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Jean Epstein – L’auberge rouge AKA The Red Inn (1923)
Based on the story by Honoré de Balzac. Caught in a storm, two young doctors book into an inn for the night and find themselves sharing a room with a Dutch diamond merchant. During the night Prosper...
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Michael Haneke – Happy End (2017)
A drama about a family set in Calais with the European refugee crisis as the backdrop. Sight & Sound wrote: Film of the week: Happy End is a welcome departure for Michael HanekeThere’s much in the...
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Anna Melikyan – Rusalka AKA The Mermaid (2007)
PLOT:The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true.She must reconcile this belief with reality when, as a young woman, she journeys...
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Sharunas Bartas – Indigène d’Eurasie (2010)
Gena is under no illusions about his situation. In the prologue of the film, he briefly sketches out his life in a monotone voiceover: growing up without parents, receiving an “education” from his...
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Naoto Kumazawa – Oto-na-ri (2009)
Photographer Satoshi has become famous while working among the rhich and famous. His photos are worh a million. But the young man dreams of taking photos of Canadian landscapes instead of working in...
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John Irvin – The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha (2005)
“Laughing Water – Mine Ha-Ha” is based on “Mine-Haha or Physical Education of Young Girls” by German author Frank Wedekind (Spring Awakening, Lulu, Pandora’s Vase). Thuringia, Germany, in the early...
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Alejandro Amenábar – Mar adentro AKA The Sea Inside (2004)
Life story of Spaniard Ramón Sampedro, who fought a 30-year campaign to win the right to end his life with dignity. Film explores Ramón’s relationships with two women: Julia, a lawyer who supports his...
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Marco Ferreri – L’udienza AKA The Audience (1971)
This tiresome comedy features pop singer Enzo Jannacci as Amedeo, a country rube who comes to Vatican City seeking a personal audience with the Pope. Detailing Amedeo’s battle with officious Vatican...
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David Mackenzie – Young Adam (2003)
The adaptation of a novel by Alexander Trocchi, a figure of the Beat generation, David Mac Kenzie’s Young Adam slowly sails on turbid water, carrying in its wake some characters stuck in lives with...
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Virgil Vernier – Sophia Antipolis (2018)
Sophia Antipolis: a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story...
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Pedro Costa – No Quarto da Vanda AKA In Vanda’s Room (2000)
Quote:For the extraordinarily beautiful second film in his Fontainhas trilogy, Pedro Costa jettisoned his earlier films’ larger crews to burrow even deeper into the Lisbon ghetto and the lives of its...
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Fred Zinnemann – The Nun’s Story (1959)
From IMDB:In 1930, in Belgium, Gabrielle van der Mal is the stubborn daughter of the prominent surgeon Dr. Pascin Van Der Mal that decides to leave her the upper-class family to enter to a convent,...
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Sólveig Anspach – Louise Michel, la rebelle AKA Louise Michel (2009)
A fiercely active Communard, Louise Michel is condemned for taking arms against Bismarck. Along with thousands of other revolutionaries, she is deported to New Caledonia, whilst, back in Paris, a...
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Jacques Rivette – La religieuse AKA The Nun (1966)
Quote:It was Rivette’s second feature, after the puzzling ‘Paris Nous Appartient,’ and eschewed the nouvelle vague in favour of something altogether more structured, indeed rigorously so. “This film...
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Andrew Bujalski – Support the Girls (2018)
Quote:In Bujalski’s new film (notable director of Computer Chess, Funny Ha Ha, and Mutual Appreciation), the general manager at a highway-side ”sports bar with curves” has her incurable optimism and...
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Cristian Nemescu – California Dreamin’ (Nesfarsit) (2007)
Plot Synopsis from allmovie.comRomanian director Cristian Nemescu’s comedy California Dreamin’ unfolds against the backdrop of the Kosovo War, circa 1999. A NATO train rolls through a Romanian hamlet,...
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Sam Garbarski – Quartier lointain aka A Distant Neighborhood (2010)
A grown man wakes up to discover he is a teenager again. 1.25GB | 1:34:25 | 704×384 | avi...
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Bakur Bakuradze – Shultes (2008)
Quote:A once-promising athlete whose career was cut short due to a tragic injury turns to a life of crime, and receives an unusual gift that leads him to make a series of rash decisions. Lesha Shultes...
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Francis Leclerc – Un Été Sans Point Ni Coup Sûr AKA A No-Hit No-Run Summer...
Variety.com wrote:Set in ’69, “A No-Hit, No-Run Summer” gets to first base, at least, with its modest tale of B-team squirts who play in old hockey jerseys but eventually hold their own against the...
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Allan Dwan – Driftwood (1947)
Six-year-old Jenny rescues a collie dog, the only survivor of a plane wreck. A tag on the dog’s neck states that it is en route to a medical laboratory where its blood will be used for spotted fever...
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