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Retrograde (2023)

Retrograde poster
Directed by
Adrian Murray
Genre
drama
Country
Canada
Runtime
1h 14m
Rated
NR
Rating
2.5 of 10 from 4 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young woman fights a traffic ticket despite everyone telling her to pay it. The film follows her stubborn persistence as she tries to prove a point.

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What happens

Retrograde is a Canadian drama film, directed by Adrian Murray and released in 2022. The film stars Molly Reisman as a young woman persistently fighting a traffic ticket she incurred while helping her new roommate Gabrielle (Sofia Banzhaf) move in, despite the advice of everybody around her to just pay the fine and move on. The cast also includes Bessie Cheng, Erik Anderson, Anne Archer, Peter Frangella, Meredith Heinrich, Meelad Moaphi, Joanne Steven and Dean Tardioli. The film premiered at the 2022 Slamdance Film Festival, where it received an honorable mention from the Breakouts feature award jury. It had its Canadian premiere at the 2023 Canadian Film Festival, where Murray won the award for Best Director. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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