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Subgenre Sampler
Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train (1998)
- Dir. Patrice Chereau
Feat. Pascal Greggory, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Charles Berling… - Friends and associates of a deceased painter make a procession, via train, to the artist’s burial in this superb French drama. A highly nuanced…
Waking the Dead (1998)- Dir. Keith Gordon
Feat. Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly - A curious, intriguing drama in which congressional candidate Billy Crudup is haunted by a woman (Jennifer Connelly) from his past, who he thought had…
What Dreams May Come (1998)- Dir. Vincent Ward
Feat. Robin Williams, Annabella Sciorra, Cuba Jr. Gooding - Visually extravagant dive into the afterlife, courtesy of New Zealander Vincent Ward, applying his classically–educated eye to a…
Wuthering Heights (1998)- Dir. David Skynner
Feat. Robert Cavanah, Orla Brady, Peter Davison - Faithful adaptation of Emily Bronte's classic Gothic romance of the Yorkshire moors, flavoured by the Irish casting of Robert Cavanah and Orla Brady.
Gadjo Dilo (1997)- Dir. Tony Gatlif
Feat. Romain Duris, Rona Harther, Izidor Serban - Re–casting a spotlight onto the poor and downtrodden yet spiritually rich gypsy culture, film–maker/musician Toni Gatlif grafts a…
Jane Eyre (1997)- Dir. Robert Young
Feat. Samantha Morton, Ciaran Hinds, Deborah Findlay… - Suitably gothic retelling of Charlotte Brontë's classic tale of a Yorkshire orphan who becomes a governess and falls for the brooding lord of the…
- Kitchen (1997)
- Dir. Yim Ho
Feat. Jordan Chan, Yasuko Tomita - Treading the same grungy Hong Kong streets as the films of Wong Kar–Wai, this adaptation of a novel by Banana Yoshimoto concerns a love affair…
Marius et Jeannette (1997)- Dir. Robert Guediguian
Feat. Ariane Ascaride, Gerard Meylan - A laidback yet buoyant slice–of–ordinary–life set on the low–rent side of Marseille, where two wounded fortysomethings strike…
Merry War, A (Keep the Aspidistra Flying) (1997)- Dir. Robert Bierman
Feat. Richard E. Grant, Helena Bonham Carter - A literate, aware version of George Orwell's early comic novel set in a stagnating 1930s Britain. Richard E Grant plays Orwell's self–parody of…
Mill On the Floss (1997)- Dir. Graham Theakston
Feat. Emily Watson, Bernard Hill - The incandescent Emily Watson justifies this Masterpiece Theatre version of George Eliot's Victorian novel (considerably simplified), bringing some…
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