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Paolo Sorrentino – Youth (2015)
A retired orchestra conductor is on holiday with his daughter and his film director best friend in the Alps when he receives an invitation from Queen Elizabeth II to perform for Prince Philip’s...
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Pasquale Festa Campanile – La ragazza di Trieste AKA The Girl from Trieste...
Synopsis: Dino Romani (Ben Gazzara) is an American cartoonist who sees a beautiful woman named Nicole (Ornella Muti) being saved from drowning while he draws on the beach. He offers her a blanket,...
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Benoît Jacquot – Pas de scandale AKA Keep It Quiet (1999)
Quote: In common with many of Benoit Jacquot’s films, Pas de scandale is an intensely sombre character study centred around one person experiencing a mid-life crisis. This time, his subject is a...
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Ferdinando Baldi – Una vita lunga un giorno (1973)
Quote: An unsual thriller with gialloesque themes Andrea Rispoli a desperately poor Genoese sailor, Anna, the sick wife (Ewa Aulin) needs an expensive treatment to escape death. The only way ‘exit for...
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Tal Granit & Sharon Maymon – Mita Tova (2014)
THE FAREWELL PARTY is a compassionate dark comedy about friendship and knowing when to say goodbye. A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to...
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Ismail Basbeth – Menuju rembulan AKA Another trip to the moon (2015)
A magical surrealist journey of Asa, daughter of a shaman, who confronts her own mother, fighting for her own life and freedom. In fairy tales, legends and myths that spread throughout Indonesia;...
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Saverio Costanzo – La solitudine dei numeri primi aka The Solitude of Prime...
Adapted from the novel by Paolo Giordino, The Solitude of Prime Numbers is the third feature film from the Italian director Saverio Costanzo (Private, In Memory Of Me) and is, to my eyes anyway, a...
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Pedro Almodóvar – Hable con ella AKA Talk to Her (2002)
Quote: The closing act of the New York Film Festival, and one of the season’s most rewarding films, Talk to Her strikes a variety of chords: It’s uproarious, whimsical, sad, preposterous–sometimes...
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Ki-duk Kim – Samaria AKA Samaritan Girl (2004)
Jae-Young is an amateur prostitute who sleeps with men while her best friend Yeo-Jin “manages” her, fixing dates, taking care of the money and making sure the coast is clear. When Jae-Young falls in...
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Igor Ivanov Izi – Soba so pijano aka The Piano Room (2013)
This is a fable about the destinies of the guests who stay in the room with the piano in the hotel that is up for sale. This room, that hides them from the hypocrisy of the world outside, is the only...
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Goran Radovanovic – Enklava AKA Enclave (2015)
Kosovo 2004, five years after the war. Nenad, ten years Christian boy from a Serbian enclave, determined to create a proper community burial for his late grandfather, crosses enemy lines and makes...
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Edmund Goulding – Dark Victory (1939)
Quote: Judith Traherne is at the height of young society when Dr. Frederick Steele diagnoses a brain tumor. After surgery she falls in love with Steele. The doctor tells her secretary that the tumor...
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Cheryl Dunye – The Watermelon Woman (1996)
From IMDB: Cheryl is young, Black, and lesbian, working in Philadelphia with her best friend Tamara and consumed by a film project: to make a video about her search for a Black actress from Philly who...
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Jean Rollin – Les Amours Jaunes (1958)
Synopsis: Cult director Jean Rollin’s first film was this 12-minute, black-and-white short inspired by a poem by Tristan Corbiere. Filmed on weekends in 35mm on an old Maurigraphe camera borrowed from...
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Tahmineh Milani – Nimeh-ye penhan aka The Hidden Half (2001)
Iranian Director Tamineh Milani was arrested and faced execution for making The Hidden Half, a film that had been approved by government censors. Milani has been released, but the charges have not...
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Noah Baumbach – Mistress America (2015)
Quote: Tracy, a lonely college freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-be stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal about town who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes....
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Yôjirô Takita – Okuribito AKA Departures (2008)
Synopsis Departures follows Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki), a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and who is suddenly left without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his...
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Matthew Porterfield – Take What You Can Carry (2015)
A character study as well as a meditation on communication, creativity, and physical space, Take What You Can Carry is a picture of a young woman seen through the interiors she occupies and the...
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Marguerite Duras – Des journées entières dans les arbres aka Entire Days in...
A woman whose son has been estranged from her for years travels to visit him in Paris. Despite offers of money and position, he would prefer to remain a petty thief, gigolo, and paid dancer rather...
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Julien Duvivier – Voici le temps des assassins aka Deadlier than the male (1956)
Synopsis: André Chatelin is a restaurant owner in Les Halles in Paris. One morning, a girl named Catherine asks to see him. She happens to be the daughter of his estranged wife, Gabrielle, that André...
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