Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
The Future AKA Il Futuro (2013) Alicia Scherson, Manuela Martelli, Luigi Ciardo, Rutger Hauer
When their parents die, Bianca starts to smoke and Tomas is still a virgin. Read More »
A Hard Day AKA Kkeut-kka-ji-gan-da (2014) Seong-hun Kim, Sun-kyun Lee, Jin-woong Cho, Man-sik Jeong
Detective Go Geon-soo is having a hard day Read More »
At Ellen’s Age AKA Im Alter von Ellen (2010) Pia Marais, Jeanne Balibar, Stefan Stern, Georg Friedrich
A woman puts herself through some remarkable changes in this drama from director Pia Marais. Read More »
The Border Fence AKA Die bauliche Maßnahme (2018) Nikolaus Geyrhalter
In concentric circles starting from the border of the Brenner Pass between Austria and Italy Read More »
Sleep Furiously (2008) Gideon Koppel
Set in a small farming community in mid Wales, a place where Koppel’s parents – both refugees – found a home. Read More »
Mekong Hotel (2012) Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a film-maker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampiric mother and daughter. Read More »
Vegas: Based on a True Story (2008) Amir Naderi, Mark Greenfield, Alexis Hart, Nancy La Scala
The film takes place away from the glittering strip of mega casinos, but the greed of Sin City is just as pervasive on the desert outskirts. Read More »
Avida (2006) Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern, Anselme, Fernando Arrabal, Anne Benett
The kidnapping of a plump billionaire’s dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. Read More »
Platform AKA Zhantai (2000) Zhangke Jia, Hongwei Wang, Tao Zhao, Jing Dong Liang
Set in Fenyang, Shanxi Province, the film focuses on a group of amateur theatre troupe performers Read More »
All the Light in the Sky (2012) Joe Swanberg, Jane Adams, Sophia Takal, Kent Osborne
Jane Adams is an actress living in a house precariously perched above the beach in Malibu. Read More »
Feathers in the Wind AKA Git (2004) Il-gon Song, Hyeong-seong Jang, Yong-cheol Kim, So-yeon Lee
Hyeon-seong, a film director struggling with writing a new screenplay, visits a remote southern island Read More »
September (2013) Penny Panagiotopoulou, Kora Karvouni, Maria Skoula, Nikos Diamandis
Anna lives with her dog Manu. She thinks they will live together forever. Read More »
Life During Wartime (2009) Todd Solondz, Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy
Separated from her incarcerated husband Bill (Hinds), Trish (Janney) is about to be married again. Read More »
Solo (2013) Marcelo Briem Stamm, Patricio Ramos, Mario Verón, Carlos Echevarría
A sexy, romantic and uncomfortably chilling tale of love and deception from first time director Marcelo Briem Stamm. Read More »