RECOMMENDED A complicated web of relationships are at the center of Argentina-born Federico Hidalgo’s Montréal-set “Imitation,” in which a Mexican woman (Vanesa Bauche, “Amores Perros”) seeks out her missing husband with the help of a grocery clerk she meets one day. The searches they share across Montreal have a diverting cross-cultural vitality as they try to untangle their respective emotional and romantic tribulations. With Jesse Aaron Dwyre, Conrad Pla. 87m. (Ray Pride) FACETS
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