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Subgenre Sampler

 
Days of Abandonment, The Days of Abandonment, The (I Giorni dell'abbandono) (2005) Recommended
Dir. Roberto Faenza
Feat. Margherita Buy, Luca Zingaretti
Shattering Italian drama with Margherita Buy in a breathtakingly brutal performance as a middle–age woman left by her husband who deteriorates…
Death of Mr Lazarescu, TheDeath of Mr Lazarescu, The (2005) Recommended
Dir. Cristi Puiu
Feat. Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminita Gheorghiu
Whirling, labyrinthine black comedy follows with interest the Kafkaesque plight of an ailing elderly drunk, whose stomach pains are met with…
El ViolinEl Violin (2005) Recommended
Dir. Francisco Vargas
Feat. Angel Tavira
A one–handed violinist commands this potent political history of Mexico’s 1970s Guerrero peasant revolt. Plotting to befriend the…
Elsa and FredElsa and Fred (2005)
Dir. Marcos Carnevale
Feat. Manuel Alexandre, China Zorrilla
Exquisitely acted romance between a pair of senior citizens expresses enough tenderness and fragility to overcome its rather prosaic storyline.…
FamiliaFamilia (2005) Recommended
Dir. Lousie Archambault
Feat. Mylene St-Sauveur, Macha Grenon, Sylvie Moreau
Multi–faceted, thoroughly entertaining drama centres on the frequently discordant child–rearing beliefs of two friends as they attempt to…
FatelessFateless (Sorstalanság) (2005) Recommended
Dir. Lajos Koltai
Feat. Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimeny, Daniel Craig
Harrowing and distilled vision of the Holocaust adapted from a novel by concentration–camp survivor and Nobel prize–winning author Imre…
GabrielleGabrielle (2005)
Dir. Patrice Chereau
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory
Absorbing adaptation of a Joseph Conrad short story coolly dissects the disintegrating marriage of a bourgeois French couple. Gorgeously framed…
Heading SouthHeading South (Vers le sud) (2005)
Dir. Laurence Cantet
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Karen Young, Louise Portal
Pensive women's drama from the dir. of TIME OUT, set on a Haitian beach resort frequented by wealthy westerners and male gigolos. Set in the 70s…
House of Sand, TheHouse of Sand, The (2005)
Dir. Andrucha Waddington
Feat. Fernanda Montenegro, Fernanda Torres, Ruy Guerra
Rapturous cinematography transforms this melodramatic saga of three generations of women stranded in Brazil’s inhospitable Maranhão region, into…
How Much Do You Love Me?How Much Do You Love Me? (Combien tu m'aimes?) (2005)
Dir. Bertrand Blier
Feat. Monica Bellucci, Gerard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Akin to THE VALET’s improbable live–in relationship, but offering entirely different results, this peculiar comedy–romance stars Monica…

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