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Blessed
Australia, 2009, 115 min.
Focusing on the often-fraught bond between mothers and their children, Blessed unfolds in a blue-collar suburb of Melbourne over the course of 24 hours. The intersecting stories are divided into two parts, told from the viewpoint of the troubled offspring and the struggling moms.... more
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Bride Flight
Netherlands, 2008, 130 min.
Fifty years after they met on a flight to New Zealand, where they were headed to join their already-settled fiancés, three women meet at the funeral of a fellow passenger and discover just how intertwined their lives have been over the past half century.... more
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The Milk of Sorrow
Peru, 2009, 100 min.
Winner of the Golden Bear for best film at the Berlin festival, this striking and supremely stylish drama deals with the aftermath of the war on terrorism through the story of simple maid Fausta and her attempts to come to grips with her illness of fear.... more
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Polytechnique
Canada, 2009, 82 min.
A mesmerizing dramatization of the 1989 massacre by Montreal engineering student Marc Lepine of 14 female students, fuelled by rage at feminist "viragos." The film faithfully recreates the violence in gleaming black and white, but refuses to wallow in it.... more
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Reverse
Poland, 2009, 101 min.
A darkly comic story of three generations of Polish women and the mysterious young man whose presence sparks a series of surprising events that change all of their lives. Best Film, Actress, and Cinematography, Gdynia Film Festival; FIPRESCI Award, Warsaw Film Festival.... more
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Sagan
France, 2009, 116 min.
With perfect attention to period detail and a decidedly sympathetic point of view, director Diane Kurys and actor Sylvie Testud (in a César-nominated performance) bring the controversial life of French author Françoise Sagan to the big screen.... more
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Villon's Wife
Japan, 2009, 114 min.
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai.... more
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Will You Marry Us?
Switzerland, 2009, 90 min.
A charming romantic comedy about a small-town civil servant whose life is thrown for a loop when an old boy friend pops up from her past and they find they still have feelings for each other.
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Woman without Piano
Spain, 2009, 94 min.
Woman without a Piano is a quietly comic look at a Madrid housewife's attempt to escape from her mundane and tedious existence. She has no specific plan, just the fervent hope that she will find the adventure she's so desperately seeking.... more
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