Critics' Choice
Overzicht van films
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Teenage Hooker Became Killing Machine in DaeHakRoh
Nam Ki-Woong | 60' | South Korea | -
Grungy, musical, visually stormy low-budget film from Korea crosses the ‘rape revenge’ film with Robocop. Critic’s Choice of Adrian Martin (Senses of -
Terminus Paradis
Lucian Pintilie | 108' | France | -
Strangulating and dispirited life in Rumania turns out not to have improved much since Ceausescu. An alcoholic flirt will take on the proportions of a -
The Thaw
Valery Todorovsky | 127' | Russia | None
A Russian Mad Men? Isn’t that as contradictory as it gets? From the New York advertising world of the 60s to the Moscow film industry… -
Tokyo X Erotica
Zeze Takahisa | 77' | Japan | -
One great discharge: this film keeps on coming, just like its wild, wonderfully shamelessly fucking protagonists, attractively flexible thanks to thei -
Vacas
Julio Medem | 96' | Spain | -
Fascinating debut which looks wonderful and is rich in motives. A film about the magic of the Basque countryside, where a permanent threat colours all… -
Vanya on 42nd Street
Louis Malle | 119' | USA | -
Cineaste Louis Malle and stage director André Gregory interpret Chekhov’s famous play ‘Uncle Vanya’. Chosen by Hans Kroon, Trouw. -
Il verificatore
Stefano Incerti | 78' | Italy | -
Sheepish meter reader in Naples takes revenge on the man who raped the woman he desired. Chosen by Peter van Beuren (Volkskrant). -
La vie nouvelle
Philippe Grandrieux | 102' | France | -
A young man’s obsession for a prostitute takes him into a perverse underworld. Again a dark and alarming film by the maker of Sombre. Threat… -
Les Voleurs
André Téchiné | 116' | France | -
Crime film by the great actor’s director Téchiné with star duo Catherine Deneuve/Daniel Auteuil. Critic’s Choice by Ab van Ieperen, Vrij Nederland. -
Voyages
Emmanuel Finkiel | 115' | France | -
Old Jews as fictional travellers, that carry something with them that is deeper and more complex than the visible wounds of the Nazi atrocities. This -
A Week in the Life of a Man
Jerzy Stuhr | 89' | Poland | -
A week in the life of Adam Borowski, a successful prosecutor with the Polish court. We get to know him better, not necessarily as a… -
When Marnie Was There
Yonebayashi Hiromasa | 103' | Japan | None
Ghibli in Japan was perhaps the best animation studio in the world, but work at the studio stopped last year. Temporarily, we hope. If not,…