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Subgenre Sampler
Official Story, The (1985)
- Dir. Luis Puenzo
Feat. Hector Alterio, Norma Aleandro, Chunchuna Villafane - The heart–wrenching official story of a woman who discovers her adopted daughter was stolen at birth by the then military dictatorship. This…
Ran (1985)- Dir. Akira Kurosawa
Feat. Tatsuya Nakadai - The title translates to 'chaos'; it is Kurosawa's vast and bloody interpretation of Shakespeare's King Lear. Grandiose in every sense – a…
Vagabond (1985)- Dir. Agnes Varda
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire - Award–winning drama that artfully presents poetic moments from young vagabond Sandrine Bonnaire’s last month alive, listlessly drifting…
When Father Was Away on Business (1985)- Dir. Emir Kusturica
Feat. Moreno de Bartolli, Miki Manojlovic, Mira Furlan - A delightful dramedy of social upheaval, set during Yugoslavia’s Tito–Stalin conflict of the 1950s. Kusturica filters the tribulations of…
And the Ship Sails On (1984)- Dir. Federico Fellini
Feat. Freddie Jones, Barbara Jefford, Victor Poletti - An idyllic odyssey aboard an ocean liner, where celebrated guests who have gathered for the funeral voyage of a great opera star are introduced in…
Element of Crime, The (1984)- Dir. Lars Von Trier
Feat. Michael Elphick - A detective’s unconventional methods qualify him for the investigation of child murders in a dark, decaying, post–apocalyptic Germany.…
Full Moon in Paris (1984)- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Pascale Ogier, Fabrice Luchini, Christian Vadim… - From Rohmer's 'Comedies and Proverbs' series, wit and subtlety is derived from the simplest of plots. This time a headstrong woman's plans backfire…
Holy Innocents, The (1984)- Dir. Mario Camus
Feat. Alfredo Landa, Terele Pavez, Belen Ballesteros - A soldier returns to his rural croft and recalls his impoverished family's struggle with daily life and unscrupulous landlords. The bitter climate of…
Kaos (1984)- Dir. Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
- Marvellous but rarely seen compendium of four tales (and an epilogue) by Luigi Pirandello set in the parched landscape of Sicily. 'The Other Son'…
Legend of the Suram Fortress (1984)- Dir. Sergei Paradjanov
- Soviet dir. Sergei Paradjanov resumed his filmmaking career after years of exile with this visually rapturous, obscure folk tale. More opaque in…
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