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Claude Autant-Lara – Le Bois des Amants AKA Between Love and Duty (1960)
SynopsisBrittany, Christmas 1943. Herta von Stauffen, a German soldier, makes an attempt to join her husband, Colonel von Stauffen, whom…
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Ramzi Bashour – The Trees (2021)
Bashir attends his father’s funeral in rural Lebanon only to discover a pathogen infecting the trees in his village. A…
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Igor Kolovsky – Khatyn, 5km (1968)
Quote:A documentary about the Khatyn massacre.—Another example of Adamovich’s struggle against official war memory is a documentary film for which…
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Christian François – Sanguines (1988)
A new gardener arrives at the superb property of a French cultural attaché in Portugal. This frail young man does…
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Jean Rouch – Moro Naba (1958)
Funeral rituals for the traditional leader Moro Naba of the Mossi at Ougadougou, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso). Election ceremonies…
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Jean Renoir – La fille de l’eau AKA The Whirlpool of Fate (1925)
An orphan (Catherine Hessling) escapes from her cruel uncle and finds refuge with a landowner’s son, but her happiness is…
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Howard Brookner – Burroughs: The Movie (1983)
Quote:Burroughs: The Movie explores the life and times of controversial Naked Lunch author William S. Burroughs, with an intimacy never…
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Fridrikh Ermler – Dom v sugrobakh AKA The House in the Snowdrift (1927)
synopsis, autro-transl.: Petrograd. 1919. An unemployed musician, trying to help his sick wife, steals wood from a neighbor – a…
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Todd Field – Tár (2022)
One of the most controversial and talked-about films of last year, receiving mostly praise from critics and audiences alike, but…
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