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Feo Aladag – Die Fremde aka When We Leave (2010)
Quote: Umay is a young woman of Turkish descent, fighting for an independent and self-determined life in Germany against the resistance of her family. Her struggle initiates a dynamic, which results...
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Liv Ullmann – Trolösa AKA Faithless (2000)
Renowned actress-turned-director Liv Ullmann helms this bleak, nuanced film about marriage and betrayal penned by legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. The story is straightforward — Marianne Vogler...
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Dusan Makavejev – Sweet Movie (1974)
Dušan Makavejev’s anarchic 1974 comedy goes even further than his previous W.R., depicting more trangressions than the average viewer’s imagination could conjure up. From Time Out London: Potentially...
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Eric Rohmer – L’anglaise et le duc AKA The Lady and the Duke (2001)
Storyline An episodic look at Grace Elliott (1760-1823) and Philippe, the Duke of Orleans, during the French Revolution. In 1790, they are friends, no longer lovers. He suggests she leave France, she...
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Lucas Belvaux – 38 témoins AKA One Night (2012)
A brutal murder in Le Havre: 38 people must have noticed, but say they heard or saw nothing. A claustrophobic, moving, beautifully shot film with a strong cast including Yvan Attal, Sophie Quinton and...
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Eric Rohmer – Perceval le Gallois (1978)
Veteran French New Wave director Eric Rohmer’s Perceval is a unique film faithfully based on the 12th-century Arthurian poem by Chrétien de Troyes. It combines medieval music, bright colors, mime,...
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Douglas Sirk – Zu neuen Ufern AKA To New Shores (1937)
Quote: “The film is a melodrama in the high Sirk style (Leander is a cabaret singer in 1840s London who takes the rap when her lover passes a bad check and gets deported to the penal compound that was...
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Ridley Scott – Boy and Bicycle (1965)
Quote: Boy and Bicycle is the first film made by Ridley Scott. The black and white short was made on 16mm film while Scott was a photography student at the Royal College of Art in London in 1962....
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Rafaël Ouellet – Camion (2012)
From Toronto International Film Festival website : Truck driving is all sixty-year-old widower Germain (Julien Poulin) has ever known. When he is involved in a head-on collision that leaves a woman...
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Eric Rohmer – Le Beau mariage aka A Good Marriage [+Extras] (1982)
Vincent Canby @ The New York Times, August 27, 1982 wrote: Like the major characters in most of Eric Rohmer’s comedies, Sabine (Béatrice Romand), the heroine of Mr. Rohmer’s new Le Beau Mariage, seems...
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Eric Rohmer – Conte d’automne AKA Autumn Tale (1998)
Quote: One of those unsentimental films to which people become sentimentally attached. Plot: The widowed Magali may be charismatic and intelligent but her friends fear that by isolating herself she...
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Eric Rohmer – Conte d’hiver AKA A Winter’s Tale (1992)
A Winter’s Tale is the second installment in French director Eric Rohmer’s Tale of Four Seasons series. Rohmer’s intention with these films is to “focus on attractive, intelligent, self-absorbed if...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Arousi-ye Khouban AKA Marriage of the Blessed (1989)
Review by Jonathan Rosenbaum A 1989 film by Mohsen Makhmalbaf about the upsetting discoveries made by a shell-shocked veteran of the Iran-Iraq war after he returns to his job as a photojournalist in...
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Robert Bresson – Une femme douce (1969)
Quote: Bresson’s brilliant adaptation of Dostoevsky’s short story (A Gentle Creature) exhibits in its lapidary sequences the political and existential revolt of a young student in Paris. Sharing a...
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Dastforoush AKA The Peddler (1987)
The Peddler An impressive, often powerful Iranian feature (1987, 95 min.) by Mohsen Makhmalbaf—who started out as an antishah activist and fiction writer—composed of three sketches dealing with the...
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Hulki Saner – Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda AKA Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek (1973)
Wiki: Ömer the Tourist in Star Trek (Turkish: Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda) is a 1973 Turkish cult comedy science-fiction film, produced and directed by Hulki Saner, featuring Sadri Alışık as a Turkish...
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Stéphane Brizé – Je ne suis pas là pour être aimé AKA Not Here To Be Loved...
Enormously charming and affecting, “Not Here To Be Loved” tells the story of world weary Jean-Claude (Patrick Chesnais) who, tired of his thankless job as a bailiff, decides on a whim to shake himself...
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Andrew Bogle – Haunters of the Deep (1984)
“Haunters of the Deep” takes us to Cornwall with a tale of a haunted mine. The American CEO of Aminco Mining Corp. wants to re-open the tin-rich Strangles Head Mine, despite the dire warnings of old...
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Louis-Do de Lencquesaing – Au galop aka In A Rush (2012)
Ada was settled in her life, she was pleased with it, or thought she was. She was one half of a couple who seemed happy, she’d had a child, was even due to get married, and wham… she met Paul… And...
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Frederick Wiseman – Law and Order (1969)
Quote: One of the best of Wiseman’s documentaries, an impressionistic account of the daily police routine in a predominantly black neighbourhood of Kansas City, Missouri. Although violence abounds,...
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