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arts & entertainment Opening This week: For Films Opening Dec. 2 Independent and foreign films A nswers to nothing (R for violence, profanity, nudity and graphic sexu- ality) Lost souls saga, set in L.A., about a miserably-married woman (Elizabeth Mitchell) too desperate to have a child to confront her philandering husband (Dane Cook) about his infidelity. With Barbara Hershey, Julie Benz and Kali Hawk. The big fix (Unrated) British Petroleum expose uncovering the corruption at the root of the ecological disaster in the Gulf of Mexico triggered by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig. Caitlin Plays Herself (Unrated) Offbeat finale in Joe Swanberg’s meandering Mumblecore trilogy (along with Silver Bullets and Art History) revolves around a Chicago performance artist (Caitlin Stainken) whose boyfriend can’t get over her appearing naked onstage during a play about the BP oil spill. Cast includes Frank m ovIe r evIeWS by Kam Williams V. Ross, Spencer Parsons and Megan Mercier. Coriolanus (R for graphic violence) Ralph Fiennes stars in the title role of this modernistic reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s classic play about a banished Roman general who enters an unholy alliance with a sworn enemy (Gerard Butler). With Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain and Brian Cox. grandma, a Thousand Times (Unrated) See movIeS on page 11 Kinyarwanda revisits the genocide in Rwanda november 30, 2011 The Portland Skanner page 7
