It’s November – a time for Thanksgiving, feasts, and the presence of relatives. If you have some time off (or are trying to grab some much-needed alone time), here is a list of films opening throughout the coming weeks, separated into categories of wide and limited runs. (Synopses are provided by festivals and distributors.)
Each week we will have more updates and information, so be sure to keep coming back. You can also check our calendar page, which has releases for the rest of the year. Eat well and keep watching!
Week of November 4 Wide
Trolls
Director: Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Christine Baranski, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Gwen Stefani, Icona Pop, James Corden, Jeffrey Tambor, John Cleese, Justin Timberlake, Kunal Nayyar, Quvenzhané Wallis, Ron Funches, Russell Brand, Zooey Deschanel
Synopsis: After the Bergens invade Troll Village, Poppy, the happiest Troll ever born, and the overly-cautious curmudgeonly Branch set off...
Each week we will have more updates and information, so be sure to keep coming back. You can also check our calendar page, which has releases for the rest of the year. Eat well and keep watching!
Week of November 4 Wide
Trolls
Director: Mike Mitchell, Walt Dohrn
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Christine Baranski, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Gwen Stefani, Icona Pop, James Corden, Jeffrey Tambor, John Cleese, Justin Timberlake, Kunal Nayyar, Quvenzhané Wallis, Ron Funches, Russell Brand, Zooey Deschanel
Synopsis: After the Bergens invade Troll Village, Poppy, the happiest Troll ever born, and the overly-cautious curmudgeonly Branch set off...
- 11/4/2016
- by Zipporah Smith
- Indiewire
Coming of age films come a dime a dozen. Seemingly once a week, a new film looking into a character’s journey from adolescence to young adulthood arrives, with varying degrees of success and intellectual import. However, few are able to balance on that line between genuinely enthralling drama and maudlin melodrama quite like writer/director Anna Muylaert’s Don’t Call Me Son.
The story found within the tautly wound 82 minute run time of Muylaert’s latest film, Son seems like one you’d find in an arch melodrama, but is in actuality a decidedly singular deeply universal journey through one person’s coming of age. Pierre (newcomer Naomi Nero) is an androgynous, handsome 17-year-old who is as tall as he is mysteriously alluring. Already trying to decipher just exactly who he is as made clear by his sexual experimentation with both men and women as well as his affinity for a good,...
The story found within the tautly wound 82 minute run time of Muylaert’s latest film, Son seems like one you’d find in an arch melodrama, but is in actuality a decidedly singular deeply universal journey through one person’s coming of age. Pierre (newcomer Naomi Nero) is an androgynous, handsome 17-year-old who is as tall as he is mysteriously alluring. Already trying to decipher just exactly who he is as made clear by his sexual experimentation with both men and women as well as his affinity for a good,...
- 11/4/2016
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
NewFest, New York's Lgbt Festival, runs through Tuesday. Here's Chris on three of the festival's foreign selections...
Don't Call Me Son
Anna Muylaert continues to explore complex family dynamics in Don't Call Me Son, her follow-up to last year's Brazilian Oscar submission The Second Mother. Teenage Pierre (Naomi Nero) and his younger sister have their lives upended when their mother is jailed for stealing them at birth, thrusting them apart and into the homes of their birth parents. Further complicating the film's identity politics is Pierre's burgeoning gender dysphoria...
Don't Call Me Son
Anna Muylaert continues to explore complex family dynamics in Don't Call Me Son, her follow-up to last year's Brazilian Oscar submission The Second Mother. Teenage Pierre (Naomi Nero) and his younger sister have their lives upended when their mother is jailed for stealing them at birth, thrusting them apart and into the homes of their birth parents. Further complicating the film's identity politics is Pierre's burgeoning gender dysphoria...
- 10/24/2016
- by Chris Feil
- FilmExperience
Brazilian filmmaker Anna Muylaert's follow-up to her Sundance and Berlin prizewinner "The Second Mother" (2015) follows Pierre (Naomi Nero), a gender-bending 17-year-old, after he finds out that his "adoptive" mother, Arcay (Dani Nefussi), kidnapped him at birth — and as he grapples with meeting his more conservative biological parents, Gloria (also played by Nefussi) and Matheus (Matheus Nachtergaele). Read More: "Fest Hit 'The Second Mother' Brings Success — and Pain" Though it starts off jazzy and freewheeling, the trailer soon gets to the meat of what The Hollywood Reporter calls "an energetic and enlightening look at tangled family ties." Knocked sideways by the news, Pierre, born Felipe, must confront his mother's arrest, his new family's traditional expectations — "You paint your nails?" Gloria asks — and the affect of this clash of nature and nurture on his own identity. Loco reportedly attracted several...
- 2/17/2016
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
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