This year? Got nothing.
Got nothing for this year? Spend a few minutes with the lists and pick something. I’ll bet you can find something you’ll like.:)
Take a chance.
If nothing else grabs your attention, try After Yang and Montana Story. Or a suggestion from some other freeper. Both of my suggestions are deliberately slow, thoughtful films, so they’re not for adrenaline junkies or the flying spandex crowd. They are classic character driven indie dramas. I like that kind of thing. YMMV. But I’m happy to defend both as culturally conservative. And both are beautifully shot and acted, with no nudity or sex scenes and no violence, unless we count the chicken in Montana Story, which is killed and dressed for dinner. I’m surprised PETA isn’t picketing that film.
Both are streaming on Showtime.
Fun fact about Montana Story. A young Canadian actor, Asivak Koostachin, was chosen to play Joey, an important supporting role. He does a fine job and Joey proves to be a standup guy. Montana Story was written and shot at the height of the covid shutdowns, which is one of the reasons it is set on a ranch in Montana. That made social distancing easier. All the pre-production was done remotely. None of the actors and the two co-directors had met each other in person before the cast assembled to start shooting. (Chemistry reads? Who needs chemistry reads? In this case, the two leads stepped into a troubled sibling relationship beautifully. The acting is brilliant.) When they reached out to ask Asivak to audition, it turned out that he was on a caribou hunt somewhere in northern Canada. The directors were grinning ear to ear when they discussed this in an interview; apparently it was quite a feat for Asivak to shoot his audition on a smartphone and find a way to get it submitted from a hunting camp in the Great White North.
Maybe there’s hope for Canada.