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Happy Hour
By Rebecca Slaman
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March 25, 2024
Arguably Hamaguchi’s breakthrough film internationally, this immersive, intensely moving drama of female friendship and midlife awakening—which won its four leads a shared Best Actress award at the Locarno Film Festival—uses its epic five-plus-hour runtime to show what other films leave out.
Time of the Heathen
By Jordan Raup
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March 22, 2024
Long thought lost and newly restored in 4K, Film at Lincoln Center is pleased to present theater actor-director Peter Kass's only feature, a slow-dawning reckoning of collective guilt and complicity, a tense chase film, and a radical formal experiment.
Love in the Time of Malaria
By Jordan Raup
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March 11, 2024
Sanjiv Shah’s no-holds-barred debut feature is an exuberant and unclassifiable political satire, incorporating expertly written songs, intricate webs of references and gags, and stirring calls to revolution into a portrait of a nation in crisis.
Explanation for Everything
By Rebecca Slaman
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March 1, 2024
A minor confrontation between a high school senior and a teacher during the student’s final exams becomes a talking point in an escalating generational and political conflict in Gábor Reisz’s gripping drama about the anxieties of living in a contemporary world beset by political side-taking.
A Good Place
By Rebecca Slaman
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March 1, 2024
Two young women, Güte (Clara Schwinning) and Margarita (Céline De Gennaro), eke out a living in a remote, sparsely inhabited farming village as radio broadcasts describe an unfolding global crisis—and count down to the launch of a spacecraft that might save humanity—in Katharina Huber’s feature filmmaking debut.
A Different Man
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
Sebastian Stan delivers an ingeniously embodied performance as Edward, an aspiring actor with severe facial disfigurement who jumps at the chance for a new lease on life. Aaron Schimberg’s hotly anticipated third feature is a social satire that wrangles thorny questions of identity and authenticity with slyly virtuosic storytelling flair.
Stress Positions
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
The bewilderment of the early days of COVID is given a manic queer twist in Theda Hammel’s propulsive, brilliantly discombobulating comedy set in Brooklyn in the summer of 2020, evoking the hapless rules of engagement in the ever-shifting borders of queer politics.
A Journey in Spring
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
In a home perched high in the wooded hills outside Taipei, aging married couple Khim-Hok (Jason King) and Siu-Tuan (Yang Kuei-Mei) bicker, gripe, and commiserate, inhabiting the familiar rhythms of a well-trod daily routine—until a sudden death throws their world into a state of muted disarray.
All, or Nothing at All
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
The innovatively conceived and constructed feature debut from Chinese filmmaker Jiajun “Oscar” Zhang takes place entirely within the overwhelming, majestically artificial confines of the vertical “Global Harbor” shopping mall in Shanghai, where pairs of strangers nurse or run from romantic crushes on each other.
Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
By Rebecca Slaman
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February 29, 2024
Writer-director Elene Naveriani’s third feature tells the funny, tender, and erotic story of 48-year-old Etero (Eka Chavleishvili), an unmarried shopkeeper in a Georgian village who is mocked as a spinster by her gossipy friends even as she secretly carries on a torrid affair with a married man.