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Jean-Paul Civeyrac – La Vie Selon Luc AKA Life According To Luc (1991)

Review “dvdtimes.co.uk” wrote: Few of the characteristics that can be associated with Jean Paul Civyrac can be seen in his first film, a 14 minute short feature. Inevitably, considering its short...

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Piero Messina – L’attesa AKA The Wait (2015)

Quote: In the vast rooms of an ancient villa marked by the passing of time, Anna, following an unexpected bereavement, spends her days in solitude. The rugged and beautiful Sicilian countryside...

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Daniel Duval – La dérobade AKA Memoirs of a French Whore (1979)

Quote: Marie (Miou-Miou) is a young girl from a working-class family who falls for Gerard (Daniel Duval) before she discovers he is a vicious, sadistic pimp. She is degraded, abused, and beaten...

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Zeki Demirkubuz – Kiskanmak AKA Envy (2009)

Quote: It’s the 1930s. The Republic Day Ball is in progress in Zonguldak, a coal mining town in Turkey. Among the invited guests are the newcomers to this small and boring town: Halit, an engineer;...

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Anne Émond – Les êtres chers AKA Our Loved Ones (2015)

Guy’s tragic death is a shock for the Leblanc family. For many years, the real cause of his death is kept hidden from some members of the family, including his son David. The latter in turn starts his...

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Gaspar Noé – Irréversible (2002)

Quote: Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass....

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Larry Clark – The Smell of Us (2014)

Quote: The dirty old man hanging out with all those oversexed Paris teenagers in “The Smell of Us” is none other than the voyeuristic pic’s director, Larry Clark. Usually, he’s the one behind the...

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Edward Yang – Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian AKA A Brighter Summer...

Quote: It’s only natural that Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day begins with a shot of a barely-lit light bulb. On the set of a movie, a director reprimands an actress for harping on the color of her...

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Jean-Pierre Dikongue-Pipa – Muna Moto (1975)

Quote: Ngando and Ndomé share an extremely perfect love. Yet, tradition demands a dowry for Ndomé’s hand that Ngando, an orphan, cannot afford. Forced to ask his uncle for assistance, Ngando finds...

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Isabel Coixet – Nadie Quiere La Noche AKA Nobody Wants the Night (2015)

Synopsis INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS Greenland, 1909. Josephine Peary is a mature, proud, determined and naive woman, in love with celebrated Arctic adventurer Robert Peary, a man who prefers glory and...

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Claire Denis – S’en fout la mort AKA No Fear, No Die (1990)

Quote: On desolate road near the Spanish-French border, a pensive African immigrant from Benin, Dah (Isaach De Bankolé), waits in the darkness for a poultry truck to arrive for an appointed evening...

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Ulrich Seidl – Import/Export (2007)

Quote: The case of Josef Fritzl, an outwardly respectable man from Amstetten in Austria who imprisoned and raped his daughter for 24 years in a specially built cellar dungeon, resulted this summer in...

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Jean-Paul Civeyrac – Fantômes AKA Spirits (2001)

Quote: On the surface, Jean-Paul Civeyrac’s Fantômes unfolds with a sense of haunted, supernatural disequilibrium that similarly infuses Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s atmospheric, tonal cinema. In the film’s...

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René Coiffard & Louis Delluc – Le chemin d’Ernoa (1921)

French informations : Etchégor, un riche paysan basque est épris de la belle américaine Majesty Parnell. L’époux de celle-ci, sur le point d’être arrêté pour vol, cherche à se forger un alibi....

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Zeki Demirkubuz – Bulanti AKA Nausea (2015)

Quote: Ahmet, a prominent intellectual, lost his wife and daughter in a traffic accident which happened while he was spending the night with his lover. As a person who cares about nothing and bows to...

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Lucrecia Martel – La mujer sin cabeza AKA The Headless Woman (2008)

Quote: “I feel a little … I don’t feel good.” So says Veronica, the middle-aged upper-middle-class Argentinean woman who suffers a nasty bump on the noggin early on in Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless...

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László Nemes – Saul fia AKA Son of Saul (2015)

Quote: Two days in the life of Saul Auslander, Hungarian prisoner working as a member of the Sonderkommando at one of the Auschwitz Crematoriums who, to bury the corpse of a boy he takes for his son,...

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Carlos Saura – Cría cuervos AKA Raise Ravens (1976)

Quote: An inquisitive, cherubic girl named Ana (Ana Torrent) overhears a tender exchange between her father, a military officer named Anselmo (Héctor Alterio) and his mistress, Amelia (Mirta Miller),...

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Peter Brook – Moderato cantabile AKA Seven Days… Seven Nights (1960)

Synopsis: A wealthy and bored woman is witness of a murder in affection and meets another witness. She asks him about the history of the victim and falls in love with him. — IMDb. Review: One of those...

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Gustav Deutsch – Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013)

Quote: Seldom has the idea of a film as a series of tableaux been so literally appropriate as in the latest work from Austrian filmmaker and artist Gustav Deutsch. Shirley – Visions of Reality is a...

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