2018 – Jumbo Cactuar Film Index

#140: Shoplifters

18th Mar 2020 Posted in FilmsLeave a comment

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After one of their shoplifting sessions, Osamu and his son come across a little girl in the freezing cold. At first reluctant to shelter the girl, Osamu’s wife agrees to take care of her after learning of the hardships she faces. Although the family is poor, barely making enough money to survive through petty crime, they seem to live happily together until an unforeseen incident reveals hidden secrets, testing the bonds that unite them.

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#210: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

22nd Feb 202022nd Feb 2020 Posted in FilmsLeave a comment

iizzdoqbeybv6id8su7iml0ocbd #210 – Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018, Rodney Rothman, Peter Ramsey, & Bob Persichetti

Miles Morales is juggling his life between being a high school student and being a spider-man. When Wilson “Kingpin” Fisk uses a super collider, others from across the Spider-Verse are transported to this dimension.

#302: Leave No Trace

5th Feb 20205th Feb 2020 Posted in FilmsLeave a comment

awgdhlqdparawyit4hzu1zfdsho #302 – Leave No Trace, 2018, Debra Granik

A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an increasingly erratic journey in search of a place to call their own.

#495: Burning

15th Jan 2020 Posted in FilmsLeave a comment

eck7mcopj2uplq9z9pgcu6sdmt2 #495 – Burning, (버닝), 2018, Lee Chang-dong

Deliveryman Jongsu is out on a job when he runs into Haemi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he’d mind looking after her cat while she’s away on a trip to Africa. On her return she introduces to Jongsu an enigmatic young man named Ben, who she met during her trip. And one day Ben tells Jongsu about his most unusual hobby…

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#692: Capernaum

4th Jan 20204th Jan 2020 Posted in FilmsLeave a comment

dqwflmt9au6xe6ynpmezjolopxx #692 – Capernaum, (کفرناحوم), 2018, Nadine Labaki

Zain, a 12-year-old boy scrambling to survive on the streets of Beirut, sues his parents for having brought him into such an unjust world, where being a refugee with no documents means that your rights can easily be denied.

#719: Eight Grade

3rd Jan 20203rd Jan 2020 Posted in FilmsLeave a comment

xta9clhghfq7084uvopq2bbxkqd #719 – Eight Grade, 2018, Bo Burnham

Thirteen-year-old Kayla endures the tidal wave of contemporary suburban adolescence as she makes her way through the last week of middle school — the end of her thus far disastrous eighth grade year — before she begins high school.

#771: The Favourite

2nd Jan 2020 Posted in FilmsLeave a comment

lhenisfhk1wgbtbwwfw19vcuysz #771 – The Favourite, 2018, Yorgos Lanthimos

England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah’s cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen’s favourite.

#842: An Elephant Sitting Still

1st Jan 20201st Jan 2020 Posted in FilmsLeave a comment

bjfkdnsy9z9ohwdyzycaqyzxbns #842 – An Elephant Standing Still, (大象席地而坐), 2018, Hu Bo
China

In the northern Chinese city of Manzhouli, they say there is an elephant that simply sits and ignores the world. Manzhouli becomes an obsession for the protagonists of this film, a longed-for escape from the downward spiral in which they find themselves.

#912: Happy As Lazzaro

29th Dec 201929th Dec 2019 Posted in FilmsLeave a comment

j4x1o6g0cbchhqwnsez0dntojmj #912 – Happy As Lazzaro, (Lazzaro felice), 2018, Alice Rohrwacher

Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.

#921: Dear Ex

29th Dec 201929th Dec 2019 Posted in FilmsLeave a comment

3rrup4wzdvt4lfdxiwl0qmfv9ui #921 – Dear Ex, (誰先愛上他的), 2018, Mag Hsu & Chih-yen Hsu

When Sanlian’s ex-husband passes away, she discovers he has altered his insurance policy, cutting out their son in favor of a stranger named Jay.

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