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The 3 Little Pigs
Canada, 2007, 124 min.
In his directorial debut, Patrick Huard shows remarkable assurance in this story about three sex-obsessed brothers and their heated consideration of the pros and cons of infidelity. Inventive, bawdy, politically incorrect, and frequently hilarious.... more
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881
Singapore, 2007, 105 min.
Vivid hues and exuberant singing and dancing are the central aesthetic in this warm and earthy musical fantasy from Singapore that explores the relationship between two sisters in a popular getai band.... more
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The Art of Negative Thinking
Norway, 2007, 79 min.
This transgressive black comedy skewers PC correctness toward the disabled, as a wheelchair-bound accident victim challenges the conventional pieties of a therapy group for the handicapped. A multiple award winner, it provides a cathartic message about the need to accept reality.... more
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Boystown
Spain, 2007, 93 min.
A real estate agent is murdering elderly women in the gay Chueca district of Madrid so as to acquire their apartments and sell them to upwardly mobile gay couples. Juan Flahn’s delicious black comedy combines hilarity and violence to startling effect.... more
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Breakfast With Scot
Canada, 2007, 95 min.
Sam and Ed are a pretty buttoned-down gay couple. Sam, a former pro-hockey player, is a straight-acting sports broadcaster. When Ed’s nephew, Scot—who wears make-up, knits and adores show tunes—enters their lives, things have to change in this charming comedy. ... more
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Caramel
Lebanon, 2007, 96 min.
A bittersweet comedy set in a Beirut beauty parlor centered on five women. Layele and her friends are threads that weave a portrait of women muddling through the uncertainties of a culture caught between the modern and the traditional, yet never giving up hope of love.... more
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Charm School
Mexico, 2007, 103 min.
Fernando Sariñana’s comedy about youthful rebellion and adult intolerance focuses on the willful Adela (Martha Higareda) who, after being sent to a strict school for girls in order to have her wild ways tamed, refuses to crack…... more
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Conversations with my Gardener
France, 2007, 108 min.
French stars Daniel Auteuil and Jean-Pierre Darroussin play middle-aged men from different social strata—an artist and a gardener—who discover life anew by seeing the world through one another’s eyes.... more
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Dasepo Naughty Girls
South Korea, 2006, 103 min.
While attending No Use High School, Poor Girl has fallen head-over-heels for rich kid Anthony, who in turn has an obsession with the class virgin's sister. If their paths are to cross, they'll have to negotiate a demon principal, a transgendered hottie and numerous karaoke sing-a-longs.... more
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Days of Darkness
Canada, 2007, 104 min.
Final part of a trilogy that began with Decline of the American Empire and The Barbarian Invasions. Everyman Jean-Marc escapes his Kafkaesque office and arid home life into a fantasy world of glamour and power in this witty dissection of the malaise of contemporary life.... more
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Getting Home
Hong Kong, 2007, 101 min.
When Liu dies unexpectedly, Zhao travels thousands of miles across China to bring the body home. With no money and a corpse on his back, Zhao’s Chaplinesque tragicomic odyssey has him experience all kinds of situations from clever to pathetic to hilarious.... more
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Gone With the Woman
Norway, 2007, 92 min.
A fast-paced screwball comedy about a man’s first tentative steps into the potential disaster area of love, about the female monologues that pass for dialogue, and the right of modern man to decide who wears the pants in the family.... more
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Hairspray (Sing-a-long version)
USA, 2007, 117 min.
One of the happiest movie musicals in decades is brought to you in a special edition, which includes the lyrics to each song subtitled on screen so you can tap your toes, snap your fingers and sing along to your favorite numbers!... more
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Hounds
Germany, 2007, 86 min.
His mother having run off, 16-year old Lars feels even more isolated when he discovers his father is having an affair. But with the entrance of a young mute girl, it appears that his luck is about to change. A delicate blend of coming-of-age story and dysfunctional family comedy.... more
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How About You
Ireland, 2007, 100 min.
A stellar cast—Vanessa Redgrave, Imelda Staunton, Joss Ackland, Brenda Fricker—anchors Anthony Byrne’s rollicking comedy centered on an Irish retirement home and the extremely rude (and very funny) denizens therein.... more
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Kenny
Australia, 2006, 103 min.
From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, working-class hero Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Funnier than Borat and full of heart, Kenny is living proof that in sewage, as in life, the best will always rise to the top.... more
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Late Bloomers
Switzerland, 2006, 86 min.
This charming comedy about how the opening of a lingerie shop scandalizes a small Swiss village proves that it’s still possible to have dreams and reach your goals at a mature age.... more
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Lovesickness
Puerto Rico, 2007, 83 min.
Tales of maddening infatuation - a surprising love triangle, an unfaithful marriage and a hostage situation - weave together artfully in the backyards of Puerto Rico. Passion defeats reason again and again in this melancholy comedy about the selfish search for love and connection.... more
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A Man's Job
Finland, 2007, 85 min.
When a father of three is laid off from his factory job, he finds himself a new profession as a male escort. Although at times explicit and containing some delicate material, it’s more social commentary than exploitative or scandalous.... more
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Mister Foe
United Kingdom, 2007, 95 min.
Teenage oddball Hallam (Jamie Bell) leads a secluded, semi-feral life. Leaving his fat-cat father’s country estate for Edinburgh, his close encounter with a beautiful young woman who resembles his late mother becomes a rite of passage for him in this playful, edgy comedy.... more
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Night Bus
Italy, 2007, 104 min.
A bus driver meets a girl-on-the-run, and while trying not to fall for her finds himself in the middle of a gang war. Night Bus is film noir with a comic twist.... more
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Noodle
Israel, 2007, 100 min.
This touching comic drama centers on a twice-widowed El Al flight attendant and her quest to reunite a young Chinese boy and his migrant worker mother, who has been summarily deported from Israel.... more
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Numb
Canada, 2007, 93 min.
Hudson Milbank (Matthew Perry) is a screenwriter who smokes a too-strong joint that sends him over the edge into what is diagnosed as “depersonalization disorder,” the sense that everything around him is unreal. He meets the girl of his dreams, making his race to recovery imperative, and he seeks ou... more
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Out at the Wedding
USA, 2007, 96 min.
Alex can’t bring herself to tell her conservative family she is engaged to her bi-racial boyfriend. A misunderstood wedding speech and a rumor she’s a lesbian later, her newly-married sister comes to visit for some family bonding. However, when she meets Alex’s stand-in “girlfriend” all bets are off... more
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Persepolis
France, 2007, 95 min.
A darkly humorous animation based on Marjane Satrapi’s experiences as a spirited young Muslim woman coming of age—from mischievous schoolgirl to rebellious teenager and beyond—against the turbulent background of Iran’s recent past.... more
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Poltergay
France, 2006, 93 min.
Poltergeist meets Saturday Night Fever with a gay spin in this footloose horror spoof that tells the tale of a young couple who unassumingly buy a mansion haunted by disco dancing homosexuals. This breezy comedy is guilty pleasure fun, with a monstrous ’70s musical score.... more
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Roman de Gare
France, 2007, 104 min.
French veteran Claude Lelouch is at the top of his form in this playful romp that takes as its starting point the premise that crime writer Judith (Fanny Ardant) may be using the writings of a genuine serial killer to fill her popular novels…... more
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The Roses of the Desert
Italy, 2006, 102 min.
A Sanitary Unit of the Italian army in the Libyan desert in 1940 has to face abruptly the reality of war . A bittersweet comedy on war and men told by a maestro of Italian Cinema, Mario Monicelli.... more
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Run, Fat Boy, Run
United Kingdom, 2007, 101 min.
Desperate, out of shape Dennis tries to win back the woman he abandoned in a moment of stupidity—by running a marathon. But can he find the discipline required to pull off a miracle in this laugh-out-loud funny tale of the distance one average Joe will run for love?... more
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Stealth
Switzerland, 2006, 112 min.
Lionel lives the good life: a steady job, a handsome boyfriend and a supportive family. But when he unexpectedly finds out that his ancestors may, in fact, be Polish he takes off with his sister for points east, and on the way, they discover their true selves in this warm, witty and authentic voyage... more
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Then She Found Me
USA, 2007, 100 min.
With a seriously ticking biological clock, a recalcitrant husband and a recent bombshell about her own paternity, 39-year old schoolteacher April negotiates an emotional minefield to reconcile her blood family and the family of her dreams. This well-observed comedy is actress Helen Hunt’s directoria... more
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Walk the Talk
USA, 2006, 105 min.
After shooting his older brother, rebellious teenager Roy is paroled into the care of his uncle Erik, a successful self-help guru with a seemingly picture-perfect life and family. Walk the Talk is both a hilarious satire on pop psychology and traditional family values and a moving story of fi... more
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Watching the Detectives
USA, 2007, 92 min.
Cillian Murphy and Lucy Liu star in this loopy screwball farce about a self-proclaimed film geek who finds himself swept into a predicament right out of the movies when a thrill-seeking femme fatale enters his life.... more
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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Brazil, 2006, 110 min.
With Brazil’s soccer team competing for its third World Cup, 12-year old Mauro’s political activist parents take a ‘vacation’, leaving him to flounder in the alien world of his upright Yiddish grandfather in this charming, wide-eyed coming-of-age saga.... more
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You, the Living
Sweden, 2007, 95 min.
Described by the director as a “mosaic of human destinies” on the theme of “how to behave around others,” this is a triumph of tragicomedy from one of the cinema’s most sardonic imaginations. ... more
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