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Ivo van Hove & La Comédie-Française – Les Damnés AKA The Damned (2016)
Ivo van Hove’s first staging with the Troupe marks the entry into the repertoire of the scenario of The Damned. In two decades, the artistic director of the Toneelgroep in Amsterdam, whose field of...
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Philippe Lesage – Les démons AKA The Demons (2015)
A young boy begins to experience the adult world as he enters adolescence. A daring, exquisite study of agitated child psychology that marks Quebecois filmmaker Philippe Lesage as a name to watch....
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Werner Schroeter – Nuit de chien AKA This Night (2008)
Quote: Werner Schroeter is one of the German new wave’s prophets without honour. He was too confrontationally weird to take his place alongside Fassbinder, Wenders and Herzog in the international...
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Jean-Claude Biette – Loin de Manhattan (1982)
A journalist tries to find out the mistery of the 8 years silent period of René Dimanche, a fictional painter. The art critic and the city of Paris will create and environment of decadence, but the...
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Sohrab Shahid Saless – Grabbes letzter Sommer AKA Grabbe’s Last Summer (1980)
Quote: Talented Iranian director Sohrab Shahid Saless has succeeded in taking on an unusual project — the life and times of a German literary figure — and making it interesting. Christian Dietrich...
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Wojciech Has – Osobisty pamietnik grzesznika przez niego samego spisany AKA...
Synopsis: In the 18th century, a recently deceased young man is exhumed by a gravedigger, suddenly revives, and then launches into the story of his highly eventful life. Brought up in a puritanical...
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Alain Tanner – Jonas et Lila, à demain (1999)
Jonas et Lila: A Demain by Paul Kalina March 2000 Senses of Cinema So far at least, new millennium events appear to have produced little of lasting value, apart from early retirement packages for...
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Gaston Biraben – Cautiva aka Captive (2003)
Quote: “Cautiva” features a solid performance by 23-year-old Barbara Lombardo that goes a long way in making up for the telenovela script. Lombardo, who had small role in “The Motorcycle Diaries,” is...
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Michelangelo Antonioni – Le amiche AKA The Girlfriends (1955)
Quote: Michelangelo Antonioni’s Le Amiche opens with an aerial shot of Turin, Italy that, in the moment, could easily be mistaken as simply a cheery, picturesque backdrop for the credits sequence....
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Jean-Denis Bonan – La femme bourreau AKA A Woman Kills (1968)
Synopsis: ‘Paris, in the 1960s. A series of crimes troubles the public tranquility. On March, 22, 1968, Hélène Picard, a prostitute sentenced to death two years before for several murders, is killed...
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Hector Babenco – At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991)
PLOT SYNOPSIS In a remote branch of the Brazilian Amazon, Americans Lewis (Tom Berenger) and Wolf (Tom Waits) are stranded when their plane runs out of gas. They are kept company by an evangelist...
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Srdjan Karanovic – Virdzina aka Virgina (1991)
The story takes place in Yugoslavia at the end of the 19th century, in an isolated village near the Adriatic sea. Because of the extreme patriarchal culture there is a superstition that families...
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Lucian Pintilie – Reconstituirea aka Reconstruction (1968)
Synopsis: After two friends drunkenly injure a waiter, the police force them to recreate their crime for an “educational” film—with disastrous results. Immediately banned in communist Romania,...
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D.W. Griffith – The Painted Lady (1912)
A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems interested in her. However, unknown to her, he is a...
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Hector Babenco – Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)
Quote: Kiss Of The Spider Woman takes place in an un-named, fascist country in South America. It is, essentially, a two-actor drama featuring two men, of vastly different demeanors and ideologies, who...
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Carlos Saura – El jardín de las delicias AKA The Garden of Delights (1970)
Review Summary Jose Luis Lopez Vasquez stars as a millionaire industrialist who is involved in an auto accident. When he comes to, Vasquez has completely forgotten who he is and how much money he has....
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Artour Aristakisian – Mesto na zemle AKA A Place on Earth (2001)
Quote: “This is a very powerful film. Admittedly parts of it are hard to watch, but it is an outstanding piece. In a nutshell, it is about a hippie commune that has been set up by someone who believes...
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Pedro Almodóvar – Julieta (2016)
Quote: Julieta (Emma Suarez) is a middle-aged woman living in Madrid with her boyfriend Lorenzo. Both are going to move to Portugal when she casually runs into Bea, former best friend of her daughter...
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Michael Haneke – Variation (1983)
Haneke depicts the emotional story of an adulterous relationship between a journalist and a teacher. The film poignantly explores the difficult dynamics between people who love one another but still...
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Michael Glawogger – Das Vaterspiel AKA Kill Daddy Good Night (2009)
“An Austrian videogame designer (Helmut Köpping) who has turned his pathological hatred for his politician father into a life’s mission to create a father-killing videogame, ends-up, through a set of...
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