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Subgenre Sampler
Ladies On the Rocks (1984)- Dir. Christian Thomsen
Feat. Gotha Anderson, Bruno Bjorn, Peter Boesen - Two women cabaret performers win the hearts of provincial audiences with their raucous brand of feminist humour. Ironically, their increasing…
Legend of the Suram Fortress (1984)- Dir. Sergei Paradjanov
- Soviet dir. Sergei Paradjanov resumed his filmmaking career after years of exile with this visually rapturous, obscure folk tale. More opaque in…
Love Unto Death (L'amour à Mort) (1984)- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Sabine Azema, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi - Alain Resnais (HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR) pursues his themes of love and death with this symbolic tale of lovers Simon (Arditi) and Elizabeth (Azema)…
Lust For Love of a Chinese Courtesan (Ai nu xin zhuan) (1984)- Dir. Yuen Chor
- A middling remake by dir. Chor of his own classic 1972 Shaw Brothers sexploitationer INTIMATE CONFESSIONS OF A CHINESE COURTESAN. Tending towards a…
My New Partner (Les Ripoux) (1984)
- Dir. Claude Zidi
Feat. Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte - The genial Phillipe Noiret plays a slobbish corrupt cop saddled with a straight–laced partner in this hilarious caper comedy. It's a delight…
Runner, The (1984)- Dir. Amir Naderi
Feat. Abbas Nazeri, Majid Niroumand, Musa Torkizadeh - On a coastline strewn with the flotsam of the Arabian Gulf, an Iranian orphan boy scrapes a living together scavenging and selling ice before it…
Sunday in the Country, A (1984)- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Louis Ducreux, Sabine Azema, Michel Aumont… - An elderly painter invites his family to his country villa; in a single day their happinesses and sorrows come to be expressed. Subtle, intelligent…
Swann in Love (1984)- Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Jeremy Irons, Ornella Muti, Alain Delon… - Lavish filming of Proust's novel 'Remembrance of Things Past' which centres around a high class man who risks everything for his erotic obsessions.…
Three of Us, The (Noi Tre) (1984)- Dir. Pupi Avati
Feat. Christopher Davidson, Ida De Benedetto, Gianni Cavina… - Charming, though slender, portrayal of Mozart’s teenage life as the 14–year old musical prodigy spends a summer in Italy and starts to…
What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Carmen Maura - Carmen Maura plays a delirious feminist housewife in this early black–comic farce from Almodovar, here working at his freshest and most…
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