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Boris Lehman – Magnum Begynasium Bruxellense (1978)
Quote:A living chronicle of the residents of Béguinage neighbourhood – so named because it is situated on the site of…
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Fernando Ayala – Los Tallos Amargos AKA The Bitter Stems (1956)
A washed up reporter teams up with an immigrant from Hungary to start a fake journalism by correspondence school. Letterboxd…
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Keisuke Kinoshita – Ojôsan kanpai AKA Here’s to the Young Lady AKA Here’s to the Girls (1949)
Quote:Sentimental egalitarianism in a love story that crosses class barriers. A lower-class entrepreneur on his way up is proposed a…
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Vicente Aranda & Román Gubern – Brillante porvenir (1965)
SynopsisAntonio, a young man with a modest job in a small town, lives a monotonous existence until he is transferred…
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Michel Deville – La maladie de Sachs AKA Sachs’ Disease (1999)
Quote:This absorbing and intimate portrait of an ordinary town doctor is characteristic of Michel Deville’s cinema: sombre, slow moving, filled…
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Julien Duvivier – Le petit roi aka The Little King (1933)
The young monarch of a kingdom situated in eastern Europe is sent to France because of his poor health status.…
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Ishirô Honda – Matango AKA Attack of the Mushroom People (1963)
Quote:Five vacationers and two crewmen become stranded on a tropical island near the equator. The island has little edible food…
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James Benning – Four Corners (1998)
Quote:I’ve been brooding a lot lately about the way in which many of the best movies around have been ravaged…
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Giuseppe Fina – Pelle viva (1962)
The story of Rosaria, a woman from Apulia, who works in Milan and returns to her village each Saturday to…
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