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Tag Archives: 2000s
The Flower of Evil (2003) Claude Chabrol, Nathalie Baye, Benoît Magimel, Suzanne Flon
Anne runs for re-election to the town council, shepherded by Matthieu, her fellow candidate and campaign manager. Read More »
Looking for Miguel (2007) Juan Fischer, Luis Fernando Bohórquez, Mónica Gómez, Hernán Méndez
Miguel is a young politician who comes from a wealthy family. He has seen the world from a privileged position and made a brilliant career. Read More »
Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005) Marc Rothemund, Julia Jentsch, Fabian Hinrichs, Alexander Held
The Final Days is the true story of Germany’s most famous anti-Nazi heroine brought to life. Read More »
The Bloodiest (2005) Jean-Pierre Bekolo, Adèle Ado, Dorylia Calmel, Emile Abossolo M’bo
A futuristic film set in a dystopian Cameroonian city vaguely reminiscent of the dystopian Los Angeles in Ridley Scott’s classic BladeRunner Read More »
Oh! Man (2004) Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi, Benito Mussolini
This analytically organized compilation of archival footage is nothing less than a horror documentary. Read More »
The Baron (2011) Edgar Pêra, Marina Albuquerque, Marcos Barbosa, Vítor Correia
A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Read More »
Nightcap (2000) Claude Chabrol, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Anna Mouglalis
In Lausanne, the aspirant pianist Jeanne Pollet has lunch with her mother Louise Pollet, her boyfriend Axel and his mother. Read More »
Today and Tomorrow (2003) Alejandro Chomski, Antonella Costa, Carlos Lipsic, Romina Ricci, Drama
At 24, Paula wants to be an actress, but if she doesn’t find her rent money she’ll be homeless in 24 hours. Read More »
Nine Queens (2000) Fabián Bielinsky, Ricardo Darín, Gastón Pauls, Leticia Brédice, María Mercedes Villagra, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Early one morning, Marcos observes Juan successfully pulling off a bill-changing scam on a cashier, and then getting caught as he attempts to pull the same trick on the next shift. Read More »
In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2001) Martina Kudlácek, Miriam Arsham, Stan Brakhage, Chao Li Chi, Documentary, Biography
Using footage from filmmaker Maya Deren’s avant-garde films of the 1940s Read More »
Year by the Sea (2016) Alexander Janko, Karen Allen, Yannick Bisson, Celia Imrie, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Hoping to reclaim who she was before marriage and children, an empty nester retreats to Cape Cod where she embarks upon a quest to set herself free. Read More »
The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue (2017) Yûya Ishii, Mikako Ichikawa, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Shizuka Ishibashi, Drama
Newcomer Shizuka Ishibashi throws herself into the role of Mika, a nurse by day, a ‘girlie bar’ hostess by night, subject to feelings of anxiety and isolation Read More »
The Outside Man (1972) Jacques Deray, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Jean-Louis Trintignant plays a French contract assassin hired by a Los Angeles crime family, ostensibly to perform a hit on some other mafia target. Read More »
Brief Crossing (2001) Catherine Breillat, Sarah Pratt, Gilles Guillain, Marc Filipi, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Desire for a subject that functions like a brief fling with no future as such, yet embellished by that very fact. Read More »