After childhood abuse by her step-father and eight years in a juvenile psychiatric lockup, Amanda Lear is released. Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
Fanciful AKA Piate: Nie odchodz (2014) Katarzyna Jungowska, Michalina Olszanska, Lukasz Simlat, Grazyna Szapolowska
After her mother’s death 15-year-old Roma falls ill with a strange disease. Read More »
A Tale of a Naughty Girl AKA Mondo Meyer Upakhyan (2002) Buddhadev Dasgupta, Samata Das, Rituparna Sengupta, Arpan Basar
Based on a short story by Bengali writer Prafulla Roy, the central idea developed by director Dasgupta Read More »
A Bride for Rip Van Winkle AKA Rippu Van Winkuru no hanayome (2016) Shunji Iwai, Haru Kuroki, Cocco, Gô Ayano
Nanami is an apathetic, part-time junior high school teacher, whose only solace comes from connecting Read More »
Thou Wast Mild and Lovely (2014) Josephine Decker, Joe Swanberg, Sophie Traub, Robert Longstreet
There are places you go, where the things you do will matter to a lot of people. Read More »
Dalecarlians AKA Masjävlar (2004) Maria Blom, Sofia Helin, Kajsa Ernst, Ann Petrén
Mia, who’s living in Stockholm, comes home to her small childhood town to celebrate her father’s birthday. Read More »
Fake Blond AKA Falsa Loura (2007) Carlos Reichenbach, Rosanne Mulholland, Cauã Reymond, Maurício Mattar
Silmara, an industrial worker and a woman of exuberant beauty, supports her arsonist father Read More »
The Millennial Rapture AKA Sennen no yuraku (2012) Kôji Wakamatsu, Tomori Abe, Tanroh Ishida, Arata Iura
Shingu, a coastal village in Wakayama Prefecture, early 20th century. Midwife Oryu (Terajima Shinobu) Read More »
Sacrament (2014) Shawn Ewert, Avery Pfeiffer, Troy Ford, Brittany Badali
Leaving the city behind for a weekend of booze, bud and bonding at the coast Read More »
Hustawka (2010) Tomasz Lewkowicz, Wojciech Zielinski, Joanna Orleanska, Karolina Gorczyca
35-year-old Michal (Wojciech Zielinski) has a beautiful wife, Anna (Joanna of Orleans) and daughter Justine. Read More »
Fifteen Stitches for the Soul AKA Quinze Pontos na Alma (2011) Vicente Alves do Ó, Rita Loureiro, João Reis, Marcello Urgeghe
On a day like many others, a woman leaves work. She’s late for a party, in the outskirts of Lisbon. Read More »
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly AKA Le scaphandre et le papillon (2007) Julian Schnabel, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Marie-Josée Croze
Forty-three year old Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby – Jean-Do to his friends – awakens not knowing where he is. Read More »
Ritual AKA Shiki-Jitsu (2000) Hideaki Anno, Shunji Iwai, Ayako Fujitani, Jun Murakami
A disillusioned filmmaker has an encounter with a young girl who has a ritual of repeating “Tomorrow is my birthday” everyday. Read More »
Sound of My Voice (2011) Zal Batmanglij, Christopher Denham, Nicole Vicius, Brit Marling
Two documentary filmmakers attempt to penetrate a cult who worships a woman who claims to be from the future. Read More »
Home Care AKA Domácí péce (2015) Slávek Horák, Martin Chamer, Jan Gogola Sr.
Everyone knows about the finality of human existence but the realization of life’s actual limits Read More »