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Krzysztof Kieslowski – La double vie de Véronique AKA The Double Life of...
Synopsis: Two parallel stories about two identical women; one living in Poland, the other in France. They don’t know each other, but their lives are nevertheless profoundly connected. Review: It is...
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Anna Karina – Vivre ensemble (1973)
Quote:A history teacher mets a hippy girl in Paris, he drops his job and starts a relation with her. So they start live together (vivre ensemble). A some point they do a trip to NY. Then they come...
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Val Guest – The Camp on Blood Island (1958)
Plot Synopsis:An intensely stoic Andre Morell leads a group of POWs, interned under the sadistic rule of Commander Yamamitsu, who has vowed to massacre them all and raze the camp to the ground should...
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Akio Jissôji – Utamaro: Yume to shiriseba AKA Utamaro’s world (1977)
ClarkeFountain-AllMovieGuide wrote:Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-ranging...
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Stergios Paschos – Afterlov (2016)
It’s summertime in Athens and Nikos, a 30-year-old broke musician, is taking care of a luxurious villa in the suburbs that belongs to a friend of his. Between poolside cocktails and fooling around...
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Denis Côté – Curling (2010)
The fascinating fifth feature by Québécois auteur Denis Côté, Curling is a portrait of Jean-François (Emmanuel Bilodeau), a single father who works nights at a deserted bowling alley and days in a...
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José Luis Sáenz de Heredia & Luis Buñuel –¿Quién me quiere a mí? AKA Who...
Quote:The singer Marta Velez decides to retire to make-up her marriage. Her husband, a vividor, tries to cheat her a large sum of money. Unable to get it, he thinks of a plan to kidnap his daughter...
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Eloy Enciso – Arraianos (2012)
Synopsis:A village on the border between Galicia and Portugal, hidden deep in the woods, a world out of time. Documentary moments of everyday life stand alongside dramatized scenes acted by the...
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Claude Lelouch – La Bonne Année AKA Happy New Year (1973)
Synopsis:At the end of 1972, con artist and thief Simon receives a remission to celebrate the New Year outside La Santé Prison. While heading to his apartment in Paris to meet his mistress Françoise,...
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Paulo César Saraceni – A Casa Assassinada AKA The Murdered House (1971)
Newly wed arrives at her husband’s family house, in the country. The heavy atmosphere of the house frightens her, and she takes refuge in her homosexual son-in-law’s room, who is kept locked and...
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Paul Almond – Act of the Heart (1970)
Martha Hayes, a woman fanatically devoted to Jesus Christ, ekes out a meager existence in Montreal, Canada. As a singer in an Anglican Church choir, Martha meets and is fascinated by Father Michael...
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Maurice Pialat – Nous ne vieillirons pas ensemble AKA We Won’t Grow Old...
Synopsis:Rare is the film in movie-history that can announce the entire movement of it’s ‘plot’ with its title alone. But Pialat’s second feature, Nous Ne Viellirons Pas Ensemble does exactly that,...
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Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire – Punk (2012) (DVD)
Variety review :“Is Gallic helmer Jean-Stephane Sauvaire hooked on violence? Almost everyone appearing in his documentary “Carlitos Medellin” was dead by the time it was edited, while his fictional...
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Isao Yukisada – Tojiru hi AKA Enclosed Pain (2000) (DVD)
Yuri and Takumi are brother and sister who faced unusually harsh treatment by their father. An act of brutality keeps them extremely close together until an older couple occupy the house where their...
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Andrei Tarkovsky – Offret (1986)
The Sacrifice, director Andrei Tarkovsky’s final film, begins in Bergmanesque fashion on a small, remote island, where friends and family gather for drama critic Alexander’s (Erland Josephson)...
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Edouard Molinaro – L’homme presse AKA The Hurried Man [+Extras] (1977)
Synopsis:“A forty-something antiques dealer, Pierre Noix is a busy man, in just about every aspect of his life. Having bought a large house in Provence built on the remains of a Roman structure, he...
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Claude Pinoteau – Le silencieux AKA Escape to Nowhere (1973)
Shortly after a delegation of Russian nuclear physicists arrives in London, one of their number, a man named Haliakov, is abducted by the British security services. Haliakov is in truth Clément...
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Dennis Cooper & Zac Farley – Permanent Green Light (2018)
Roman wants to explode. Unlike other teenagers, he doesn’t seem interested in sports or drugs, girls or boys. He’s neither nihilist, religious, depressive or suicidal. His goal is to vanish, dying is...
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Atif Yilmaz – Dul bir kadin AKA A Divorced Woman (1985)
Quote:Among those who made interesting women’s films in the 1980s, and in the centre of the controversy about a feminist cinema, was Atıf Yılmaz. “A Divorced Woman” is one of those films about a woman...
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Eduardo de Gregorio – Sérail AKA Surreal Estate (1976)
Synopsis:An English novelist is lured, with disconcerting and disorienting results, into purchasing a crumbling mansion by what he imagines are the deliberately ‘literary’ ploys of its housekeeper...
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