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Shôhei Imamura – Karayuki-san AKA The Making of a Prostitute (1975)
Quote: A film about another kind of “unreturned soldier” than Shohei Imamura has profiled elsewhere, KARAYUKI-SAN finds the filmmaker traveling…
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Lucile Hadzihalilovic – Évolution aka Evolution (2015)
The only residents of young Nicholas’s seaside town are women and boys. When he sees a dead body in the…
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Vitali Kanevsky – Samostoyatelnaya zhizn aka An Independent Life (1992)
on the road again… This is the second instalment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director’s life.…
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Emin Alper – Abluka AKA Frenzy (2015)
SYNOPSIS/PLOT: Amid the intense political violence of Istanbul, Kadir is released on parole two years early on the condition that…
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Ciro Guerra – El abrazo de la serpiente AKA Embrace of the Serpent (2015)
Quote: “You are nothing but a white!” So shouts indigenous Amazonian shaman Karamakate (Nilbio Torres) to the seemingly on-the-level but…
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Risto Jarva – Työmiehen päiväkirja aka The Diary of a Worker (1967)
Following passages selectively translated from Risto Jarva Society’s website: Risto Jarva was a central director in the Finnish New Wave.…
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Flora Gomes – Po di Sangui aka l’arbre aux armes AKA Tree of blood (1996)
In the colorful forest village of Amanha Lundju, tradition demands that when a child is born a tree be planted.…
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Elio Petri – La classe operaia va in paradiso AKA The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971)
Quote: “Lulu the Tool” is no more descriptive a title for Elio Petri’s Italian social drama that opened yesterday at…
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Hector Babenco – My Hindu Friend (2015)
Quote: His father has died, he doesn’t speak for his brother for about 10 years and he has a serious…
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