On (much fewer) screens, we have Jack Black as Bernie, who appears to be a con man romancing older woman Shirley MacLaine. The movie closed out the L.A. Film Festival last summer. I saw Mamitas during that time. It's a decent coming-of-age film about a Hispanic high schooler struggling to get it right. Of a completely different economical class, Juliette Binoche plays a fashion magazine writer in Elles who discovers her own sexual repression while interviewing prostitutes. It screened last year at Toronto. My favorite part of the movie was the commentary from the lady sitting next to me with her husband. "Once upon a time, they called this pornography."
Restless City depicts a Senegalese man trying to make it in New York City as a musician. You can watch the first eleven minutes of Sound of My Voice from Brit Marling. I tried Another Earth a few months ago and couldn't get passed the first couple minutes. Not sure if I could handle this movie about cults either. The Scandinavian Headhunters is an action film involving a man in debt who loves money. Taiwan offers epic movie Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale covering a part of their history involving their indigenous people standing up to their Japanese occupiers in the 1930s. There is also documentary Payback, an examination of what we as individuals owe to nature and society in terms of what we take from it. Inventing Our Life: The Kibbutz Experiment details a once popular Jewish communal alternative lifestyle that is slowly dying.
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