Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Hamam - The Turkish Bath (1997)
- Dir. Ferzan Ozpetek
Feat. Alessandro Gassman, Francesca d'Aloja, Carlo Cecchi - Beautifully presented, exotic drama about a young Italian designer whose sexual and spiritual life takes a profound turn after inheriting a steam…
Happy Together (1997)- Dir. Wong Kar-Wai
Feat. Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Chen Chang - Wong Kar Wai's South American gay love story features the usual dazzling Christopher Doyle camerawork, but replaces the genre thrills of FALLEN…
Harmonists (Comedian Harmonists) (1997)- Dir. Joseph Vilsmaier
Feat. Ben Becker, Heino Ferch, Ulrich Noethen… - The most popular singing group of 1920s Germany, the sextet Comedian Harmonists toured widely and were world–famous by the mid–30s.…
Kitchen (1997)- Dir. Yim Ho
Feat. Jordan Chan, Yasuko Tomita - Treading the same grungy Hong Kong streets as the films of Wong Kar–Wai, this adaptation of a novel by Banana Yoshimoto concerns a love affair…
La Vie de Jesus (Life of Jesus) (1997)- Dir. Bruno Dumont
- Virtuoso bleakness from the dir. of TWENTYNINE PALMS, in his debut study of alienated existence for a group of unruly skinheads in rural Flanders who…
Live Flesh (1997)
- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Javier Bardem, Francesca Neri, Liberto Rabal - Five aggrieved characters get wrapped in a sticky web of consequence after a fateful incident leaves one paralysed and another in jail. Dir.…
Lucie Aubrac (1997)- Dir. Claude Berri
Feat. Carole Bouquet, Klaus Barbie - French Resistance true–story from the period–eye of dir. Claude Berri (JEAN DE FLORETTE), offering a romantic sub–plot between…
Ma Vie Sexuelle (1997)- Dir. Arnaud Desplechin
Feat. Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Emmanuel Salinger - Ponderous study of Parisian twentysomething ennui centering around a typically amoral, self–obsessed Frenchman who has few problems bedding…
Marius et Jeannette (1997)- Dir. Robert Guediguian
Feat. Ariane Ascaride, Gerard Meylan - A laidback yet buoyant slice–of–ordinary–life set on the low–rent side of Marseille, where two wounded fortysomethings strike…
On Connait la Chanson (Same Old Song) (1997)- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azema, Jean-Pierre Bacri… - A winner of seven Cesar awards, this light–hearted homage to Dennis Potter applies his musical–cinematic ideas to the…
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