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Tag Archives: 2000s
Nowhere in Moravia (2014) Miroslav Krobot, Tatiana Vilhelmová, Lenka Krobotová, Johana Tesarová
When she’s not serving regulars in a pub in a sleepy northern Moravian village, thirtysomething Maruna spends time with indecisive mayor Jura Read More »
Mercy (2000) Damian Harris, Ellen Barkin, Wendy Crewson, Peta Wilson
Homicide detective Catherine Palmer investigates a series of serial killings of women who have been tortured to death by S&M, all of whom have had their eyelids cut off. Read More »
Intimate Strangers (2004) Patrice Leconte, Sandrine Bonnaire, Fabrice Luchini, Michel Duchaussoy
Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Read More »
98 Octane (2006) Fernando Lopes, Rogério Samora, Carla Chambel, Márcia Breia, Fernando Heitor
He doesn’t know her, she doesn’t know him, but somewhere on the highway between Lisbon and Porto, he stops to rest and there she is: as lost as he is. Read More »
The Ditch (2010) Bing Wang, Ye Lu, Renjun Lian, Cenzi Xu
It recounts the harrowing story of life at one of Mao’s camps, at the end of the fifties, where ‘rightists’ were sent to be ‘re-educated through labor’. Read More »
The Inugamis (2006) Kon Ichikawa, Kôji Ishizaka, Nanako Matsushima, Kikunosuke Onoe
A web of deceit, adultery and greed manifests in Kon Ichikawa’s remake of his own 1976 hit about a murder investigation that reveals years of hidden skeletons and a shocking family secret. Read More »
Reconversion (2012) Thom Andersen
Reconversion portrays seventeen buildings and projects by Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto Moura, accompanied by his own writings. Read More »
In July (2000) Fatih Akin, Moritz Bleibtreu, Christiane Paul, Mehmet Kurtulus
Daniel is a young teacher in-spe, who in contrast to everyone else plans to stay in Hamburg for the summer. Read More »
The Edge of Heaven (2007) Fatih Akin, Baki Davrak, Gürsoy Gemec, Cengiz Daner
Nejat seems disapproving about his widower father Ali’s choice of prostitute Yeter for a live-in girlfriend. Read More »