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Subgenre Sampler
Conversation Piece (1974)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano - A retired professor, who leads of solitary and ordered existence is disturbed by rich and overbearing new tenants in his Roman palazzo. Assembles…
Effi Briest (1974)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Hanna Schygulla - Thoughtful drama, from provocative German Dir. Fassbinder, recounting the story of a stifled married woman whose long hidden affair reveals itself…
French Screen Icons: Romy Schneider (Love in the Rain, A Woman at Her Window) (1974-1976)- Feat. Romy Schneider
- Two French films from the 1970's starring German–born screen icon, Romy Schneider.
La Gueule Ouverte (The Mouth Agape) (1974)
- Dir. Maurice Pialat
Feat. Hubert Deschamps, Monique Mélinand, Philippe Leotard… - Devastating drama from dir. Pialat distills autobiographical material into an edifying portrait of terminal illness, and the emotional state of the…
La Maman Et La Putain (the Mother and the Whore) (1974)- Dir. Jean Eustache
Feat. Bernadette Lafont, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Francoise Lebrun - At just over three and a half hours, this domestic chamber drama – probably the last great film of the French New Wave – is not for the…
Lacombe Lucien (1974)
- Dir. Louis Malle
Feat. Pierre Blaise, Aurore Clement - A subtle, probing study of the psychology of collaboration set in WW2 rural France, sees young peasant lad Pierre Blaise drawn into the local…
Lancelot Du Lac (1974)- Dir. Robert Bresson
Feat. Luc Simon, Laura Duke Condominas, Humbert Balsan… - Bresson endows the legend of King Arthur with his unique style and vision, and exposes a density of ideas by stripping the story back to its base…
Love in the Rain (Un amour de pluie) (1974)- Dir. Jean-Claude Brialy
Feat. Romy Schneider, Nino Castelnuovo, Suzanne Flon - More pomp and circumstance from Romy Schneider, here playing a well–to–do French woman indulging in various love affairs while holidaying…
Martha (1974)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Margit Carstensen, Karlheinz Bohm - Addressing his favourite subject, emotional cruelty, Dir. Fassbinder skillfully works a vein of pitch–black comedy in depicting Margit…
Mirror (Zerkalo) (1974)- Dir. Andrei Tarkovsky
Feat. Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya - Appropriately titled autobiography of Tarkovsky's childhood, impressioned by the volatile cultural environment. Unique in both form and vision, this…
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