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Leaving January 1
Directed by Ramon Zürcher and Silvan Zürcher | 98 mins | 2021
An apartment move-out produces an exquisite ballet of curious personal dramas and fraught relationships (new and old) thanks to the whisker-sensitive filmmaking of the Zürcher brothers. Set amid nosy neighbors, it’s a fine-grained cross-generational look at charged twenty-something female friendship, with unexpected touches of kindness, cruelty, and strange grace.
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