1997. Young car mechanic Iván lives in a godforsaken village in eastern Hungary. He looks after his mentally disabled sister Eszter and earns extra money smuggling diesel oil from Ukraine. Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
The Fall of the Louse of Usher: A Gothic Tale for the 21st Century (2002) Ken Russell, James Johnston, Lisi Tribble, Marie Findley, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
When rock star Roddy Usher’s wife is murdered, he’s sent to the county lunatic asylum, where the therapy is far more insane than the inmates. Read More »
Pietro (2010) Daniele Gaglianone, Diego Canteri, Pietro Casella, Francesco Lattarulo, Drama
Pietro lives in an anonymous suburb. He has a job, a home and a family. His job consists in distributing leaflets on the streets. Read More »
En ville / Iris in Bloom (2011) Valérie Mréjen, Bertrand Schefer, Lola Créton, Stanislas Merhar, Adèle Haenel, Drama
Iris is 16 and finishing her teenage years in a small provincial town when she meets Jean, a 40 year old photographer from Paris. Read More »
Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart / Mozart’s Sister (2010) René Féret, Marie Féret, Marc Barbé, Delphine Chuillot, Biography, Drama, Music
Beginning in 1763, the film follows the Mozart family’s exhausting life on the road, traveling by coach from one royal court to the next Read More »
A Poet in New York (2014) Aisling Walsh, Tom Hollander, Phoebe Fox, Ewen Bremner, Biography, Drama
In 1953 poet Dylan Thomas arrives in New York with his assistant and lover Liz Reitell to embark upon a tour of poetry readings, ending up in California where he hopes to meet Stravinsky. Read More »
Park (2016) Sofia Exarchou, Dimitris Kitsos, Dimitra Vlagopoulou, Thomas Bo Larsen, Drama
Young love blossoms amongst a group of Athenian teenagers during a boisterous summertime idyll, in the raw, romantic and anarchic feature debut from Greek New Wave director Sofia Exarchou. Read More »
Hannah Arendt (2012) Margarethe von Trotta, Barbara Sukowa, Axel Milberg, Janet McTeer, Biography, Drama
In 1961, the noted German-American philosopher, Hannah Arendt, gets to report on the trial of the notorious Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann. Read More »
Between Two Fires (2010) Agnieszka Lukasiak, Magdalena Poplawska, Simon Kassianides, Kamila Nowysz, Drama, Romance, Thriller
A young mother with her daughter escapes child trafficking in their home country Belarus just to end up in a refugee camp in northern Sweden. Read More »
Trois temps après la mort d’Anna / Mourning for Anna (2010) Catherine Martin, Paule Baillargeon, Denis Bernard, Denise Gagnon, Drama
How to go on living afterwards? It is the end of winter. A young violinist is murdered in her apartment by a stranger. Read More »