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Montreal Critics’ Week Festival Unveils Inaugural Line-up, With ‘Two Cuckolds Go Swimming’ Premiere, ‘Universal Language’ Closing Night (EXCLUSIVE)

The first Montreal Critics' Week in January includes screenings of 'Universal Language,' 'Two Cuckolds Go Swimming' and 'Eephus.'

And yet, film criticism also endeavors to define new trends, to champion new voices, and to curate works in ways that propel the art form forward – that make cinema accessible in a project distinct from the requirements of marketing,” said programmers Ariel Esteban Cayer and Mathieu Li-Goyette in a statement announcing the lineup. This selection attempts to paint a critical portrait of the world today, grappled with by films of great perspective, ambition, and integrity, no matter whether they are rendered in hushed, soft tones or bursts of DIY anger, or even provocation. Abdolreza Kahani, Canada, Iran, France) A tired mechanic builds a religious shrine out of imported wood and takes the road, in this subversive DIY film offering an offbeat window into the Iranian community of Quebec.

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