Overview of articles
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La niña santa
Sensual and slightly wayward masterpiece in which blushing Catholic girl Amalia thinks she has found her vocation after being sexually intimidated byPublished on: -
Bolivia
Homesickness and xenophobia in Buenos Aires. Neo-realistic and melancholy drama about an illegal Bolivian immigrant who finds a job as a chef in a griPublished on: -
Delbaran
Delbaran is an almost deserted Iranian village near the Afghan border, where the desert is inhabited by truckers, Afghan resistance fighters, and a fePublished on: -
De la calle
Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have mPublished on: -
L’autre monde
First film that Allouache has been able to make in Algeria since Bab El-Oued City. Modern French-Algerian woman goes looking for her fiancé who has…Published on: -
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
A young widow who lives with her teenage son fills her empty life with an endless checklist of chores. Until something snaps.Published on: -
Snow Canon
Teenage girl and her babysitter engage in intriguing game of rejection and seduction. Great camera work and ditto acting in film by Tiger Award winnerPublished on: -
O império do desejo
Wild road trip/sex romp was criticised as ‘pornographic spectacle’ but has later been hailed as one of the great Brazilian films.Published on: -
Histoire de mes cheveux
Artists and filmmakers can be unusual people. Of those unusual people, Boris Lehman is very unusual indeed. He has unusual obsessions, for instance wiPublished on: -
Luma nocturna
Luma nocturna uses overlapping dissolves of hand-drawn images to capture the luminescent magic of light strewn across the black city at night, from thPublished on: