BETTER LATE THAN NEVER: Movie Reviews of The Amazing Catfish and Gabrielle

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Warning: SPOILERS

amazing catfishI really feel as if I should apologize. A movie came and went, not too long ago now, that played only a week and that I saw and that I never got around to reviewing.

And it’s shame because it’s one of the finer films of the year.

The movie is The Amazing Catfish, a movie from Mexico written and directed by Claudia Saint-Luce. It revolves around a young woman, Claudia (no relation), who works in a supermarket handing out samples. She has no relatives in the big city and has in fact left her small town because her family really has no use for her and doesn’t much care if she’s around or not. Read the rest of this entry »