Unlike some months, the repertory movie screenings of November lack a natural theme. But our indie cinemas have still formed a united front, choosing films that ask their audiences to hang tight with a little more focus and faith than usual. Surreal and nonlinear selections like The Double Life of Véronique, The Color of Pomegranates, and Memoria—your patient film lover’s favorite films—serve up complex narratives and slow, artful styles. All of it is worth your time, and the Big Dark is upon us anyway… Let’s turn inward, shall we?

For fans of John Sayles’ The Secret of Roan Inish (1994), Isao Takahata’s The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013), selkies.

Wolfwalkers’ premise is lovely and magical; the daughter of a wolf hunter in 17th-century Ireland meets a mysterious tribe of shapeshifti

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