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Subgenre Sampler

 
Maria Full of GraceMaria Full of Grace (2004) Recommended
Dir. Joshua Marston
Feat. Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Guilied Lopez
An accomplished delve into the experience of a 'drug mule', a teenage Colombian girl who enlists to smuggle heroin into the United States, so as to…
Million Dollar BabyMillion Dollar Baby (2004) Recommended
Dir. Clint Eastwood
Feat. Hilary Swank, Morgan Freeman, Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood's straight–ahead drama about a feisty young woman who trains under his grizzled, reluctant coach to become a boxing champion…
MoolaadeMoolaade (2004) Recommended
Dir. Ousmane Sembene
Feat. Fatoumata Coulibaly
A rare glimpse for New Zealanders of the work of elderly Sengalese dir. Sembene – novelist, newspaper editor and founder of the New African…
SomersaultSomersault (2004)
Dir. Cate Shortland
Feat. Abbie Cornish, Sam Worthington, Lynette Curran
Visually impressive though underwritten account of a fragile Australian teenager who flees her home for the wider world after being caught in bed…
Twenty Thirty FortyTwenty Thirty Forty (20 30 40) (2004)
Dir. Sylvia Chang
Feat. Sylvia Chang, Rene Liu, Lee Sinji
The destinies of three women in contemporary urban Taiwan – aged 20, 30 and 40 – evolve in parallel as each feels their way through the…
Vera DrakeVera Drake (2004) Aro Favourite
Dir. Mike Leigh
Feat. Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Peter Wight
An impeccable period drama from Mike Leigh that ranks alongside the director's best work, this is the moving story of a middle aged woman who was…
Anatomy of HellAnatomy of Hell (Anatomie De L'enfer) (2003)
Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi
A queasily explicit sex drama about a suicidal woman who challenges (and pays) a promiscuous gay man to participate in an uneasy nightly ritual of…
Ashes and SandAshes and Sand (2003)
Dir. Bob Blagden
Feat. Nick Moran, Lara Belmont
Promising but ultimately disappointing drama set among the members of a girl–gang in Brighton, England. Although based on an…
Casa de los BabysCasa de los Babys (2003) Recommended
Dir. John Sayles
Feat. Maggie Gyllenhaal, Daryl Hannah, Marcia Gay Harden
Another quality ensemble drama from dir. John Sayles, that this time brings together six American women waiting to start a family through a Mexican…
Mother, TheMother, The (2003) Aro Favourite
Dir. Roger Michell
Feat. Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Stephen Mackintosh
An unforgettable British drama about an aging widow, alienated from her ambitious son and neurotic daughter, who confronts the vacuum of her life…

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