Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3375 Films to Buy & Rent
Love On a Diet (2001)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng
- The dir. of HEROIC TRIO, takes a serious change of tack with a weight–problem comedy. Looking to re–ignite her former romance with…
Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Nightcap) (2001)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert
- Slyly subversive psychodrama, with Isabelle Huppert excelling as the owner of a Swiss chocolate–business, who also happens to be a…
Millennium Mambo (2001)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Shu Qi
- The first in dir. Hou’s ‘contemporary youth’ trilogy is a light–infused strobe of aimless young adults living in the accelerated urban…
Minor Mishaps (2001)
- Dir. Annette K. Olesen
Feat. Jorgen Kiil, Maria Wurgler Rich, Jannie Faurschou
- Emerging from the lighter end of the Dogme 95 movement, this drama reunites a father and three children after the death of their mother in a car…
Mortal Transfer (2001)
- Dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Miki Manojlovic, Helene de Fougerolles…
- Freudian psycho–thriller with analyst Anglade finding himself a little too attracted to masochistic patient de Fougerolles. Delirious visuals…
Musa - The Warrior (2001)
- Dir. Kim Sung-Su
Feat. Woo-sung Jung, Ahn Sung-Ki, Zhang Ziyi
- Genuinely spectacular 14th century restaging of "The Seven Samurai" that was the (then) most expensive film made in its native…
My Wife is an Actress (Ma Femme est une Actrice) (2001)
- Dir. Yvan Attal
Feat. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yvan Attal, Terence Stamp
- Obviously modelled on his own life, first time writer/director Yvan Attal tailors a project for his real–life wife, Charlotte Gainsbourg, who…
Naked, The (Golasy) (2001)
- Dir. Witold Swiêtnicki
- Genuine oddity, this Polish satire upon the tedium of the Soviet era, as experienced by an office full of white–collar workers, is lent a…
Night Shift (Trois Huit) (2001)
- Dir. Phillippe Le Guay
Feat. Gérald Laroche, Marc Barbe
- Tense French workplace drama about a mild–mannered factory employee who must cope with a vindictive and domineering co–worker.
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One Take Only (Som and Bank: Bangkok for Sale) (2001)
- Dir. Oxide Pang
Feat. Wanatchada Siwapornchai, Pawarith Monkolpisit
- Another visually dizzying trip into the dens of the Thai capital for dir. Pang, this time steering a tale of two streetwise lovers – a…