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Marguerite Duras – India Song (1975)
Quote: Poetical tale of Anne-Marie Stretter, the wife of a French diplomat in India in the 1930s. At 18 she…
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Benoît Jacquot & Marguerite Duras – La mort du jeune aviateur anglais AKA The Death of the Young English Aviator (1993)
La mort du jeune aviateur anglais tells the story of a British airman whose grave Marguerite Duras discovered near Deauville.…
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Frédéric Choffat & Julie Gilbert – Mangrove (2011)
Quote: A young woman travels with her child to a remote coast on the Pacific in southern Mexico where she…
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Lav Diaz – Elehiya sa dumalaw mula sa himagsikan AKA Elegy to the Visitor from the Revolution (2011)
Like Prologue to the Great Desparecido, Elegy finds Diaz looking back to the Filipino Revolution of the last years of…
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Zeki Demirkubuz – Kor AKA Ember (2016)
When her husband Cemal is arrested in Romania, Emine is left alone with their child who needs immediate surgery. She…
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Jane Campion – An Exercise in Discipline – Peel (1982)
Review (Geraldine Bloustien, ‘Jane Campion: memory, motif and music’. Continuum) Peel explores the dynamics of family relationships and the way…
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Travis Wilkerson – An Injury to One (2002)
AN INJURY TO ONE provides a corrective—and absolutely compelling—glimpse of a particularly volatile moment in early 20th century American labor…
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Senem Tüzen – Ana Yurdu (2015)
Nesrin, an urban upper-middle class woman, goes back to her parents’ old village in Anatolia to finish a novel and…
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Kidlat Tahimik – Mababangong bangungot aka Perfumed Nightmare (1977)
Quote:Upon first glance, Perfumed Nightmare looks amateurish and raw. It is, too, I suppose, but this works to the film’s…
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