Quickies for February 2015

Boxhagener Platz (2010) ✭✭✭✭ Slice of East German life circa-1968. Grim yet very funny. Gudrun Ritter is a scream.Nights of Alice (2010) ✭✭½French TV time waster. Good to see the great Machu Meril again (She was Godard's Une femme Marie in 1964), but the film has too many subplots and a draggy pace. Plus it's dumb.Take This Waltz (2011) ✭✭✭½ Michelle Williams is great here as a runaway wife, but