David is a drug dealer who pays a final visit to his ex-wife Nicole before leaving town with his new girlfriend. Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
La sagrada familia / The Sacred Family (2005) Sebastián Lelio, Patricia López, Néstor Cantillana, Sergio Hernández
It’s Easter in the beach house of a Chilean well-to-do and nowadays family. Read More »
The Beat That My Heart Skipped / De battre mon coeur s’est arrêté (2005) Jacques Audiard, Romain Duris, Niels Arestrup, Jonathan Zaccaï, Gilles Cohen
Will Thomas still lead a life of crime and cruelty, just like his thuggish father, or will he pursue his dream of becoming a pianist? Read More »
Distant (2002) Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Muzaffer Özdemir, Mehmet Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer
Mahmut, a 40 year old independent photographer, is a “village boy made good” at least professionally Read More »
Bright Star (2009) Jane Campion, Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider
It’s 1818 in Hampstead Village on the outskirts of London. Read More »
The Life of Reilly (2006) Frank L. Anderson, Barry Poltermann, Charles Nelson Reilly
If, in 1940, you had a lobotomized aunt, an institutionalized father, a racist mother, and were the only gay kid on the block Read More »
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006) Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk, Pakak Innuksuk, Leah Angutimarik, Neeve Irngaut
The last great shaman of the Inuit Avva and his beautiful and headstrong daughter Apak Read More »
The Lighthouse / Mayak (2006) Mariya Saakyan, Anna Kapaleva, Olga Yakovleva, Sos Sargsyan
In the 90s, Lena returns to the home of her grandparents in a tiny, war-torn village in Armenia. Read More »
The Winter Warrior (2003) Robbie Moffat, James Watson, Victoria Pritchard, Jon-Paul Gates
In the autumn of 573 AD, the civil war that divides the Celtic nations Read More »
Raising Victor Vargas (2002) Peter Sollett, Victor Rasuk, Donna Maldonado, Kevin Rivera
Victor is growing up on the Lower East Side and is at the age where Read More »