Sissako, director · Apud Guilielmum Rastell

(In Tuareg, Bambara, Arabic, and French, with English subtitles)

What would it be like to live under the rule of jihadists?  From what we see in Timbuktu, it would not be at all pleasant, even for devote Muslims – singing is forbidden; women must cover even...

 
 
Wild Tales

Damián Szifron, director · SONY PICTURES
Pages: 1

(In Spanish, with English subtitles)

Six stories, each steeped in brutal irony and a bit of comedy, unfold before us, giving us a creeping sensation that if we don’t behave, this could happen to us.  Each vignette tells a story of revenge in one form or another, revenge...

 
 
Winter Sleep

Nuri Bilge Ceylan, director · Adopt Films
Pages: 1

(In Turkish, with English subtitles)

This dreamy, dialogue-driven, slowly unfolding movie is quite simply astonishing.  Set in the Cappadocia region of Turkey, in the midst of winter, we meet Aydin, a man of the world, a former actor, now a writer, who in his retirement...