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Subgenre Sampler
Man Without a Past, The (2002)
- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen - Another understated, double–take comedy from Finnish dir. Kaurismaki, making perhaps his most cleverly balanced work yet. An itinerant…
Monday Morning (Lundi Matin) (2002)- Dir. Otar Iosseliani
Feat. Jacques Bidou - A whimsical comic journey for a French factory worker, who uproots from his village and family in search of philosophical and liquid refreshment in…
Monsieur Batignole (2002)- Dir. Gerard Jugnot
Feat. Gerard Jugnot - An ironic comedy set in WW2 Paris, in which the titular butcher helps himself to an apartment vacated by a Jewish family who have been rounded up by…
Mostly Martha (Bella Martha) (2002)- Dir. Sandra Nettelbeck
Feat. Martina Gedeck, Sergio Castellitto - Light and satisfying dish, concerning the frissions in a Hamburg restaurant between a chef, her eight year old neice and a talented…
Ping Pong (2002)- Dir. Fumisiko Sori
Feat. Yôsuke Kubozuka, Arata - A madcap, yet gently humourous Japanese sports tale, set around two table tennis hotshots (Kubozuka and Arata) preparing for a ferocious battle at a…
Respiro (Grazia's Island) (2002)- Dir. Emanuele Crialese
Feat. Valeria Golino - Highly charged and mostly insightful depiction of a free–spirited woman whose near–psychotic episodes have a profound effect on her small…
Spanish Apartment, The (L'Auberge Espagnole) (2002)- Dir. Cedric Klapisch
Feat. Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Judith Godreche… - Summery comedy set in a Barcelona apartment, where six international exchange students variously mingle, cavort and fall messily in love. Although…
Summer Things (Embrassez qui vous voudrez) (2002)- Dir. Michel Blanc
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Jacques Dutronc, Carole Bouquet… - Rom–com with an ensemble cast led by Charlotte Rampling as an unhappily married woman who is off to stay at a seaside resort, where she…
8 Women (8 Femmes) (2001)- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Emmanuelle Beart… - In the classic whodunnit mould, this whimsical French "thriller" starts with a man’s dead body in a snowbound Alpine manse in the 1950s, and eight…
Amelie (2001)- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz - A charming romantic comedy stamped with the purely cinematic style of dir. Jean–Pierre Juenet, who here remixes intricate set pieces, editing…
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