Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1776 Films to Buy & Rent
Kings and Queen (Rois et reine) (2004)
- Dir. Arnaud Desplechin
Feat. Emmanuelle Devos, Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve…
- A tragicomedy of multiple layers and degrees untangles the complicated life of one Emmanuelle Devos, and the various men she calls her own.
Spun…
Land Has Eyes, The (Pear ta ma 'on maf) (2004)
- Dir. Vilsoni Hereniko
Feat. Sapeta Taito, Rena Owen, Voi Fesaitu
- The first ever Fijian feature film, this evokes WHALE RIDER with its tale of a young woman (Taito) who aspires to transcend an existence…
Life I Want, The (Vita che vorrei, La) (2004)
- Dir. Giuseppe Piccioni
Feat. Luigi Lo Cascio, Sandra Ceccarelli
- Intriguing Italian romantic drama about two avid actors cast as lovers who begin to cross over the boundaries of stage–life and reality with an…
Life is a Miracle (Zivot je cudo) (2004)
- Dir. Emir Kusturica
Feat. Slavko Stimac, Natasa Solak
- Another feverish, frenetic and heartfelt vision from Balkan dir. Emir Kusturica (UNDERGOUND), attempting here to fathom and unknot the bloody Bosnian…
Light, The (L'Équipier) (2004)
- Dir. Philippe Lioret
Feat. Sandrine Bonnaire, Philippe Torreton, Anne Consigny
- Impeccable Gallic melodrama of family history concerns the arrival of a stranger to a xenophobic Breton community in the ‘60s to work on a…
Look At Me (Comme une Image) (2004)
- Dir. Agnes Jaoui
Feat. Jean-Pierre Bacri, Agnes Jaoui
- Another diverting comedy of manners from the husband–wife creative team behind THE TASTE OF OTHERS, set among the fragile egos of the literary…
Love in Thoughts (2004)
- Dir. Achim von Borries
Feat. Daniel Bruhl, August Diehl, Anna Maria Muhe…
- Melancholic true story of two self absorbed teenagers who make a pact to kill themselves should they no longer feel love and kill those who robbed…
Ma Mere (My Mother) (2004)
- Dir. Christophe Honore
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Louis Garrel, Emma de Caunes
- A perverse Mediterranean sex–romp that manages to skirt regularly between tasteless debauchery and absurd immorality.
A heady Isabelle…
Machuca (2004)
- Dir. Andres Wood
Feat. Ariel Mateluna, Matias Quer
- Observing the onset of Augusto Pinochet's bloody coup d'etat in Chile in 1973, through the eyes of two boys who become friends across the…
Maria Full of Grace (2004)
- Dir. Joshua Marston
Feat. Catalina Sandino Moreno, Yenny Paola Vega, Guilied Lopez…
- An accomplished delve into the experience of a 'drug mule', a teenage Colombian girl who enlists to smuggle heroin into the United States, so as to…