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Deauville Festival of American Cinema · 2013

Deauville Festival of American Cinema 2013

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10 films · 8 reviews

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Ain't Them Bodies Saints

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Lowery's nostalgia works because it is so sincere and does not question America's fascination with Bonnie and Clyde as an excuse for bad deeds.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
Love story about an escaped outlaw and the wife who waits for him.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: David Lowery; Writer: David Lowery; Stars: Rooney Mara, Casey Affleck, Ben Foster, Keith Carradine, Nate Parker, Charles Baker, Heather Kafka, Kentucker Audley, Robert Longstreet)

Full review See: David Lowery interview about Ain't Them Bodies Saints , Sundance 2013: Capsule reviews of Ain't Them Bodies Saints, The East and Stoker

All Is Lost

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It's a courageous performance in more ways than one.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
One man must battle to survive after his boat sinks in the ocean.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: J C Chandor; Writer: J C Chandor; Stars: Robert Redford)

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Blue Ruin

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Visually arresting, impressively taut and enjoyably idiosyncratic.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
Unexpected news transforms an easy-going vagrant into a man bent on revenge.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Jeremy Saulnier; Writer: Jeremy Saulnier; Stars: Devin Ratray, Eve Plumb, Amy Hargreaves, David W Thompson, Bonnie Johnson)

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Breathe In

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Director Drake Doremus handles the material superbly, aware of its pitfalls and sensitive to all the vagaries of human behaviour which make these characters so intriguing.

Robert Munro · 4 out of 5
The arrival of an exchange student reawakens a middle aged man's musical ambitions.

(Country: USA; Year: 2013; Director: Drake Doremus; Writer: Drake Doremus, Ben York Jones; Stars: Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Kyle MacLachlan, Amy Ryan, Alexandra Wentworth, Ben Shenkman, Hugo Becker, Brendan Dooling, Elise Eberle, Lucy Davenport, Mackenzie Davis, Nicole Patrick, Brock Harris, Jenny Anne Hochberg, Naeem Uzimann)

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Fruitvale Station

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The film takes an even-handed view of its main protagonist, illustrating faults on both sides of the divide.

Richard Mowe · 4 out of 5
The true story of Oscar Grant, who set out one day to try and bcome a better person and ended up in a shocking encounter at Fruitvale station.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Ryan Coogler; Writer: Ryan Coogler; Stars: Michael B Jordan, Melonie Diaz, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Durand, Chad Michael Murray, Ahna O'Reilly, Ariana Neal, Keenan Coogler, Trestin George, Joey Oglesby, Michael James, Marjorie Crump-Shears, Destiny Ekwueme, Bianca Rodriguez III, Julian Keyes)

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Lily

Nearing the end of her treatment for breast cancer, Lily focuses on life with newfound clarity, reevaluating her relationship with an older man and her feelings about her long-absent father.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Matt Creed; Writer: Matt Creed, Amy Grantham; Stars: Amy Grantham)

Short Term 12

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The film’s simplicity is its strength.

Richard Mowe · 3 out of 5
Story of a counsellor at a foster care centre.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Destin Cretton; Writer: Destin Cretton; Stars: Brie Larson, John Gallagher Jr., Kaitlyn Dever, Stephanie Beatriz, Rami Malek, Alex Calloway, Kevin Hernandez, Lydia Du Veaux, Keith Stanfield, Frantz Turner, Diana Maria Riva, Harold Cannon, Silvia Curiel, Melora Walters, Bran'dee Allen)

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Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors

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Few portrayals of autism spectrum disorders in film have ever had the authenticity of this.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A boy with Asperger's syndrome goes riding on the New York subway for days as his distraught mother searches for him.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Sam Fleischner; Writer: Micah Bloomberg, Rose Lichter-Marck)

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Sweetwater

In the late 1800s, a fanatical religious leader, a renegade Sheriff, and a former prostitute collide in a blood triangle on the rugged plains of the New Mexico Territory.

(Year: 2013; Director: Logan Miller, Noah Miller; Writer: Andrew McKenzie; Stars: Ed Harris, January Jones, Jason Isaacs, Eduardo Noriega, Steven Rude, Amy Madigan)

We Are What We Are

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Ambyr Childers conveys the pressure the world-weary Iris is under brilliantly, while Julia Garner shines as the otherworldly Rose.

David Graham · 4 out of 5
A cannibal family faces an uncertain future following a bereavement.

(Country: US; Year: 2013; Director: Jim Mickle; Writer: Nick Damici, Jim Mickle; Stars: Bill Sage, Ambyr Childers, Julia Garner, Michael Parks, Wyatt Russell, Kelly McGillis)

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