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Signori Giurati
Beautiful, coloured-in, silent film with grand melodramatic gestures. A woman out for money misleads a doctor and a marquis so she can set up her…Published on: -
Boatman
Disconcerting portrait of ambitious newcomer in the world of sweaty sex shows, who seems to want to do anything to get success. A variation on…Published on: -
Something Like Happiness
Three friends, now grown up, wrestle with loneliness, desires and failures in an internationally award-winning and moving drama. Something like HappinPublished on: -
Sud Express
A heartwarming mosaic about the quest for love in today’s Europe, where immigration and loss of traditional social structures for many people lead toPublished on: -
Nuit noire, 17 octobre 1961
Meticulous, imposing and moving feature reconstruction of an event that is not well-known enough: on the October evening in question, a peaceful demonPublished on: -
Les amants réguliers
With the son of the maker playing the leading role, the mythical month of May 1968 is invoked as if it happened yesterday. Everything is…Published on: -
Reflections
Debut film by Taiwanese talent, Yao Hung-i, the former assistant director to Hou Hsiao-hsien. That the influence of the great teacher is recognisablePublished on: -
Dead Man’s Bluff
Gangster film shows a caricature of the situation in Russia during the 1990s, when the Mafia blossomed and created its own culture (bling avant la…Published on: -
Wrong Side Up
Bittersweet and of course eccentric comedy by the maker of Knoflíkari (VPRO Tiger Award winner in 1999), about ordinary people, looking for love, somePublished on: -
Three Times
Three love stories in three different eras (1966, 1911 and 2005) in Hou’s characteristic, philosophical and aesthetic style. The different couples arePublished on: