Bizet’s Carmen gets a modern adaptation. Seducting, provocating, sensual. All the ingredients for a perfect drama. With her charm, Karmen gets out of many situations. Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
Camel(s) AKA Nakta(dul) (2001) Ki-yong Park, Dae-yeon Lee, Myung-shin Park
An unremarkable man in his forties and a female acquaintance. They talk, eat, and though both are married elsewhere, have sex. Read More »
Lent AKA Quaresma (2003) José Álvaro Morais, Beatriz Batarda, Filipe Cary, Rita Durão, Ricardo Aibéo
David is married, has a daughter, and is about to leave Portugal with his family. Read More »
Butter on the Latch (2013) Josephine Decker, Isolde Chae-Lawrence, Emily Decker, Stephan Goldbach
At a Balkan folk song and dance camp in the woods of Mendocino, California Read More »
Family Ties AKA Gajokeui tansaeng (2006) Tae-yong Kim, Tae-gyu Bong, Tae-woong Eom, Gyu-pil Go
Mira is a shy, single woman who runs a small restaurant and tends her plants with love and care. Read More »
Death of a Salesman (2000) Kirk Browning, Brian Dennehy, Elizabeth Franz, Ron Eldard
An aging salesman is fired from his job after a long career in it. Broken, without much to look forward to Read More »
By the Pricking of My Thumbs AKA Mon petit doigt m’a dit… (2005) Pascal Thomas, Catherine Frot, André Dussollier, Geneviève Bujold
Prudence and Belisaire are what can be called an eccentric couple. How can you bear such impossible Christian (?) names in the first place? Read More »
American Swing (2008) Jon Hart, Mathew Kaufman, Bryce Britton, Irwin Corey, William Davidson
The parallel stories of Plato’s Retreat, a Manhattan sex club for straight couples that operated from 1977 until the mid 1980s Read More »
Encirclements AKA Hakafot (2014) Lee Gilat, Lior Ashkenazi, Assi Levy, Agam Ozalvo
When thirteen year old Aharon,is selected for the great honor of carrying the big Torah book Read More »
A Sun AKA Yang guang pu zhao (2019) Mong-Hong Chung, Chien-Ho Wu, Yi-wen Chen, Samantha Shu-Chin Ko
A Sun follows a troubled family of four. A-Ho, the younger son, has always been a problematic child Read More »