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Indie Film Spotlight: Smitten! & Q&A w/ writer/director Barry Morrow

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Ahhh… romanza. One of the films I enjoyed most at Minneapolis-St. Paul Film Festival (MSPIFF) this year is this sweet, whimsical fantasy rom-com starring Darren Criss and Mãdãlina Ghenea set in the picturesque Italian Alps. Smitten! is a directorial debut from Minnesota's own Barry Morrow, whom cinephiles might recognize as the Oscar-winning writer of Rain Man …

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Day 4 Review – TCFF 2015 Gala Screening: Youth

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This is the first film from Paolo Sorrentino that I saw, as I missed his film The Great Beauty which won an Oscar foreign language winner in 2014. YOUTH is about about two longtime friends vacationing in the Swiss Alps, they're in their 80s so you could say youth is behind them. Michael Caine plays Fred, an acclaimed composer …

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