Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Ulee's Gold (1997)
- Dir. Victor Nunez
Feat. Peter Fonda, Patricia Richardson, Jessica Biel - Peter Fonda gives good grace as an ageing, emotionally reticent beekeeper who is much less at ease with what's going on in his family's hive, a unit…
Under the Skin (1997)- Dir. Carine Adler
Feat. Samantha Morton, Claire Rushbrook, Rita Tushingham - After her mother's untimely death, a young woman bereaves through a series of casual sexual, and increasingly masochistic, encounters. Samantha…
Unknown Pleasures / Xiao Wu (1997-2002)- Dir. Jia Zhang-ke
Feat. Zhao Tao - Two astonishing features from gifted 'sixth generation' Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhang–ke (PLATFORM, THE WORLD); his terrain the onset of popular…
Washington Square (1997)- Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Feat. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Ben Chaplin, Maggie Smith… - Portrait of a lady adapted from the pen of Henry James profits from an exemplary Jennifer Jason Leigh performance – as an eccentric, plain…
Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)- Dir. Stephen Surjik
Feat. Gabriel Byrne, Ben Kingsley, Mimi Rogers… - Media moguls Gabriel Byrne and Ben Kingsley vie for ownership of a pro football team, in an escalating war of one–upmanship, eventually raking…
Well, The (1997)- Dir. Samantha Lang
Feat. Miranda Otto, Pamela Rabe - Evocative Gothic psychodrama, firmly in the Jane Campion mould, effectively explores the dark side of female relationships in ominous blue–grey…
Whole of the Moon, The (1997)- Dir. Ian Mune
Feat. Toby Fisher, Nikki Si'Ulepa, Pascale Bussieres… - Heartfelt yet uplifting story of two disparate teenage cancer patients who find strength in their misfortune. Dir. Ian Mune's talent for coaxing…
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Romeo + Juliet) (1997)- Dir. Baz Luhrmann
Feat. Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Pete Postlethwaite… - Visionary director Baz Luhrmann takes his STRICTLY BALLROOM crew to the Americas and conjures a cinematic universe of striking originality and…
Wings of the Dove, The (1997)
- Dir. Iain Softley
Feat. Helena Bonham Carter, Linus Roache, Charlotte Rampling… - Helena Bonham–Carter, back in costume, shines in this adaptation of the Henry James novel, playing a 19th century gentlewoman on the…
Winter Guest, The (1997)- Dir. Alan Rickman
Feat. Emma Thompson, Phyllida Law, Gary Hollywood - Emma Thompson ventures to farther–flung fields in a contemporary family melodrama played out within the bleak confines of a wintery British…
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