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Abbas Kiarostami – Zendegi va digar hich AKA Life, and Nothing More… (1992)
زندگی و دیگر هیچ A director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier. Acquarello wrote: On a chaotic...
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Toby Fell-Holden – Balcony (2015)
In a neighborhood rife with racial tension, a local girl falls for a recent immigrant who is the victim of prejudice and shame. “Emulsa of IMW London” wrote: Balcony, the Iris Prize Winner of the...
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Agnès Varda – L’opéra-mouffe AKA Diary of a Pregnant Woman (1958)
Synopsis A pregnant filmmaker takes us to rue Mouffetard, “la Mouffe,” in the Latin Quarter of Paris for a mix of documentary footage and imagined scenes. Vignettes or chapters unfold – on the feeling...
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Merzak Allouache – Bab El-Oued City (1994)
Young Boualem just wants a little quiet, a little space to be himself and follow his desires. He works six nights a week at a French bakery in the impoverished section of Algiers known as Bab el-Oued,...
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Sergey Loznitsa – Krotkaya AKA A Gentle Creature (2017)
Quote: A woman lives alone on the outskirts of a village in Russia. One day she receives a parcel she sent to her incarcerated husband, marked ‘return to sender’. Shocked and confused, the woman has...
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Sidney Lumet – The Offence (1972)
PLOT: In Sidney Lumet’s harrowing portrayal of police brutality, Detective Sergeant Johnson has been with the British Police Force for 20 years. In that time, the countless murders, rapes and other...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Lebassi Baraye Arossi AKA Wedding Suit (1976)
لباسی برای عروسی A woman orders a suit from a tailor for her young son to wear to her sister’s wedding. The tailor’s apprentice, together with two other teenage boys who work in the same building,...
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André Téchiné – Nos années folles AKA Golden Years (2017)
Quote: As anyone who saw last year’s Being 17 knows, the great, undersung French filmmaker Andre Techine doesn’t direct like most 74-year-olds. It wasn’t just the racing camera and breathless pace...
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Jean-Luc Godard –Éloge de l’amour (2001)
In part one there is talk of a project on the subject of love, with the example of three couples, one young, one mature and the other elderly. At this point the author comes into contact with a young...
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George Cukor – A Woman’s Face (1941)
Quote: A supposedly superior remake of the 1938 Swedish film of the same name that starred Ingrid Bergman. It’s based on the French play Il etait une fois by Francis De Croisset and written by Donald...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Dow Rahehal Baraye yek Massaleh AKA Two Solutions for One...
دو راه حل برای يک مسئله Two young boys are classmates. When Nader returns his friend’s notebook, the cover of which he has inadvertently torn, the other is faced with two solutions: either he takes...
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Fritz Lang – Scarlet Street (1945)
Quote: Bleak.. grim… uncompromising… masterpiece… these are the words usually batted around about the film Fritz Lang considered his best American title. And the film lives up to these accolades...
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Laurent Cantet – L’atelier AKA The Workshop (2017)
Quote: The scene is set one Summer in La Ciotat, a town near Marseille which used to be prosperous thanks to its huge dockyard but has been in decline since its closing 25 years before. It is in this...
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Anna Jadowska – Dzikie róze AKA Wild Roses (2017)
Imdb: Ewa returns to her village after a hospital stay. She works on a plantation that grows wild roses. While Ewa was away her mother has been taking care of her children Marysia and Jas. Ewa’s...
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Jean Negulesco – Humoresque (1946)
Plot Synopsis [AMG] st’s novel Humoresque is the lachrymose tale of a famed Jewish-American violinist who forgets all about his friends and family in his rise to fame. Screenwriters Clifford Odets and...
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Abbas Kiarostami – Tadjrebeh AKA Experience (1973)
تجربه A fourteen-year-old boy is employed as general assistant in a photographer’s studio, where he is also allowed to sleep. From afar, he is in love with a girl who lives in a wealthy district. One...
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Alain Resnais – L’amour à mort AKA Love Unto Death (1984)
Quote: L’Amour à Mort (Love Unto Death) is one of the more difficult Resnais films of the 80s. Featuring a core of actors from La Vie Est un Roman who would also go on to make Mélo...
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Alexis Damianos – Evdokia (1971)
Synopsis: A prostitute (Evdokia) meets a sergeant (Yorgos). They fall in love and get married after a short love affair. Her profession, however, is a barrier for their relationship. They try to stay...
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Nonzee Nimibutr – OK baytong AKA Baytong (2003)
Plot: On hearing the news of the death of his sister, a Buddhist monk leaves the temple where he has lived for childhood and struggles to adjust to life on the outside as an uncle to a young niece and...
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John Ford – My Darling Clementine (1946)
‘Darling Clementine,’ With Henry Fonda as Marshal of Tombstone, a Stirring Film of West Let’s be specific about this: The eminent director, John Ford, is a man who has a way with a Western like nobody...
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