Sympathy For the Underdog
Japanese auteur Kinji Fukusaku (BATTLE ROYALE, BATTLES WITHOUT HONOR AND HUMANITY) brings impeccable action sequences and grime-soaked maverick filmmaking to his early masterpiece SYMPATHY FOR THE UNDERDOG. A recently released yakuza boss returns home to find a new gang has claimed his old territory and his old compatriots scattered to the winds. Hungry for a […]
Montréal, My Beautiful (Montréal, Ma Belle)
Acclaimed actress Joan Chen (The Last Emperor, Twin Peaks, Lust, Caution, Didi) stars in Montréal, ma belle (Montreal, My Beautiful), a deeply emotional family drama and May-December lesbian love story from Chinese-Canadian director Xiaodan He (A Touch of Spring) Feng Xia (Chen), a 53-year-old Chinese immigrant and mother living in Montreal, has spent her life […]
Miroirs No. 3
Past and present collide in this captivating psychodrama by German filmmaker Christian Petzold (“Phoenix”, “Transit”). The story follows Laura (Paula Beer), a young woman from Berlin who survives a countryside car crash, only to become entangled with a mysterious family. Laura, emotionally shaken by the accident, is taken in by a local woman named Betty […]
