English Title: The Tree and the Cat Directed by: Evgeniy Sivokon Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A solitary tree is happy with its life and offers to teach a cat how to be the same. Cartoon Cat: The cat is thrown out of a wagon […]
English Title: Shoot the Piano Player Directed by: François Truffaut Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Piano player Charlie Kohler (Charles Aznavour) is hiding from his past when his criminal brother shows up asking for help. Purr Blur: In one scene two criminals, Ernest (Daniel Boulanger) […]
Directed by: Madhu C. Narayanan Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Four brothers with varying relationships live, fight and love in the small island fishing village of Kumbalangi, India. Kitty Cameo: At the beginning of the film, the youngest brother Franky (Mathew Thomas) returns home to […]
Directed by: Sebastián Lelio Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Gloria (Paulina García) is a divorced mother in Santiago, Chile, who decides she doesn’t want to be alone and sets out to find romance. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): A running joke in the film is the […]
English Title: Fireworks Directed by: Takeshi Kitano Synopsis: Police detective Yoshitaka Nishi (Takeshi Kitano) leaves the force to care for his terminally ill wife (Kayoko Kishimoto) after a series of life-shattering events. Kitty Cameos: Nishi and his wife visit a temple late in the film. One shot shows several temple cats sitting together. Later a […]
English Title: Burnt by the Sun Directed by: Nikita Mikhalkov Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Comdiv Sergei Petrovich Kotov (Nikita Mikhalkov) is a hero of the Red Army who is living in an artist’s community with his family during Stalin’s Great Purge. Kitty Cameo: Near […]
Directed by: Jacques Deray This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: François Capella (Jean-Paul Belmondo) and Roch Siffredi (Alain Delon) are two small time hoods in 1930’s Marseille who decide to team up to take down the big gangsters. Cat […]
Directed by: Tomm Moore, Nora Twomey Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A young boy named Brendan (voiced by Evan McGuire) is intrigued by the master illuminator Aidan (voiced by Mick Lally) who comes to visit the Irish Abbey where Brendan is apprenticed and fights to […]
English Title: Parasite Directed by: Bong Joon Ho Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: The Kim family are poor and live in squalor until they figure out a way to wheedle work out of the rich Park family. Purr Blurs: Early in the film the Kims […]
English Title: Cats in the Rain Directed by: Aleksei Dyomin (aka Alexey Demin) Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A woman goes out fishing and finds a clowder of cats waiting in the rain for her catch. Cartoon Cats: One of the cats is living in […]