Film Festivals 2009
Looking for Eric (2009)
7.2/10
Director: Ken Loach
Starring: Lucy-Jo Hudson, Steve Evets, Gerard Kearns, Eric Cantona, Matthew McNulty, Steph...
Eric (Steve Evets) the postman is not in a good place. His wife has left him, his stepsons are out of control and his house is a chaotic nightmare. In... Read more
Summer Hours (2008)
7.2/10
Director: Olivier Assayas
Starring: Charles Berling, Dominique Reymond, Juliette Binoche, Jeremie Renier, Edith Scob
Universally acclaimed by critics, the multiple award-winning "Summer Hours" is the great contemporary French filmmaker Olivier Assayas's most personal... Read more
Quiet Chaos (2008)
6.9/10
Director: Antonello Grimaldi
Starring: Nanni Moretti, Valeria Golino, Alessandro Gassman, Isabella Ferrari, Silvio Orla...
Film exec Pietro (Nanni Moretti) faces tragedy when his wife dies in a freak accident. Now left with a ten-year-old daughter to raise alone, he takes... Read more
The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008)
7.4/10
Director: Uli Edel
Starring: Bruno Ganz, Moritz Bleibtreu, Heino Ferch, Martina Gedeck, Nadja Uhl, Alexandra...
Meticulous fact-based drama of the Red Army Faction. Germany in the 1970s: Murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism and the fear of the enemy i... Read more
Mid-August Lunch (2008)
7/10
Director: Gianni Di Gregorio
Starring: Marina Cacciotti, Grazia Cesarini Sforza, Valeria De Franciscis, Alfonso Santaga...
A gentle slice of Italian life comedy, in which a middle aged man has to look after four elderly women for a few days. Still living with his 93-year-o... Read more
Thirst (2009)
7.2/10
Director: Chan-wook Park
Starring: Hae-sook Kim, Ok-vin Kim, Young-chang Song, Kang-ho Song
Top Korean star Kang-ho Song plays a devout, kind priest whose life (after-life?) is forever changed by a transfusion of vampire blood that unleashes... Read more
Sin Nombre (2009)
7.6/10
Director: Cary Fukunaga
Starring: Paulina Gaitan, Kristyan Ferrer, Edgar Flores
Seeking the promise of America, a beautiful young woman, Sayra (Paulina Gaitan), joins her father on an odyssey to cross the gauntlet of the Latin Ame... Read more
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine (2008)
6.9/10
Director: Marion Cajori, Amei Wallach
Starring: Louise Bourgeois
A film journey inside the life and imagination of an icon of modern art. As a screen presence, Louise Bourgeois is magnetic, mercurial and emotionally... Read more
Adventureland (2009)
6.8/10
Director: Greg Mottola
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Martin Starr, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Margar...
It's the summer of '87, and uptight college grad James (Jesse Eisenberg) has just had to give up a trip to Europe for a job at the local amusement par... Read more
Broken Embraces (2009)
7.2/10
Director: Pedro Almodovar
Starring: Penelope Cruz, Jose Luis Gomez, Tamar Novas, Blanca Portillo, Lluis Homar, Ruben...
Pedro Almodovar's acclaimed tale of sex, secrets and cinema centers on Mateo Blanco (Lluis Homar), a blind writer and filmmaker who now goes by the mo... Read more