There are a number of solid choices this week in streaming video, beginning with an Oscar-nominated animation from Disney and a BAFTA and Golden Globe-winning Italian nominee for the Best Foreign Language Oscar. Then we’ve got another highly acclaimed French film, a widely praised rock doc, and a couple of other selections to round out the list. Read on for details:
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In Disney’s hit animated musical, Elsa (Idina Menzel) is cursed with the power to turn everything she touches to ice. She’s forced into exile after plunging the kingdom into a deep freeze; it’s up to her sister Anna (Kristen Bell) and some newfound friends to rescue her.
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This Palme d’Or-winning coming-of-age drama is the story of a teenager who falls in love with an older art student.
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This Oscar-nominated dramedy about an aging journalist who reflects on his career spent hobnobbing Rome’s glitterati has been favorably compared to Fellini’s La Dolce Vita.
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Geoffrey Rush and Emily Watson star in a drama about a girl who learns to read while living with foster parents in a German town on the cusp of World War II.
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This critically-acclaimed rockumentary tells the story of the legendary Alabama recording studio where Aretha Franklin, the Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd and many others cut some of their greatest records.
