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Subgenre Sampler

 
Very Long Engagement, AVery Long Engagement, A (Long dimanche de fiançailles, Un) (2004) Recommended
Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Clovis Cornillac
Another crowd–pleasing favourite from the dir. of AMELIE, which uses the Great War as setting for the fairytale search by Audrey Tatou for her…
Wayward Cloud, TheWayward Cloud, The (2004)
Dir. Ming-liang Tsai
Feat. Kang-sheng Lee, Shiang-chyi Chen
Eye–popping musical numbers burst forth from this outré Tsai Ming–liang offering, which couples the Taiwanese director’s usual…
World, TheWorld, The (Shijie) (2004)
Dir. Jia Zhang-ke
Feat. Zhao Tao
The dir. of PLATFORM continues his perceptive and wry dissection of Chinese society reacting with surreal clumsiness to the forces of globalisation,…
YesterdayYesterday (2004)
Dir. Darrell Roodt
Feat. Kenneth Khambula, Leleti Khumalo
A groundbreaking drama set in a South African village, which depicts a woman's (Khumalo) struggles with health, family and local superstition when…
1515 (2003)
Dir. Royston Tan
Feat. Melvin Chen, Erick Chun
Doing for the tiny island nation of Singapore what LA HAINE did for France, this box–office hit follows the misfiring antics of three teenagers…
A Heart ElsewhereA Heart Elsewhere (Il Cuore Altrove) (2003)
Dir. Pupi Avati
Feat. Giancarlo Giannini, Neri Marcore, Vanessa Incontrada
Seemingly a soft–centred drama set in 1930s Italy, this curious tale of blind love carries its own insinuating mood of melancholy. Marcore…
Anatomy of HellAnatomy of Hell (Anatomie De L'enfer) (2003)
Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Amira Casar, Rocco Siffredi
A queasily explicit sex drama about a suicidal woman who challenges (and pays) a promiscuous gay man to participate in an uneasy nightly ritual of…
ArmaanArmaan (2003)
Dir. Honey Irani
Feat. Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Gracey Singh
A hospital soap–opera, Bollywood–style, centering around a doctor and his neurosurgeon son who dream of turning a private hospital into a…
As Far as My Feet Will Carry MeAs Far as My Feet Will Carry Me (2003)
Dir. Hardy Martins
Based on the novel by Josef Martin Bauer, this film recounts the harrowing true story of Clemens Forell, the German POW who escaped a Siberian labour…
At Five in the AfternoonAt Five in the Afternoon (Panj é asr) (2003) Recommended
Dir. Samira Makhmalbaf
Feat. Agheleh Rezaie, Abdolgani Yousefrazi
Delivering perhaps her most visually poetic, yet dramatically starkest work to date, the dir. of THE APPLE and BLACKBOARDS has a father and daughter…
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