Kings & Aces
Overview of films
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The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes
Incomparably designed combination of animation and live action tells the bizarre story of the opera singer Malvina, who is killed and brought back to
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La lunga ombra
A psychological drama as political pamphlet. Very beautifully photographed. A beautiful Italian villa. A couple of very experienced actresses. Togethe
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Die Vogelpredigt oder Das Schreien der Mönche
The films of Clemens Klopfenstein have been screened in Rotterdam for decades: often with the regular actors duo Hofer and Rüdlinger, now looking for
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Passato presente, angeli laici cadono
Personal, and urgent film in which the maker allows images from the past two melts with those of the present. Are present in which there is worry abou
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Dein Herz in meinem Hirn
Oppressive Kammerspiel about the man who tries to cheer up his depressive friend with sadomasochistic role-play. Then they decide to play out the true
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Let There Be Whistleblowers
Beautiful and sparing percussion by Reich. Beautiful and sparing images of trains by Jacobs. Two great masters in a small film.
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Mary
Abel Ferrara’s answer to Mel Gibson is a contemporary Bible story in which the paths cross of a director who is playing Jesus in his own film (Matthew
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Full or Empty
Iran is not the country for idiosyncratic ambitions. But that doesn’t get rid of the ambitions: the energetic young protagonist wants to teach in rain
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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 let
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Three Times
Three love stories in three different eras (1966, 1911 and 2005) in Hou’s characteristic, philosophical and aesthetic style. The different couples are
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Magic Mirror
A film that is shot on parchment, as it were. A classic in the most complete sense of the word. A rich woman wants to see the Virgin Mary in a vision.
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Tentatives de se décrire
A filmer reveals his all. Literally and metaphorically. Between exhibitionism and philosophical diary Lehman makes films that can only be compared wit