Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1773 Films to Buy & Rent
Rosetta (1999)
- Dir. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Feat. Emilie Dequenne
- Drawing creative parallels with the Danish 'Dogma' movement, this is a rigidly intense study in survivalism that forsakes any plot contrivance to…
Three Seasons (1999)
- Dir. Tony Bui
Feat. Harvey Keitel
- The first US film to be shot in post–war Vietnam, this intertwined series of four tales set in contemporary Saigon, rapturously conveys a…
Time Regained (Le Temps Retrouve) (1999)
- Dir. Raul Ruiz
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Beart, John Malkovich…
- Legendary surrealist Chilean director Ruiz takes a break from his schedule or runaway obscurities (most sadly unavailable in NZ) for this legit…
Venus Beauty Institute (Venus Beauty) (1999)
- Dir. Tonie Marshall
Feat. Nathalie Baye, Audrey Tautou
- A modest beauty salon is the setting for this wry ensemble piece about the vagaries of womanhood, with an engagingly eccentric collection of clients…
Yi Yi (A One and a Two) (1999)
- Dir. Edward Yang
Feat. Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issey Ogata
- Masterful cinema – a drama that loosely surveys a middle–class family in contemporary Taipei, encompassing a wealth of human observation…
2 Seconds (1998)
- Dir. Manon Briand
Feat. Charlotte Laurier, Dino Tavarone
- A frothily enjoyable drama set around a mountain–bike rider (Laurier), who despite an addiction to the thrills of high speed cycling, is forced…
Alice Et Martin (1998)
- Dir. Andre Techine
Feat. Juliette Binoche, Carmen Maura, Mathieu Amalric
- A maladjusted young drifter (Alexis Loret) has success as a Paris fashion model and a torrid love affair with his half–brother's…
An Autumn Tale (1998)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Marie Riviere, Beatrice Romand, Alain Libolt
- Completing his suite of films based on the four seasons, dir. Rohmer provides another mellow, seemingly unplotted comedy, in which Rhone valley…
Beau Travail (1998)
- Dir. Claire Denis
Feat. Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin
- Best Film of 2000 for many highbrow critics, this oblique study of jealousy and power in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion is pure…
Besieged (1998)
- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Thandiwe Newton, David Thewlis
- Returning to a 'chamber–piece' setting reminiscent of LAST TANGO IN PARIS, dir. Bertolucci unfolds an enigmatic relationship in a Rome…