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Éric Rohmer – Les nuits de la pleine lune AKA Full Moon in Paris (1984)
Quote: Louise lives with Rémi in Marne-la-Vallée. He is an architect, she is an interior decorator. Their lives would be perfect if Rémi were less of a homebody, and if Louise were not such a night...
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Todd Rohal – The Guatemalan Handshake [+Commentary] (2006)
Quote: In the confusion following a massive power outage, an awkward demolition derby driver vanishes, setting in motion a series of events affecting his pregnant girlfriend, his helplessly car-less...
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Virginie Despentes & Coralie – Baise-moi AKA Fuck Me (2000)
Quote: Two young women, marginalised by society, go on a destructive tour of sex and violence. Breaking norms and killing men – and shattering the complacency of polite cinema audiences. Baise-moi...
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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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Andrey Zvyagintsev – Nelyubov (2017)
Loveless (winner of the Jury Prize at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival) is a Russian drama film directed by Andrey Zvyagintsev – acclaimed director of Leviathan, and The Return. The story concerns two...
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Alejandro González Iñárritu – Biutiful (2010)
Quote: This is the story of Uxbal, a man living in this world, but able to see his death, which guides his every move. Quote: It’s a real testament to a filmmaker’s abilities when one of his pieces...
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Pedro Costa – O Sangue AKA Blood (1989)
Vicente, seventeen, lives with brother Nino, ten-years-old, and his ailing father in a derelict house on the outskirts of the capital. They don’t seem to remember their mother, and are very much...
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Jean Godard – Pour un soir..! (1931)
Summary In a chic nightclub, a navel officer admires his new love, the singer Stella Maria. A fellow officer warns him not to get involved with this woman and tells the tragic story of a sailor who...
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Dan Pita & Mircea Veroiu – Nunta de piatra AKA The Stone Wedding (1973)
Stone Wedding (Nunta de piatra) is made of two distinct segments directed by two different directors. The first part (M. Veroiu) depicts the miserable life of a widow in Romania at the beginning of...
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Michael Haneke – Happy End (2017)
From theguardian.com It hardly needs saying that the adjective in the title is about as accurate as the one in Haneke’s Funny Games. Happy End is a satirical nightmare of haute-bourgeois European...
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Peter Jaitz – Rimini (2009)
Quote: The young, successful employee Alex knows finally, what he wants from life – actually, what he doesn’t want: Its life. It bores him to death. Each day the same, which is subjected to the...
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Serdar Akar – Gemide AKA On Board (1998)
Quote: A sequel to Laleli’de Bir Azize, and with the collaboration of practically the same team, Gemide is the story of four sailors who sit around the ship and spend their time smoking pot. Their...
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Barbara Loden – Wanda (1970)
Quote: Winner of the Critics Prize in Venice in 1970, Barbara Loden’s Wanda (1970) was, as the New York Times meekly puts it, “a critical hit but failed to create excitement at the box-office” (New...
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Michel Hazanavicius – Le Redoutable AKA Redoubtable (2017)
Quote: Paris, 1967. Jean-Luc Godard, the maker of “A bout de souffle”, “Le Mépris” and “Pierrot le fou”, idolized by critics and intellectuals, is shifting from revolutionizing cinema to becoming a...
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Sang-soo Hong – Geu-hu AKA The Day After (2017)
Quote: The married Bongwan leaves home in the dark morning and sets off to work. The memories of the woman who left weigh down on him. That day Bongwan’s wife finds a love note, bursts into the...
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Roberto Gervitz – Jogo Subterraneo aka Underground Game (2005)
from IMDB: In São Paulo, the weird and romantic piano player Martin (Felipe Camargo) believes in serendipity and invents a game to find the woman of his dreams. He previously selects a route in the...
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Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Lili Marleen (1981)
Late Fassbinder melodrama. In Switzerland German singer ‘Willie’ falls in love with Jewish composer ‘Robert’ who offers resistance to the Nazis by helping refugees. But his family thinks that ‘Willie’...
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Ken Russell – The Devils [+Extras] (1971)
In 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of...
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Nagisa Ôshima – Ai no korîda AKA In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
Quote: Based upon a true incident in 1930s Japan, Nagisa Oshima’s controversial film effectively skirts the borderline between pornography and art — making Bernardo Bertolucci’s Last Tango in Paris of...
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Gianluigi Calderone – Appassionata (1974)
Two teenage friends, Eugenia (Ornella Muti) and Nicola (Eleonora Giorgi) conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist, Dr. Emilio...
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