MERCENARY ★★★☆ 

Nicely shot French film about a pacific islander rugby player trying to make a go of it in a minor league team in France. Had a really nice, slow pace (in a good way), and reasonable story. It kind of echoed Mahana in the sense of an iron-fisted patriarch dominating the lives of his offspring and how they managed to cope and keep going in spite of it.

GIRLFRIENDS ★★★

I read that this 1970s film inspired the HBO show ‘Girls’, and you can really tell when watching it. I almost walked out about halfway through, but stuck it through and glad that I did. The film quality was t-e-r-r-i-b-l-e. Dirty and blurry, but I guess that’s what you get with low budget 40 year+ old indie films.