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Subgenre Sampler

 
Going to School with Dad on My BackGoing to School with Dad on My Back (Bei qi baba shangxue) (1997)
Dir. Youchou Zhou
Straightforwardly touching tale of a young boy, who with the help of his selfless family, graduates from his impoverished Malian River village to the…
Hamam - The Turkish BathHamam - The Turkish Bath (1997) Recommended
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 TogetherHappy Together (1997) Recommended
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…
HarmonistsHarmonists (Comedian Harmonists) (1997) Recommended
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 JesusLa Vie de Jesus (Life of Jesus) (1997) Recommended
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 FleshLive Flesh (1997) Aro Favourite
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 AubracLucie 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 SexuelleMa 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 JeannetteMarius et Jeannette (1997) Recommended
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…

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