A BOY NAMED AGNES AND OTHER NOTABLES FROM NEW FILMS BY NEW DIRECTORS

Visually innovative, thematically bold cinema created by little-known artists from all around the globe--that’s what the heavyweight team of The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art are striving to give New Yorkers during the 34th edition of the New Directors/New Films festival, which runs through April 3. From Germany comes “Agnes and His Brothers,” a tough contender in the dysfunctional-family sweepstakes (those dancing feet getting the once-over in the photo above belong to Agnes, a failed stud turned successful siren who is by no means the oddest member of the oddball clan). For more details on this and other films in the series, click here.