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Anything You Want
Spain, 2010, 101 min.
Traditional male and female gender roles are tossed out the window in this intelligent and affecting feature about a newly widowed Madrid father who takes radical action to comfort his grieving four-year-old daughter. Filmmaker Achero Mañas strikes an emotional chord in this film about unconditional... more
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Black Bread
Spain, 2010, 108 min.
A ten-year-old boy confronts an adult world of lies, myths, wicked crimes and painful revelations in post-Civil War Catalonia. Be advised the film contains a scene that may offend those with a heightened sensitivity regarding cruelty to animals, though no animals were harmed during the shooting of t... more
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Carancho
Argentina, 2010, 107 min.
With crisp, tight editing, this lean and suspenseful thriller featuring Ricardo Darin (The Secret In Their Eyes) takes us through accident sites, hospital wards, and seedy interior settings that would be perfectly in place in a Hollywood noir. Carancho is the latest example of director Trapero’s tra... more
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Even the Rain
Spain, 2010, 104 min.
An idealistic young director has to move production of his period piece to Bolivia so as to save on labor costs. There he encounters a population in civic upheaval. This powerful and layered film lays bare the hypocrisies of a post-colonial world where injustices to the dispossessed continue uncheck... more
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My Life with Carlos
Chile, 2010, 82 min.
The director was only a year old when his father was brutally killed under the Pinochet regime. In this arresting documentary he revisits the legacy of the man he never knew and the regime that devastated the country.... more
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Puzzle
Argentina, 2010, 87 min.
An Argentine housewife discovers a talent for jigsaw puzzles, much to the bewilderment of her affectionate but oblivious husband and two grown sons. As she pursues and perfects her puzzle-solving skills, she quietly finds her passion and asserts her independence.... more
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Waste Land
Brazil, 2010, 98 min.
An unlikely collaboration between Vik Muniz, one of the world's leading visual artists, and the catadores who pick recyclable materials out of Rio's Jardim Gramacho, the world's largest garbage dump, forms one of the year's most lauded documentary films.... more
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