Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Lagaan (2001)
- Dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
Feat. Aamir Khan, Gracey Singh, Paul Blackthorne… - Bollywood epic that broke through to international awards and audience with its ‘test–match’ running–time, lavishness and periodic…
Laissez-Passer (Safe Conduct) (2001)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydes, Marie Gillain - A vivid and suspenseful drama set in the French film industry during the German occupation of WWII, this is a labour of love for leading French dir.…
Last Kiss, The (L'Ultimo Bacio) (2001)- Dir. Gabriel Muccino
Feat. Stefano Accorsi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefania Sandrelli - Award–winning Italian melodrama investigates the anxieties of a young unmarried couple on the verge of parenthood. Stefano Accorsi is torn…
Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Nightcap) (2001)- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert - Slyly subversive psychodrama, with Isabelle Huppert excelling as the owner of a Swiss chocolate–business, who also happens to be a…
Millennium Mambo (2001)- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Shu Qi - The first in dir. Hou’s ‘contemporary youth’ trilogy is a light–infused strobe of aimless young adults living in the accelerated urban…
Minor Mishaps (2001)- Dir. Annette K. Olesen
Feat. Jorgen Kiil, Maria Wurgler Rich, Jannie Faurschou - Emerging from the lighter end of the Dogme 95 movement, this drama reunites a father and three children after the death of their mother in a car…
Naked, The (Golasy) (2001)- Dir. Witold Swiêtnicki
- Genuine oddity, this Polish satire upon the tedium of the Soviet era, as experienced by an office full of white–collar workers, is lent a…
Night Shift (Trois Huit) (2001)- Dir. Phillippe Le Guay
Feat. Gérald Laroche, Marc Barbe - Tense French workplace drama about a mild–mannered factory employee who must cope with a vindictive and domineering co–worker. Working…
Pauline and Paulette (Pauline et Paulette) (2001)- Dir. Lieven Debrauwer
Feat. Dora van der Groen, Ann Petersen - An amusing, poignant tale of two elderly sisters and their unique relationship, portrayed by two grand old dames of Belgian theatre. After her…
Piano Teacher, The (2001)- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Annie Girardot, Benoit Magimel - Isabelle Huppert gives the bravest and possibly best performance of her career as a brittle, imbalanced music teacher in a drama that might prove too…
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