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Subgenre Sampler

 
Code, TheCode, 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, TheCrime of Father Amaro, The (El Crimen del padre Amaro) (2002) Recommended
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, TheCuckoo, 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 WaterDark Water (2002) Aro Favourite
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 3Dead 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…
DemonloverDemonlover (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…
DevdasDevdas (2002) Recommended
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…
DollsDolls (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 VisionDouble 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 Drowned Out (2002) Recommended
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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