After years of suppressing her desires, Stella finds she can no longer ignore her deep-rooted longings. Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
9 Mois Ferme AKA 9-Month Stretch (2013) Albert Dupontel, Sandrine Kiberlain, Nicolas Marié
Ariane Felder is pregnant. This is all the more surprising since this examining magistrate is an old-fashioned single person. Read More »
Take a Girl Like You (2000) Nick Hurran, Sienna Guillory, Rupert Graves, Robert Daws
The novel opens with Jenny Bunn’s arrival at her lodging-house. Read More »
Mon-seu-teo AKA Monster (2014) In-ho Hwang, Min-ki Lee, Go-eun Kim, Seo-Hyeon Ahn
Bok-Soon (KIM Go-Eun) runs a street stall while taking care of her younger sister. Read More »
Yawarakai seikatsu AKA It’s Only Talk (2005) Ryuichi Hiroki, Shinobu Terajima, Etsushi Toyokawa, Akira Emoto
Yuko is 35 years old, single, out of work, and on medication from her psychiatrist to combat her manic depression. Read More »
Take Out (2004) Sean Baker, Shih-Ching Tsou, Charles Jang, Jeng-Hua Yu, Wang-Thye Lee
An illegal Chinese immigrant falls behind on payments on an enormous smuggling debt. Read More »
Zan AKA Killing (2018) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Yû Aoi, Sôsuke Ikematsu
Set during the tumultuous mid-19th century Edo period of Japan Read More »
Nobi AKA Fires on the Plain (2014) Shin’ya Tsukamoto, Lily Franky, Tatsuya Nakamura
A Japanese soldier endures illness, starvation and brutality in the Philippines at the tail end of WW2. Read More »
L’uomo in più AKA One Man Up (2001) Paolo Sorrentino, Toni Servillo, Andrea Renzi, Antonino Bruschetta
The debut feature by acclaimed Italian director Paolo Sorrentino (Il Divo) is a stylish and blackly comic look at the dark side of fame. Read More »
Les jours où je n’existe pas AKA The Days When I Do Not Exist (2002) Jean-Charles Fitoussi, Antoine Chappey, Clémentine Baert, Luís Miguel Cintra
A story that mixes fantasy, philosophy and everyday reality. Read More »
Bettie Page Reveals All (2012) Mark Mori, Bettie Page, Hugh M. Hefner, Olivia de Berardinis
With a natural photogenic poise and a vivaciously innocent risqué flair, there never was a pinup model like Bettie Page. Read More »
O futebol AKA On Football (2015) Sergio Oksman
Sergio and his father, Simão, haven’t seen each other for over 20 years. Read More »
La calle de la amargura AKA Bleak Street (2015) Arturo Ripstein, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Nora Velázquez, Silvia Pasquel
In the early morning hours, two elderly whores go back to their hovels. Read More »
Koma (2009) Naomi Kawase
A Japanese-Korean man (Kitamura Kizuki) travels to a village in Nara to fulfill his late grandfather’s final wish. Read More »
An Investigation on the Night That Won’t Forget (2012) Lav Diaz, Hazel Orencio, Erwin Romulo
Erwin Romulo, the best friend of the late film critic Alexis Tioseco, recalls the events after the critic Read More »