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Joanna Coates – Hide and Seek (2014)
In an isolated English cottage, four young people from London move in together, seeking to challenge social conventions and their own tolerances by engaging in scheduled partner-swapping. As their...
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Woody Allen – Shadows and Fog (1991)
Quote: As Wolcott Gibbs once said to Shakespeare: Kafka, here’s your hat. That’s just one of the deliciously eccentric messages being sent out by Woody Allen in his rich, not easily categorized new...
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Stefano Sollima – Suburra (2015)
About A gangster known as “Samurai” wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long. In...
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Naomi Kawase – Futatsume no mado AKA Still the Water (2014)
On the subtropical Japanese island of Amami, traditions about nature remain eternal. During the full-moon night of traditional dances in August, 16-year-old Kaito discovers a dead body floating in the...
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Claudia Lorenz – Unter der Haut AKA What’s Between Us (2015)
Quote: After eighteen years of marriage, Alice finds herself confronted with the fact that her husband Frank feels more and more attracted to men. Not only Frank, but also she and their three children...
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Deniz Gamze Ergüven – Mustang (2015)
Quote: Early summer. In a village in northern Turkey, Lale and her four sisters are walking home from school, playing innocently with some boys. The immorality of their play sets off a scandal that...
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Cary Joji Fukunaga – Beasts of No Nation (2015)
Quote: Fukunaga, who’s emerged as the MVP of True Detective’s first season after departing before its disastrous second, sketches out this precarious stability with affectionate efficiency, then rips...
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Kun-jae Jang – Han yeo-reum-ui pan-ta-ji-a AKA A Midsummer’s Fantasia (2014)
Split into two parts, shot in black and white, the opening chapter First Love, Yoshiko follows a Korean director (Lim Hyung-kook) who is scouting for locations for his next film in the Japanese rural...
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Nicholas Ray – Born to Be Bad [+Extra] (1950)
Synopsis: One of the most oft-revived of the pre-Technicolor Nicholas Ray efforts, Born to Be Bad offers us the spectacle of Joan Fontaine portraying a character described as “a cross between Lucrezia...
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François Truffaut – Domicile conjugal AKA Bed and Board (1970)
Quote: So here he is for the last time, Antoine Doinel, who has grown up like the rest of us and has finally, apparently, found conjugal peace. He has changed a lot along the way. Francois Truffaut...
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Syllas Tzoumerkas – I Ekrixi AKA A Blast (2014)
Synopsis In a striking and courageous lead performance, Angeliki Papoulia plays Maria – a woman who started her adult life with the best of intentions but, ten years later, feels her world falling out...
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Cheyenne Carron – Ne nous soumets pas à la tentation AKA Lead Us Not Into...
Quote: The best movie that I’ve seen so far at Cinequest is the French thriller Lead Us Not Into Temptation. A middle-aged married man does a good deed for a beautiful young woman and finds himself...
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François Truffaut – Tirez sur le pianiste AKA Shoot the Pianist (1960)
Quote: A hapless pianist at a jazz club gets caught up with the mob, when his older brother who owes money to them comes to him for help. Eventually, the piano player and his girlfriend become pawns...
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Mariano Llinás – Historias extraordinarias AKA Extraordinary Stories (2008)
Quote: Historias extraordinarias tells the adventures of three men known only as H (Agustin Mendilaharzu, doubling as cinematographer), X (director Mariano Llinás) and Z (Walter Jakob). These...
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Ermanno Olmi – Torneranno i prati AKA Greenery Will Bloom Again (2014)
Quote: The winter of 1917, the North-East front, the final clashes of the Great War. An Italian stronghold situated at 1800 metres above sea level, on the Asiago plateau, described in the novels of...
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Lamberto Sanfelice – Cloro AKA Chlorine (2015)
Synopsis Jenny is seventeen and dreams of becoming a champion synchronised swimmer, but her carefree adolescent life in Ostia, a coastal province of Rome, is shaken by the sudden death of her mother....
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Rafaël Ouellet – Gurov and Anna (2014)
Quote: Ben is a failed writer-turned-academic whose ‘happily ever after’ has begun to feel more like ‘the end’. He immerses himself in Chekhov’s story ‘The Lady with the Dog’, a permanent fixture on...
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Miklós Jancsó – Oldás és kötés AKA Cantata (1963)
Quote: Jancsó’s second feature film, received the Hungarian Critics’ Prize. In this work, influenced by Michelangelo Antonioni, Jancsó created the unique visual style by which he became known – the...
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Marco Bellocchio – Sangue del mio sangue AKA Blood of My Blood (2015)
Two haunting Italian tales from different centuries in the convent prison of Bobbio, caught somewhere between past and present: a young 17th century priest falls under the spell of a bewitching nun...
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Sohrab Shahid Saless – Hans – Ein Junge in Deutschland (1985)
Plot in German “Der in Westdeutschland lebende, iranische Filmemacher Saless (“Utopia”) schildert in seinem Drama eine deutsche Jugend am Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs Frankfurt 1944: In der...
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