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This crop contains the rest of my pre-Saint Louis International Film Festival screenings, including a few others. I will be seeing at least four films this year, so they'll show up next round. Two brief observations: Sally Hawkins is incredible; The Unknown Woman is absolute shit.

La Crème

Blind Mountain - dir. Li Yang - China - Kino - with Huang Lu

Happy-Go-Lucky - dir. Mike Leigh - UK - Miramax - with Sally Hawkins, Eddie Marsan, Alexis Zegerman, Samuel Roukin

Les Autres

A Complete History of My Sexual Failures - dir. Chris Watt - UK - No US Distributor - with Chris Watt

The Grocer's Son [Le fils de l'épicier] - dir. Eric Guirado - France - Film Movement - with Nicolas Cazalé, Clotilde Hesme, Daniel Duval, Stéphan Guérin-Tillié, Jeanne Goupil, Liliane Rovère, Paul Crauchet, Chad Chenouga

Timecrimes [Los cronocrímenes] - dir. Nacho Vigalondo - Spain - Magnet Releasing - with Karra Elejalde, Candela Fernández, Bárbara Geonaga, Nacho Vigalondo, Juan Inciarte

Tropic Thunder - dir. Ben Stiller - USA/Germany - DreamWorks - with Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr., Jack Black, Jay Baruchel, Brandon T. Jackson, Tom Cruise, Matthew McConaughey, Nick Nolte, Steve Coogan, Bill Hader

The Wedding Director [Il regista di matrimoni] - dir. Marco Bellocchio - Italy/France - New Yorker - with Sergio Castellitto, Donatella Finocchiaro, Sami Frey, Gianni Cavina, Maurizio Donadoni, Bruno Cariello, Simona Nobili

Wonderful Town - dir. Aditya Assarat - Thailand - Kino - with Supphasit Kansen, Anchalee Saisoontorn

The Bad

The Good Boy [Segundo asalto] - dir. Daniel Cebrián - Spain - Picture This! - with Darío Grandinetti, Álex González, Eva Marciel, Laura Aparicio, Alberto Ferreiro

The Unknown Woman [La sconosciuta] - dir. Giuseppe Tornatore - Italy/France - Outsider Pictures - with Xenia Rappoport, Michele Placido, Claudia Gerini, Margherita Buy, Pierfrancesco Favino, Piera Degli Esposti, Ángela Molina