A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant unravels the mystery, she must confront her own understanding of friendship, truth and celebrity.
Two upper-class teenage girls in suburban Connecticut rekindle their unlikely friendship after years of growing apart. Together, they hatch a plan to solve both of their problems-no matter what the cost.
Director:
Cory Finley
Stars:
Olivia Cooke,
Anya Taylor-Joy,
Anton Yelchin
In Brooklyn, New York, Kyra (Michelle Pfeiffer) loses her job and struggles to survive on her ailing mother's income. As the weeks and months go on, her problems worsen. This leads her on a risky and enigmatic path that threatens her life.
A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear--but is it real or a product of her delusion?
A woman returns to her Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her for her attraction to a female childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.
The general manager at a highway-side ''sports bar with curves" has her incurable optimism and faith, in her girls, her customers, and herself, tested over the course of a long, strange day.
Director:
Andrew Bujalski
Stars:
Regina Hall,
Haley Lu Richardson,
Dylan Gelula
After suffering a near fatal head injury, a young cowboy undertakes a search for new identity and what it means to be a man in the heartland of America.
Following the death of her father, Alice (Ruth Wilson) returns to her home village for the first time in 15 years, to claim the tenancy to the family farm she believes is rightfully hers.
A troubled woman living in an isolated community finds herself pulled between the control of her oppressive family and the allure of a secretive outsider suspected of a series of brutal murders.
Director:
Michael Pearce
Stars:
Jessie Buckley,
Johnny Flynn,
Geraldine James
A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant travels across Los Angeles to unravel the mystery, she must stay one step ahead of a determined policeman and confront her own understanding of friendship, truth and celebrity.
The story is quality, the score is good, but the goals of the director and cinematographer have left me with more questions than answers. What is trying to be accomplished with the (over)use of the color blue? Mise en scène throughout the film is boring. DP included purposefully shaky camera work during car scenes, which I find both interesting and profoundly annoying.
This time, the story was strong enough to make up for the lacking vision from the director.
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The story is quality, the score is good, but the goals of the director and cinematographer have left me with more questions than answers. What is trying to be accomplished with the (over)use of the color blue? Mise en scène throughout the film is boring. DP included purposefully shaky camera work during car scenes, which I find both interesting and profoundly annoying.
This time, the story was strong enough to make up for the lacking vision from the director.