Middle aged Jakob Beer reflects on his life, this reflection which is all consuming. Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
A Mirror to Life AKA Le reflet de la vie (2007) Eliane de Latour
This film participants, whose social origins are highly diverse, are all over 85 years old. They live alone, or almost so. Read More »
Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims AKA Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san (2005) Kankurô Kudô, Tomoya Nagase, Shichinosuke Nakamura, Sadao Abe
A re-imagining of the classic Japanese comedy “Yaji and Kita’s Travel Journey”, this is the story of two samurai in Edo period Japan who are in love. Read More »
The Center of the World (2001) Wayne Wang, Shane Edelman, Balthazar Getty, Molly Parker
A couple checks into a suite in Las Vegas. In flashbacks we see that he’s a computer whiz Read More »
Spider Forest AKA Geomi sup (2004) Il-gon Song, Woo-seong Kam, Jung Suh, Kyung-hun Kang
A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods. Read More »
Rocaterrania (2009) Brett Ingram
A journey into the secret world of 76-year-old Renaldo Kuhler, a scientific illustrator who invented an imaginary country to survive his disaffected youth. Read More »
Being Italian with Signora Enrica AKA Sinyora Enrica ile Italyan Olmak (2010) Ali Ilhan, Claudia Cardinale, Ismail Hacioglu, Lavinia Longhi
Claudia Cardinale playing as an elderly Italian woman who takes in a young Turkish exchange student. Read More »
The Kindergarten Teacher AKA Haganenet (2014) Nadav Lapid, Sarit Larry, Avi Shnaidman, Lior Raz, Jil Ben David
A kindergarten teacher discovers in a five year-old child a prodigious gift for poetry. Read More »
With a Friend Like Harry… AKA Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien (2000) Dominik Moll, Laurent Lucas, Sergi López, Mathilde Seigner
Michel, his wife Claire and their three little daughters Jeanne, Sarah and Iris are traveling to their cottage in Switzerland to spend summer vacation. Read More »
Fuse AKA Gori Vatra (2003) Pjer Zalica, Enis Beslagic, Bogdan Diklic, Sasa Petrovic
In the Bosnian town of Tesanj, not long after the Balkan war, land mines claim victims, corruption is rampant Read More »