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Critic's Pick! "Very enjoyable!"-Manohla Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES

"Superb! In this marvelous documentary, a brilliant woman ... finally gets her due." -Chuck Wilson, THE VILLAGE VOICE

Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr (ZIEGFELD GIRL, SAMSON AND DELILAH) was known as the world's most beautiful woman-Snow White and Cat Woman were both based on her iconic look. However, her incredible beauty stood in the way of her being given the credit she deserved as an ingenious inventor whose pioneering work eventually helped revolutionize modern communication. Mislabeled as "just another pretty face," Hedy's true legacy is that of a brilliant technological trailblazer. An Austrian Jewish emigre, she wanted to help defeat the Nazis. She invented a covert "frequency hopping" communications system to make Allied torpedoes unstoppable, and then patriotically gave her 1942 patent to the Navy, who ignored it and told her to sell kisses for war bonds instead. Throughout her life few knew of Hedy's secret history, but in 2016 director Alexandra Dean and producer Adam Haggiag unearthed four never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy speaking about her incredible life. Combining this newly discovered interview with intimate reflections from her children, closest friends, family and admirers, including Mel Brooks and Robert Osborne, BOMBSHELL finally sets the record straight, giving Hedy Lamarr the chance to tell her own amazing story. (USA, 2017)

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"The story has an idiosyncratic charm that pays off in an unexpectedly touching ending." -David Rooney, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"Like a chocolate trifle with an arsenic core, this quirky portrait [gestures] toward broad comic appeal while offering peeks at a profound darkness just beneath."-Andrew Barker, VARIETY

Setsuko (Shinobu Terajima) is a lonely, chain-smoking, past-her-prime office worker in Tokyo. When her fun-loving twenty-year-old niece Mika (Shioli Katsuna) browbeats her into enrolling in an unorthodox English class she meets a handsome young American instructor, John (Josh Hartnett, PEARL HARBOR), who tries to break through Japanese formality by hugging his students; he requires her to wear a curly blonde wig and take on an American alter ego named "Lucy." Setsuko finds her new identity liberating, and quickly develops romantic feelings for John-to the degree that when he suddenly disappears without explanation she wants to track him down. Setsuko enlists the help of her grouchy sister Ayako (Kaho Minami), and the pair fly halfway across the world to Southern California in pursuit. In a brave new world of tattoo parlors and seedy motels, family ties and past lives are tested as Setsuko struggles to preserve the dream and promise of "Lucy." With Koji Yakusho. Recalling the culture clash charm of KU MIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER, OH LUCY! is funny but dark, with a gem of a performance by Terajima. Directed and co­written by Atsuko Hirayanagi in her directorial debut. (Japan/USA, 2017)

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