Review: Slalom
Competitive sports are hell on the body and the mind. Even more so when you're a teenager with no support system. In Slalom, Lyz (Noée Abita) is an ambitious and…
Review: Keep an Eye Out
One of last year's most strangely entertaining films was Quentin Dupieux's Deerskin about a man's bloody obsession with a deerskin jacket. Dupieux is back this year with another black comedy, this…
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Arty Chick’s Seven Flicks: Week 7
This week's picks won boatloads of Oscars and had nominations galore. They hail from France, and Italy, and Germany, and Spain, and one has no dialogue. When I put together…
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Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 6
This week's picks include two French films that couldn't be more dissimilar, one a psychological thriller, and the other a magical story set in Paris. There's an Italian ode to…
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Arty Chick’s Seven Picks: Week 5
This week’s picks include a healthy dose of Roman decadence, an obsessive and tragic snoop, a ghostly romance, a grieving mother on the warpath, violent union busting, food to die…
Review: The Bare Necessity (Perdrix)
This French comedy is definitely for those who like their films on the quirky side. In it a young woman named Juliette (Maud Wyler, Blue Is the Warmest Colour) is…
Review: The Truth (La Vérité)
Director Hirokazu Koreeda's follow-up to his award winning Shoplifters could not be more different. No longer set in his home country Japan, The Truth is a mother-daughter drama set in…
Review: Deerskin (Le daim)
This has to be one of the oddest movies I've seen in a long while! It's from Quentin Dupieux the writer/director who brought us Rubber. In case you missed that…
Review: Synonyms
Based on the real-life experiences of writer-director Nadav Lapid (The Kindergarten Teacher), Synonyms is the strange story of a young Israeli man named Yoav (Tom Mercier) who comes to Paris to escape…