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Subgenre Sampler
Lumumba (2000)
- Dir. Raoul Peck
Feat. Eric Ebouaney - A strident and fittingly uncompromising biopic about an African political icon, Patrice Lumumba, who liberated the Congo from Belgium in the late…
Malena (2000)- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Monica Bellucci - The dir. of CINEMA PARADISO throws an amber–lit glow around a man’s memory of a boyhood infatuation in his hometown in WWII Sicily.…
Me You Them (Eu Tu Eles) (2000)- Dir. Andrucha Waddington
Feat. Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia - Set in the arid hinterlands of Brazil, this serio–comic study of rural polyandry has Regina Case (Brazil’s Oprah Winfrey) hitch up three…
One Hundred Steps, The (I Cento Passi) (2000)- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Expansive, fact–based drama set around a young man's fight against local mafiosos in the small Sicilian village of Cinisi in the…
Platform (Zhantai) (2000)- Dir. Jia Zhang-ke
Feat. Zhao Tao - Taking its title from a Chinese hit rock song of the 80s, this fetchingly spare epic meditates on the changes of that turbulent decade and the…
Presque Rien (Almost Nothing) (2000)- Dir. Sebastien Lifshitz
Feat. Jérémie Elkaïm, Stephane Rideau - French drama of melancholic first love that, despite the common themes, sets itself apart with sensitive acting and a deeply felt approach to the…
Road Home, The (2000)- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Zhang Ziyi, Honglei Sun, Hao Zhang - Tackling the period of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, period dir. Zhang Yimou (RAISE THE RED LANTERN) gives the story of a young man's return home…
Shadow Magic (2000)- Dir. Ann Hu
Feat. Jared Harris - The 'shadow magic' in question is the early cinema, which is brought to Beijing in 1902 by a travelling promoter (Harris), who, along with a local…
Shower (Xizhao) (2000)- Dir. Zhang Yang
Feat. Pu Cunxin, Zhu Xu - A popular success with international audiences, this Chinese comedy is centred around a modern–day bathhouse in Beijing without a…
Sky Is Falling, The (Cielo cade, Il) (2000)- Dir. Andrea Frazzi, Antonio Frazzi
Feat. Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbe - Two young orphan girls are sent to live with relatives in Tuscany, Italy during WW2 and discover intriguing new perspectives through their Jewish…
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