The Colour Room, from director Claire McCarthy, tells the story of English ceramic artist Clarice Cliff as she struggled in the 1920s to get her talent and her ideas noticed and accepted.
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Carmen is a treat for fans of Natascha McElhone. She’s in every inch of this magical film. It’s set in 1980s Malta, where Carmen’s life had been ruled by the Catholic Church and the patriarchy until the fateful day when
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The Lost King is based on a true story about a British woman named Philippa Langley who became obsessed with finding the 500 year old grave of King Richard III (1452-1485). Sally Hawkins plays Philippa Langley with verve and enthusiasm.
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God’s Crooked Lines (Los renglones torcidos de Dios), a psycholgical thriller from Spain, stars the always excellent Bárbara Lennie as a woman who enters a mental hospital undercover to investigate a murder.
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Nelly and Nadine tells the remarkable story of a decades long secret love affair between two women who met in Ravensbrück concentration camp in 1944. This touching documentary explores how Nelly’s family uncovered her diaries and photos after many years
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The Quiet Girl (An Cailín Ciúin), an Irish language film, tells a beautiful and sensitive story about a young girl from a chaotic family who goes to live with a cousin for the summer. It’s her first experience with kindness
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One More Time is a delightful Swedish film about a woman on her 40th birthday who finds herself reliving her 18th birthday again and again.
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Where the Tracks End (El Último Vagón) tells a heartwarming story from Mexico about education, family, and the value of a good book. It stars Adriana Barraza as a teacher in an impoverished Mexican village near a railroad line being
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Food and Romance (Tisdagsklubben), from Sweden, provides a charming #EldersRock story about love, marriage, children, and food. The Swedish title translates to The Tuesday Club, and in some locales the film uses that title.
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Faithfully Yours is an engaging mystery. This Dutch language film uses plot twists and surprises to keep you interested as the story unrolls. There are some very good liars in the film among a group of untrustworthy characters. Thematically, the
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