Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1767 Films to Buy & Rent
- Man Without a Past, The (2002)
- Dir. Aki Kaurismaki
Feat. Markku Peltola, Kati Outinen
- Another understated, double–take comedy from Finnish dir. Kaurismaki, making perhaps his most cleverly balanced work yet.
An itinerant…
- Marie-Jo and her Two Loves (2002)
- Dir. Robert Guediguian
Feat. Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Gerard Meylan
- A dreamy, perceptive romance gently steered under the Mediterranean sun by dir. Guédiguian, who again uses the vibrant setting of his native…
- Monsieur Batignole (2002)
- Dir. Gerard Jugnot
Feat. Gerard Jugnot
- An ironic comedy set in WW2 Paris, in which the titular butcher helps himself to an apartment vacated by a Jewish family who have been rounded up by…
- Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002)
- Dir. Aparna Sen
- A casual aquaintance between two passengers (one Hindu, one Muslim) on a bus journey in northern India becomes a matter of life and death when the…
- Oasis (2002)
- Dir. Chang-Dong Lee
Feat. Kyung-gu Sol, So-ri Moon
- Tough and emotionally powerful drama, highlighted by fearless performances, which charts the romance between a recent parolee and a cerebral…
- Open Hearts (Elsker dig for evigt) (2002)
- Dir. Susanne Bier
Feat. Mads Mikkelsen, Sonja Richter
- A touch edgier than recent 'Dogme 95' melodramas, this explores the consequences of a car accident on the previously steady lives of those…
- Ping Pong (2002)
- Dir. Fumisiko Sori
Feat. Yôsuke Kubozuka, Arata
- A madcap, yet gently humourous Japanese sports tale, set around two table tennis hotshots (Kubozuka and Arata) preparing for a ferocious battle at a…
- Private Property (2002)
- Dir. Joachim Lafosse
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Jeremie Renier
- Isabelle Huppert is held to emotional ransom by her two grown–up twin sons in this ‘Mexican standoff’ of family dysfunction and domestic…
- Radical Digital Cinema - Vol. 1 (Egoshooter, Half the Rent) (2002-2004)
- Dir. Christian Becker, Oliver Schwabe, Marc Ottiker
Feat. Tom Schilling, Stephan Kampwirth
- The brainchild of Wim Wenders, this digital cinema incubator provides a supportive framework for young filmmakers to push the envelope of the…
- Radical Digital Cinema - Vol. 2 (Summer Moon (aka Junimond), Fools) (2002-2003)
- Dir. Hanno Hackfort, Tom Schreiber
- The brainchild of Wim Wenders, this digital cinema incubator provides a supportive framework for young filmmakers to push the envelope of the…