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Nils Malmros – Skønheden og udyret AKA Beauty and the Beast (1983)
Quote: When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at...
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Claudia Llosa – Aloft (2014)
Quote: As we follow a mother (Jennifer Connelly) and her son (Cillian Murphy), we delve into a past marred by an accident that tears them apart. She will become a renowned artist and healer, and he...
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Fred Tan – Li gui chan shen AKA Split Of The Spirit (1987)
The ghost of a murdered woman possesses a dancer’s body in order to exact vengeance on her killer. Light Industry wrote: A rarity unearthed from Harvard’s vaults, Fred Tan’s Split of the Spirit is a...
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Clarence Brown – A Free Soul (1931)
from imdb: An alcoholic lawyer who successfully defended a notorious gambler on a murder charge objects when his free-spirited daughter becomes romantically involved with him. User comment from IMDB:...
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Marcel L’Herbier – L’argent (1928)
Quote: Adapted from Émile Zola’s novel of the same name, Marcel L’Herbier’s L’Argent [Money] is an opulent classic of late-silent era cinema. Filmed in part on location at the Paris stock exchange, it...
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Raymond Depardon – 12 jours AKA 12 Days (2017)
Quote: A young woman stares across a table at the judge who is reviewing her case. Her gaze is both searingly intense and curiously blank. Holding herself preternaturally still, muscles tensed against...
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Pierre Rissient – Alibis AKA One Night Stand (1977)
Quote: Richard Jordan plays Paul, a disillusioned American in search of the meaning of life. After his ex-wife attempts suicide, Paul retreats to Hong Kong. Here he tries to assuage his angst by...
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Serge Bard – Détruisez-vous AKA Destroy Yourselves (1969)
Synopsis: The first Zanzibar film, Détruisez-vous takes its title from an oft-repeated ’68 slogan (“Aidez-nous, détruisez-vous”) and its lead from Godard’s La Chinoise, Warhol’s Factory, and the...
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Daniel Pommereulle – Vite (1969)
In 1969, the painter-sculptor Daniel Pommereulle made his third film, this one financed by Sylvina Boissonnas. Although only a short, Vite was one of the most costly of all the Zanzibar productions....
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Paolo Genovese – The Place (2017)
Synopsis: The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must...
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Ömer Kavur – Gizli yüz aka The Secret Face (1991)
Turkish filmmaker Ömer Kavur was born in Ankara, in 1944. After studying journalism and sociology at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, he went on to study film at the...
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Maurice Pialat – Police (1985)
Quote: A moody, jaded police detective, while investigating a drug ring, falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into a shady and dangerous scheme. Quote: In a contest for unfussy opening credits,...
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Júlio Bressane – Cara a Cara (1967)
The story of a civil servant who lives with his elderly mother. Falling in love with a corrupt politician’s young and rich daughter, he abandons himself to crazy and violent situations....
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Abbas Kiarostami – Zendegi va digar hich AKA Life, and Nothing More… (1992)
زندگی و دیگر هیچ A director and his son return to a region damaged by the Guilan earthquake, hoping to find the children who appeared in his film a few years earlier. Acquarello wrote: On a chaotic...
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Philippe Grandrieux – Unrest (2017)
Unrest is the final part of a multidisciplinary trilogy (performances, films, installations) with the central theme of worry. The bodies of dancers Nathalie Remadi and Lilas Nagoya reconnects with the...
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Nikita Mikhalkov – Svoy sredi chuzhikh, chuzhoy sredi svoikh AKA At Home...
Quote: An unenviable lot fell to the Red Army soldier Shilov: he is being suspected of stealing gold. In the hungry 1920s, the young Soviet Republic’s government searches for gold all over the...
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Frédéric Pardo – Home Movie, autour du ‘Lit de la vierge’ (1968)
Synopsis: Between 1968 and 1970, Sylvina Boissonnas, a young French heiress and patroness of the arts, financed the production of some fifteen films that would prove highly influential while remaining...
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Toby Fell-Holden – Balcony (2015)
In a neighborhood rife with racial tension, a local girl falls for a recent immigrant who is the victim of prejudice and shame. “Emulsa of IMW London” wrote: Balcony, the Iris Prize Winner of the...
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Agnès Varda – L’opéra-mouffe AKA Diary of a Pregnant Woman (1958)
Synopsis A pregnant filmmaker takes us to rue Mouffetard, “la Mouffe,” in the Latin Quarter of Paris for a mix of documentary footage and imagined scenes. Vignettes or chapters unfold – on the feeling...
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Merzak Allouache – Bab El-Oued City (1994)
Young Boualem just wants a little quiet, a little space to be himself and follow his desires. He works six nights a week at a French bakery in the impoverished section of Algiers known as Bab el-Oued,...
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