THE GIRL AND THE SPIDER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “As her roommate Lisa prepares to move out of their apartment, Mara contemplates the end of an era. Furniture is moved, walls painted, cupboards built. Amid all the hustle and bustle, secret longings and desires come to the surface and coalesce around the roommates as well as around Lisa’s mother Astrid.”
4/11/22- Very good reviews for this drama from Germany. TRDB.
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DONBASS- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In the Donbass region of Eastern Ukraine, mid-2010s: a hybrid war takes place, involving an open armed conflict alongside killings and robberies on a mass scale perpetrated by Russian-separatist gangs. In the Donbass, war is called peace, propaganda is uttered as truth, and hatred is declared to be love. Life is suffused with fear and suspicion. What is real and what is fake news? Called “a darkly satirical omnibus of scathing vignettes” by the Washington Post, DONBASS serves as a crucial interpretation of the Russo-Ukrainian war, but the film is not, ultimately, a tale of one region or one conflict.”
4/10/2022. Good reviews for this foreign drama. TRDB.
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GAGARINE- 2020. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Teenager Youri (gifted newcomer Alseni Bathily) has lived his whole life in the tight-knit community of Gagarine, even being named after the famed Russian cosmonaut who inaugurated it in 1963. From the heights of his apartment, the science wiz dreams of becoming an astronaut. But when plans to demolish his home are leaked, Youri joins the resistance, embarking on a mission to save Gagarine.”
4/4/22- Excellent reviews!! TRDB.
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THE ROSE MAKER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Eve is one of France’s greatest artisanal horticulturalists, but her rose business is business facing imminent bankruptcy or liquidation. When her secretary hires three inexperienced ex-convicts, they must team up to rescue the business in this verdant comedy.”
4/4/22- Excellent reviews for this French drama. TRDB.
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NITRAM- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Nitram (Caleb Landry-Jones) lives with his mother (Judy Davis) and father (Anthony LaPaglia) in suburban Australia in the Mid 1990s. He lives a life of isolation and frustration at never being able to fit in. That is until he unexpectedly finds a close friend in a reclusive heiress, Helen (Essie Davis).”
4/3/22- Excellent reviews by the critics and fair ones from audiences. TRDB.
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WOOD AND WATER- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “Anke retires from her job at the church in a small town in the Black Forest. She looks forward to reuniting with her children over the summer holidays by the Baltic Sea, at a place where they used to live as a young family, and where she lived her best years.”
3/27/22- Excellent reviews for this German drama. TRDB.
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JOSEP- 2020. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “During the Spanish civil war, Republican fighters fleeing Franco’s dictatorship are imprisoned in concentration camps once they arrive in France. Forced to live in appalling conditions, these refugees barely have access to hygiene, water, and food. Josep tells the story of how Josep Bartoli?, an artist born in Barcelona, and Serge, a sympathetic French camp guard, become friends after Serge slips him some paper to use for his art.”
3/22/22- Good to excellent reviews. TRDB.
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AHED”S KNEE- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “A celebrated Israeli filmmaker named Y arrives in a remote desert village to present one of his films at a local library. Struggling to cope with the recent news of his mother’s terminal illness, he is pushed into a spiral of rage when the host of the screening, a government employee, asks him to sign a form placing restrictions on what he can say at the film’s Q&A.”
3/21/22- Fair to good reviews. TRDB.
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COMPARTMENT No 6- 2021. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.”
3/17/21- Very good reviews especially from the critics. TRDB.
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PLAYGROUND- 2022. Synopsis by Rotten Tomatoes. “In this debut feature by writer-director Laura Wandel, the everyday reality of grade school is seen from a child’s-eye-view as an obstacle course of degradation and abuse.”
3/10/22- Excellent reviews by all for this French drama. TRDB.
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