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Everybody lies in Princesas except those who tell a truth no one wants to believe. Set in a downtrodden section of modern Madrid, director Fernando Leon de Aranoa’s latest film is a tale of two prostitutes, Caye (the formidable Candela Pena of Te Doy Mis Ojos) and Zulema (Micaela Nevarez in her screen debut), who first meet as antagonists but gradually form a friendship out of necessity and a common longing to escape their environment.

Pick up any book written by Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) and you get the idea he had a lot of lousy jobs as he came up through the ranks of obscurity to worldwide literary fame. Art imitates life, and work is a major part of his fictional world, along with drinking, racetrack betting, poverty, desperation, sex and violence. His characters live on the edge, walking a fine line between keeping it together for another day or falling into total destitution. Poignant and insightful, savage and often times bizarre, Bukowski’s writing has an infectious quality about it, and he is rightfully considered one of America’s most influential and significant artists.

To see an exceedingly imaginative and creative director like Michel Gondry let loose to all his potential on a film sounds to be an ideal way to spend of couple of hours in the dark. Certainly, that’s what his newest film, The Science of Sleep, promises to be.

The enigmatic director Ray Lawrence will be returning to American screens next spring with the film Jindabyne . Sony Pictures Classics has picked up the rights to the film, which is already a box office hit in Australia. Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne star in the film, about a group of men who find a dead Aboriginal girl while on a fishing trip but continue their trip as scheduled. Byrne plays one of the fishermen, Linney plays his deservedly furious wife. Jindabyne will make its North American premiere at the Toronto Film Festival.

The largest benefit for audiences in the recent rise of the documentary has been the increasing release of alternative sources on an international crisis. This has been evident nowhere more then with the on-going Iraq War as filmmakers continually find fresh perspectives absent from the media. The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends is the latest to offer a new side to the debate as it gives voice to the returning soldiers.