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Subgenre Sampler

 
Bitter HarvestBitter Harvest (How Harry Became a Tree) (2001)
Dir. Goran Paskaljevic
Feat. Cillian Murphy, Adrian Dunbar, Colm Meaney
Set in 1920s rural Ireland, this raw fable concerns a troubled widower (Meaney) who tries to make a comeback in life by launching a personal vendetta…
Bob and Rose (TV Series)Bob and Rose (TV Series) (2001)
Dir. Julian Farino, Joe Wright
Feat. Alan Davies, Lesley Sharp
Smart, open–minded relationship drama contemplates the possibility of a gay man and a straight woman falling in love. Devoid of stereotypes,…
Book Group, The (TV Series)Book Group, The (TV Series) (2001)
Dir. Annie Griffin
Feat. Anne Dudek, Rory McCann, James Lance
Browses amusingly through the lives of a mixed group of Glaswegian book–lovers, who have weekly meetings to discuss their literary…
BoycottBoycott (2001) Recommended
Dir. Clark Johnson
Feat. Jeffrey Wright
HBO’s excellent, underplayed dramatisation of the Rosa Parks story, who in Alabama in 1955 refused to give up her bus–seat to a white man, in…
Brief CrossingBrief Crossing (2001)
Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Gilles Guillain, Sarah Pratt
Compelling and explicit portrayal of the brief sexual encounter between a naive French teenager and a married English woman who meet on an overnight…
Buffalo SoldiersBuffalo Soldiers (2001)
Dir. Gregor Jordan
Feat. Joaquin Phoenix, Anna Paquin, Ed Harris
Broadly subversive drama set among the bored US Army Corp guarding West Germany just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Chiefly tracks…
BullyBully (2001) Recommended
Dir. Larry Clark
Feat. Brad Renfro, Leo Fitzpatrick, Nick Stahl
A true–life story of Florida murder, teenager style, which dir. Clark uses to produce an X–rated, yet quite recognisable portrait of…
Business of Strangers, TheBusiness of Strangers, The (2001)
Dir. Patrick Stettner
Feat. Stockard Channing, Julia Stiles, Frederick Weller
In what amounts to a gender–flip of “In the Company of Men”, Stocking Channing and Julia Stiles are business women polarized by money,…
Captain Corelli's MandolinCaptain Corelli's Mandolin (2001)
Dir. John Madden
Feat. Penelope Cruz, Christian Bale, Nicolas Cage
A melodiously played costume–drama, that unfolds on the Greek island of Cephalonia during WWII. Occupation by Italian and later German…
Cat's Meow, TheCat's Meow, The (2001)
Dir. Peter Bogdanovich
Feat. Eddie Izzard, Kirsten Dunst, Edward Herrmann
Returning to the dir.’s chair, Peter Bogdanovich revisits one of the juiciest scandals in Hollywood history: the mysterious death of filmmaker…

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