Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Butterfly's Tongue (La lengua de las mariposas) (1999)
- Dir. Jose Luis Cuerda
Feat. Fernando Fernan Gomez, Manuel Lozano - Heartwarming Spanish coming–of–age drama set in Galicia in 1936. Against the backdrop of the encroaching Spanish Civil War, a shy…
Cabaret Balkan (The Powder Keg) (1999)- Dir. Goran Paskaljevic
Feat. Nikola Ristanovski - Troubling split–portrait of the Serbian psyche, depicting a series of often violent incidents over the course of a single night in Belgrade,…
Celebration, The (Festen) (1999)- Dir. Thomas Vinterberg
Feat. Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen - Conceived and executed under the "Dogma 95" manifesto, this corrosive black comedy sees the birthday celebrations of a wealthy family implode after…
Children of the Marshlands (Les Enfants du Marais) (1999)- Dir. Jean Becker
Feat. Jacques Villeret, Michel Serrault, Eric Cantona - Old–fashioned French drama, whose 1930s Loire Valley setting is refreshingly free of the usual cliches, while remaining utterly charming and…
Colour of Paradise, The (1999)- Dir. Majid Majidi
Feat. Mohsen Ramezani - A gripping, compassionate study of a blind Iranian boy’s attempts to connect with his egotistical father and a carpentry tutor when he is taken to…
Cup, The (1999)- Dir. Khyentse Norbu
Feat. Orgyen Tobgyal, Neten Chokling, Jamyang Lodro - This charming, slyly comic tale of soccer–mad young monks obsessed with viewing the World Cup has found broad worldwide appreciation with its…
Girl on the Bridge, The (1999)- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Daniel Auteuil, Vanessa Paradis - This glossy slice of modern 'poetic realism' has an attractive visual component but its arch–Romanticism won't be everyone's glass of Chablis.…
Gloomy Sunday (Ein Lied Von Liebe Und Tod) (1999)
- Dir. Rolf Schubel
Feat. Joachim Krol, Erika Marozsan, Ben Becker… - Captivating drama which pivots around the apocryphal origins of the classic melancholy song 'Gloomy Sunday' in pre–WW2 Budapest. An amiably…
Gohatto (Taboo) (1999)- Dir. Nagisa Oshima
Feat. Takeshi Kitano - Visually stunning evocation of the tensions in a samurai–training school in 1860s Japan, with Kitano playing a captain who agonises over his…
Harmonium in my Memory, The (1999)- Dir. Young-jae Lee
Feat. Do-yeon Chun, Min-hie Kim, Byung-hun Lee - Sweet, soft–spoken melodrama of jittery first love, recalling the innocent love triangle that forms between a handsome, fresh–faced…
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