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With Catherine Frot • Alain Guiraudie • Félix Kysyl • Jacques Develay
The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death continue to fascinate Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake, NYFF51), who returns with a sharp, sinister, yet slyly funny thriller. Set in an autumnal, woodsy village in his native region of Occitanie, his latest follows the meandering exploits of Jérémie (Félix Kysyl), an out-of-work baker who has drifted back to his hometown after the death of his beloved former boss, a bakery owner. Staying long after the funeral, the seemingly benign Jérémie begins to casually insinuate himself into his mentor’s family, including his kind-hearted widow (Catherine Frot) and venomously angry son (Jean-Baptiste Durand), while making an increasingly surprising—and ultimately beneficial—friendship with an oddly cheerful local priest (Jacques Develay). In Guiraudie’s quietly carnal world, violence and eroticism explode with little anticipation, and criminal behavior can seem like a natural extension of physical desire.
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With Noah Bashore • Kyle Patrick • Jessie Carl • Jonathan Connolly • Lauren Patchett
Walter is new in town. Grace is leaving town. After sparking an untimely connection, two lonely, midwestern artists decide to spend a weekend together. As they wander the city of Grand Rapids, they dive a bit too deep with oversharing and get into some wide-ranging conversation topics: lactose intolerance, climate change, photography, food-themed superheroes, purity culture, and other normal stuff. As their separation rapidly approaches, Walter & Grace are forced to let go of what they want in order to get what they need.
With Sabina Zuniga-Varela • Kristin Condon • Michael Harris • O-Lan Jones • Vivian Sorenson
In Joshua Tree's desert, a biker woman and dancer confront past traumas after a violent night. A psychic and shaman use supernatural forces to heal their deep-rooted pain, challenging the toxicity of possessive love.
With Yamada Takayuki • Nakano Taiga • Onoe Ukon • Sayashi Riho • Sakumoto Takara • Chihara Seiji • Shiraishi Kazuya
In Kazuya Shiraishi’s action-packed epic, ten convicts are promised freedom in exchange for defending a small town in feudal Japan. Tasked with holding a fortress against encroaching government forces, they fight with the desperation of men with nothing to lose. But when the officials who recruited them renege on their promise, the warriors realize they’ve been used as pawns in a larger scheme. Betrayed and outnumbered, they must forge their own fate or die trying.
