Dec 282011
 
La guerre est déclarée

La guerre est déclarée (2011)

Cast: Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm, César Desseix

Director: Valérie Donzelli

Genre:

Title DECLARATION OF WAR
Logline A young couple embark on a painful, enlightening journey when they discover their newborn child is gravely ill.
Programmer Quotes “Not the movie you have in your head”
Gardner says: Yo must be saying “First one is a French tear-jerker, huh?!?”  I was originally turned off by this film for fear of cheap pathos, but after hearing it is a unique take on a depression subject, I will reconsider.
Director Valérie Donzelli
Screenwriters Jérémie Elkaïm, Valérie Donzelli
Producer Edouard Weil
Cast Jérémie Elkaïm, Valérie Donzelli
Country France

Jan 102011
 

Submarine

UK
Spotlight
I believe it already has distribution thru Weinstein Co.
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Title Old Cats
Logline “Isadora and Enrique, an elderly couple, live a comfortable life with their two ample cats in a handsome high-rise apartment overlooking the park. Isadora is struggling with a bout of dementia when her daughter, Rosario, and her butch female lover, Hugo, drop in for a coked-up visit to pitch their latest get-rich scheme—and attempt to snatch the flat right out from under Isadora.”
Director Pedro Peirano, Sebastián Silva
Screenwriters Pedro Peirano, Sebastián Silva
Cast Belgica Castro, Claudia Celedon, Alejandro Sieveking, Catalina Saavedra, Alejandro Goic, Alicia Rodriguez
Country Chile
Quotes “Charming little comedy”
Gardner says: I love the premise of this movie and that their take is comedic as opposed to massively depressing. However, I am finding mixed descriptions of this and see it listed as a drama.

I would rate it higher, but for my wimpy aversion to subtitles and the number of great movies out there.

30 – KABOOM

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Dec 252010
 
Kaboom

Kaboom (2010)

Cast: Haley Bennett, Thomas Dekker , James Duval

Director: Gregg Araki

Genre: sf, comedy

Title KABOOM
Logline A sci-fi story centered on the sexual awakening of a group of college students.
Director Gregg Araki
Screenwriters Gregg Araki
Country USA
Cast Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Chris Zylka, Roxane Mesquida, Juno Temple, Andy Fischer-Price
Quotes “It’s a vagina, not a bowl of spaghetti.”
Gardner says: Drug-laced cookies, lesbian BFF’s obsessive, witchy girlfriend, and weird guys in masks who chase him around campus.  Sounds like UCSB.
Explicit Trailer after the jump.
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