Still from "35 Shots of Rum" (2008)

ARKANSAS TIMES FILM SERIES: ‘35 SHOTS OF RUM’
TUESDAY 6/18. Riverdale 10 VIP Cinema. 7 p.m. $12-$14.

The Arkansas Times Film Series, curated by Omaya Jones, has a knack for introducing you to things you’ve never heard of, but are about to fall in love with. (Exhibit A: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives.”) Join us this month for Claire Denis’ 2008 film “35 Shots of Rum,” which the Village Voice called her “warmest, most radiant work, honoring a family of two’s extreme closeness while suggesting its potential for suffocation,” in which the acclaimed director veers off course from her wheelhouse of murder and tumult in favor of quiet family drama unfolding between a father and daughter. Get tickets here.

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Stephanie Smittle is editorial director at the Arkansas Times and will arm wrestle anyone who says Arkansas is boring.