Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Other Side of Sunday, The (1996)- Dir. Berit Nesheim
Feat. Marie Theisen, Bjorn Sundquist, Hildegun Riise - Yearning to discover the 'other side' of life in 1950s Norway, teenager Marie Theisen evades her harshly religious father to explore the amorphous…
Ponette (1996)
- Dir. Jacques Doillon
Feat. Victoire Thivisol - Staying at her Aunt's provincial cottage after the accidental death of her mother, a four–year–old girl comes to terms with death, while…
Pretty Village, Pretty Flame (1996)
- Dir. Sadjan Dragojevic
Feat. Dragan Bjelorgrlic, Nikola Kojo - Seen in flashback from a ward in triage, the Bosnian war is portrayed in a riveting counter–play of nihilism and theatre, as a band of Serbian…
Prisoner of the Mountains (1996)- Dir. Sergei Bodrov
Feat. Oleg Menshikov, Sergei Bodrov Jr, Susanna Mekhraliyeva… - A Tolstoy fable is here seamlessly transposed to the Chechean conflict, with two Russian soldiers apprehended by a Chechean village elder who hopes…
Promise, The (La Promesse) (1996)- Dir. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Feat. Jeremie Renier, Olivier Gourmet - A deceptively modest, altogether riveting early film from the Dardenne brothers, here test–driving the formal rigors of their unwavering…
Pure Formality, A (Una pura formalità) (1996)- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Roman Polanski - A chilling interrogation of an elusive murder suspect transpires under weather most foul. Roman Polanski and Gerard Depardieu face–off…
Pusher (1996)- Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Feat. Kim Bodnia, Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen - Intense Danish thriller follows a fast–living drug dealer's (Bodnia) downward arc after he inadvertantly loses a load of product and tries to…
Ridicule (1996)- Dir. Patrice Leconte
Feat. Charles Berling, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Ardant… - Delightful Cesar–winning comedy set in the Court of Louis XVI in 1700s France where the King grants favours to those endowed with only the…
Satan Returns (1996)- Dir. Allan Lam
Feat. Chingmy Yau, Donnie Yen - On a rash mission to find the devil's daughter, a cult member with strange powers resorts to wrenching the hearts (and we mean literally) of women…
Self Made Hero, A (1996)- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Mathieu Kassovitz - Mattieu Kassovitz (director of LA HAINE) proves to be no slouch actor here as a WW2 idler who swats up and cheekily ascends the ranks of the…
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