Cube Critic: Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival
April 10, 2015
Movie Maven and Cube Critic Stephanie Curtis joins Jill Riley and Sean McPherson (in for Steve Seel) to talk about some of the nearly 200 films that are part of the Minneapolis St Paul International Film Festival (MSPIFF), which began this week and lasts for a couple weeks, centered on St. Anthony Main in Minneapolis.
"There is no way you're going to make it to all of them," Stephanie says. "There's just not enough time. So you just have to look at the schedule and pick something."
Here are a couple of Stephanie's recommendations:
Gods (Poland) — Set in the 1980s, this film is about a group of rebellious young doctors who want to do the first heart transplant in Poland.
Marshland (Spain) — A series of brutal murders of adolescent girls in a remote and forgotten town bring together two disparate characters, both detectives in the homicide division, to investigate the cases. "It's a great psychological thriller," Stephanie says.
The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival opened with a funny film, The 100-Year-Old Man who Climbed out a Window and Disappeared, and closes with the Bill Pohlad film, Love and Mercy, the Brian Wilson biopic. In all, the festival includes screenings of close to 200 films from every genre and from all over the world.
MPR's Movie Maven, Stephanie Curtis, joins The Current's Morning Show to talk about films every Friday at 8:30 a.m.