Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Code, The (La Mentale) (2002)- Dir. Manuel Boursinhac
Feat. Samuel Le Bihan - Convincingly gritty crime drama set in the drab outer zone of Paris' apartment estates and trailer parks, with a recently paroled hood (Le Bihan)…
Crime of Father Amaro, The (El Crimen del padre Amaro) (2002)
- Dir. Carlos Carrera
Feat. Gael Garcia Bernal - Melodramatic and ironic critique of the crimes of the Roman Catholic church that was hugely successful in its native Mexico. A young priest…
Cuckoo, The (Kukushka) (2002)- Dir. Aleksandr Rogozhkin
Feat. Anni-Kristiina Juuso, Ville Haapasalo, Viktor Bychkov - An earthy drama of non–communication set amid the frozen WW2 battleground of Lapland, where a pacifist Finnish soldier, a survivalist Russian…
Dark Water (2002)
- Dir. Hideo Nakata
Feat. Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno - Running rings around the RING films in unsettling atmosphere, rich subtext and jump–in–your–seat moments, this creepy fable of…
Dead or Alive 3 (Final) (2002)- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Sho Aikawa, Riki Takeuchi - Imaginative, futuristic final entry in a remarkable action trilogy that this time presents its anti–heroic pair toughing it out in a dystopian…
Demonlover (2002)- Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Chloe Sevigny… - An insinuating future–shock Euro–thriller, with Connie Neilsen as an attractive corporate executive caught in the…
Devdas (2002)- Dir. Sanjay Leela Bhansali
Feat. Shahrukh Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Aishwarya Rai - The most expensive production in Bollywood history to date is this gorgeously extravagant soap opera based on one of India’s most widely–read…
Dolls (2002)- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Miho Kanno, Tatsuya Mihashi - Beautiful to behold with its spectacular Japanese vistas, but unfocused in content, dir. Takeshi stumbles with an art film that feels stranded…
Double Vision (Shuang tong) (2002)- Dir. Chen Kuo Fu
Feat. David Morse, Tony Leung (Kar-fai), Rene Liu - A slickly effective horror film, in which cross–cultural cop buddies Leung and Morse hunt a demonic serial killer in Taiwan. Imbued with a…
Drowned Out (2002)- Dir. Franny Armstrong
- A forerunner, and now excellent companion piece to the much vaunted UP THE YANGTZE, this captures in sobering close–up the plight of an Indian…
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