Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Y Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too!) (2001)
- Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna - Acclaimed universally (and here in NZ beset with censorship wrangles), this Mexican joyride, taken by two teenage boys and an older woman, is indeed…
101 Reykjavik (2000)
- Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Baltasar Kormakur, Victoria Abril - An endearingly skewed yet unexpectedly poignant sex comedy moored in the 30–below temperatures of the Icelandic winter, about a…
Barking Dogs Never Bite (Flandersui gae) (2000)- Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Doona Bae - An accomplished black comedy from Korea, which follows an unemployed lecturer's annoyance with the barking of neighbourhood dogs through to its…
Malena (2000)- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Monica Bellucci - The dir. of CINEMA PARADISO throws an amber–lit glow around a man’s memory of a boyhood infatuation in his hometown in WWII Sicily.…
Shower (Xizhao) (2000)- Dir. Zhang Yang
Feat. Pu Cunxin, Zhu Xu - A popular success with international audiences, this Chinese comedy is centred around a modern–day bathhouse in Beijing without a…
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…
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