French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
Royal Bonbon (2002) Charles Najman, Dominic Batraville, Verlus Delorme, Erol Josué
A destitute man wanders the streets of Cap Haïtien, dreaming about his imaginary kingdom. Read More »
True and Tender Is the North AKA A Corte do Norte (2008) João Botelho, Ana Moreira, Ricardo Aibéo, Rogério Samora
A young woman seeks to unearth the truth about a distant ancestor in director João Botelho’s adaptation Read More »
Tigers Are Not Afraid AKA Vuelven (2017) Issa López, Paola Lara, Juan Ramón López, Nery Arredondo
Estrella is 10 years old and has 3 wishes: The first one, that her missing mother comes back and it happens. Read More »
The Bomber AKA Sprängaren (2001) Colin Nutley, Helena Bergström, Pernilla August, Reine Brynolfsson
The Victoria stadium is totally destroyed in a bomb attack and Christina Furhage Read More »
Going Away AKA Un beau dimanche (2013) Nicole Garcia, Pierre Rochefort, Louise Bourgoin, Dominique Sanda
Baptiste is a solitary type. A teacher in southern France, he never stays more Read More »
They Say Nothing Stays the Same AKA Aru sendo no hanashi (2019) Joe Odagiri, Akira Emoto, Ririka Kawashima, Nijirô Murakami
Why does one need a ferryman? One needs a ferryman where there is a body Read More »
Aniceto (2008) Leonardo Favio, Hernán Piquín, Natalia Pelayo, Alejandra Baldoni
Aniceto is a lonely man who lives with his rooster in a little town in Mendoza. Read More »
Mamay (2003) Oles Sanin, Viktoria Spesivtseva, Andrij Bilous, Nazl Sejtablaeva
Mamay draws on traditional Ukrainian and Tatar folktales for its Romeo and Juliet Read More »
Wild Innocence AKA Sauvage innocence (2001) Philippe Garrel, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Julia Faure, Michel Subor
A movie director does a new film against heroine consumption, and the producers are heroine dealers. Read More »
Omagh (2004) Pete Travis, Gerard McSorley, Michèle Forbes, Brenda Fricker
15 August 1998: the Real IRA exploded a bomb on a crowded street in Omagh Read More »
Secondhand Lions (2003) Tim McCanlies, Haley Joel Osment, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall
A boy named Walter is dropped by his mother Mae at his great-uncles’ house. Read More »
The Consul of Bordeaux AKA O Cônsul de Bordéus (2011) João Correa, Francisco Manso, Vítor Norte, Carlos Paulo, João Nunes Monteiro
This is the story of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, a man who issued 30,000 visas Read More »
Memories of My Body AKA Kucumbu tubuh indahku (2018) Garin Nugroho, Muhammad Khan, Raditya Evandra, Rianto
In Center Java Juno, a pre-teen abandoned by his father, joins a Lengger dance centre Read More »
Paradise AKA Illusion Infinity (2004) Roger Steinmann, Dee Wallace, Timothy Bottoms, Barbara Carrera
Biopic about former Las Vegas singer Patricia Paradise and her search for Shangri-La. Read More »