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Subgenre Sampler
Taste of Others, The (Le Gout des Autres) (2000)
- Dir. Agnes Jaoui
Feat. Anne Alvaro, Alain Chabat, Jean-Pierre Bacri… - A subtle French comedy of manners, that strews an array of matched, mismatched and all quite droll characters into a satisfying treat for the comic…
Tears of the Black Tiger (Fah Talai Jone) (2000)
- Dir. Wisit Sasanatieng
- A blast of wild inspiration from the New Thai Cinema, this restages a Hollywood Western within a luridly kitschy setting using back–projection,…
The Best Man's Wedding (Jalla! Jalla!) (2000)- Dir. Josef Fares
- A racy comic swirl through the family, romantic, sexual and general personal dilemmas of two Swedish best friends. While one must suffer the…
Attack the Gas Station (1999)- Dir. Sang-Jin Kim
Feat. Sung-jae Lee, Oh-seong Yu, Seong-jin Kang… - Four disaffected youths take hostage an entire gas station in this subversive, blackly–comic masterpiece from Korea. Gleefully tearing apart…
Carriers Are Waiting, The (Les Convoyeurs Attendent) (1999)- Dir. Benoit Maraige
Feat. Benoit Poelvoorde, Morgane Simon, Bouli Laners - When journalist Benoit Poelvoorde decides his family MUST win top prize in local competition (which involves training his reluctant son to break the…
Cup, The (1999)- Dir. Khyentse Norbu
Feat. Orgyen Tobgyal, Neten Chokling, Jamyang Lodro - This charming, slyly comic tale of soccer–mad young monks obsessed with viewing the World Cup has found broad worldwide appreciation with its…
Human Resources (1999)- Dir. Laurent Cantet
Feat. Jalil Lespert - Astute French drama from director Laurent Cantet (THE CLASS) set in a white collar human resources department in Normandy, about the conflicts that…
Kikujiro (Kikujiro no Natsu) (1999)- Dir. Takeshi Kitano
Feat. Takeshi Kitano - An uncharacteristically easy–going, episodic road movie from one–man movie machine, Beat Takeshi, whose impassive screen persona snugly…
King of Comedy (Choi kek ji wong) (1999)- Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao), Karen Mok - Hong Kong’s king–of–parody Stephen Chow ironically casts himself as a luckless movie extra who fumbles his way to leading man status…
Mifune (1999)- Dir. Soren Kragh-Jacobson
Feat. Iben Hjejle, Anders W Berthelsen, Jesper Asholt… - The third Dogma 95 film is in many ways as traditional a European romantic comedy as you could come across, a breezy and smart take on a yuppie…
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