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IFFBoston Fall Focus brings trolls, shoplifters, and more to the Brattle

The Favourite

Once again, the good folks at IFFBoston are taking over the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge for their yearly Fall Focus, a weekend filled with some of the best films of the year, well before they hit your local arthouse. This year's line-up is exceptionally strong, and that's saying something, given that films like Moonlight and Lady Bird have screened at prior iterations of the mini-festival.

We've got a Haruki Murakami adaptation that may actually be the single best translation of the master author's work to the screen, we've got a black-and-white drama that uses the metaphorical divide between the East and the West to describe the collapse of a relationship in postwar Poland, and we've got a fairy-tale penned by the author of Let the Right One In about a Border Patrol officer discovering that she may very well be more than human. And those are only three of the absolutely incredible choices you'll find on screen at the Brattle from October 19 through the 21.

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Non-Fiction

Sunday, October 21 @ 2:30 p.m.

You might have better luck than we did with French maestro Olivier Assayas’ latest picture, a talky meta-comedy that never really quite came together for us at TIFF. Why? Well, it’s essentially the director clearing his throat after making two of the best films of his career — Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper — and it’s an odd advertisement for the wonders that having an actress like Kristen Stewart on board can do for the creative mind. That is to say that she’s not here, with the focus instead being on a group of French literati and their fears about the future and their plentiful affairs. Hey, you might really like it! And if you close your eyes and just listen to the dialogue instead of watching the movie, you might actually start to pick up on choice French phrases, so there’s another bonus right there.

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