French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him Read More »
Tag Archives: 2000s
True and Tender Is the North / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 »