Starry Starry Night
Mei’s parents are having problems, and her grandfather’s health is deteriorating, so she turns to her imagination until she meets Jay.
Tagged: mood: escapist
Sleeping Beauty
While not the Kubrickesque film that many expected, Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty manages to present an interesting look into an unfamiliar world that will captivate some and frustrate others.
Post Mortem (Chilean Film)
A surreal romantic drama overlaid political drama set in Chile in 1973, the year in which the military staged a coup against Salvador Allende.
Super (2010)
Super is a comedy drama about people that pretend to be superheroes, that never becomes a superhero movie.
Sucker Punch
When 20-year-old Baby Doll loses her mother she knows instantly that she has to protect herself and her little sister from their stepfather. But things don’t go as planned: Baby Doll’s sister is dead, she has a gun in her hand and her stepfather winds up committing her to a mental institution.
Paco and the Magical Book
Tetsuya Nakashima’s Paco and the Magical Book tells the story of grumpy old Okunuki (Yakusho) as he enters a board meeting and is sent to a hospital, in which he meets a whole bunch of picturesque characters, including a little girl named Paco who can only retain memories for a day.
Rabbit Hole (2010)
John Cameron Mitchell takes on the adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire’s play of the same name, which tells the story of a couple grieving the loss of their son. However, the story is far from mere drama and is infused with dark comedy… to ease the pain.
Boy (New Zealand Film)
Boy is the story of Alamein. We follow him in the house he lives in with his grandmother, all of his cousins and his little brother. Boy loves Michael Jackson, the hotter older girl that attends his school and his cool dad that is off somewhere in the world.
Undertow (Peruvian Film)
Selected by Peru to represent them at the upcoming Academy Awards, Undertow tells the story of Miguel, a fisherman in the small town of Cabo Blanco, where he is having a baby with his wife Mariela, but no one knows that Miguel is having an extramarital affair with Santiago.
