Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Mystic Masseur, The (2002)- Dir. Ismail Merchant
Feat. Om Puri, James Fox - An ambitious adaptation of V.S. Naipul’s first novel, that traces the rise of a poor Indian student in 1950s Trinidad who emigrates to Oxford…
Nicholas Nickleby (2002)- Dir. Douglas McGrath
Feat. Stella Gonet, Christopher Plummer, Tom Courtenay… - Able–handed version of Dicken's classic of Victorian–age injustice, that respects both the comic and tragic sides to the tale. After…
Oasis (2002)
- Dir. Chang-Dong Lee
Feat. Kyung-gu Sol, So-ri Moon - Tough and emotionally powerful drama, highlighted by fearless performances, which charts the romance between a recent parolee and a cerebral…
Off (.OFF.) (2002)- Dir. Colin Hodson
Feat. Colin Hodson, Gregory King, George Rose… - Locally produced DV–feature which observes the activities of several drug associates, with a style both languid and, at times,…
On the Edge (2002)- Dir. John Carney
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea - Fairly risky and consistently bleak drama set around three teenage mental patients and their doctor. Thin treatment of the subject matter is redeemed…
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)- Dir. Shane Meadows
Feat. Robert Carlyle, Kathy Burke, Ricky Tomlinson… - The bittersweet dramatics of dir. Meadows (ROOM FOR ROMEO BRASS) get a fresh telling in this Nottingham drama, with the added spin of some ironic…
Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) (2002)- Dir. Susanne Bier
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter - A touch edgier than recent 'Dogme 95' melodramas, this explores the consequences of a car accident on the previously steady lives of those…
People I Know (2002)- Dir. Daniel Algrant
Feat. Al Pacino, Kim Basinger, Ryan O'Neal… - A NYC publicist personally and professionally crashing helps out a high–profile client and ends up trapped in a warren of drug fuelled scandal…
Personal Velocity (2002)
- Dir. Rebecca Miller
Feat. Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey, Fairuza Balk - Daughter of playwright Arthur Miller, Rebecca, announces herself as a talent worthy of her famous father on evidence of her second feature – a…
Pianist, The (2002)- Dir. Roman Polanski
Feat. Adrien Brody, Frank Finlay - Boldly visualised, fact–based drama concerning the Jewish pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman, who evaded Poland’s Nazi authorities during WW2, living…
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