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Patricio Guzmán – El Botón de Nácar AKA The Pearl Button (2015)
Synopsis The ocean contains the history of all humanity. The sea holds all the voices of the earth and those…
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Jean-Pierre Dikongue-Pipa – Muna Moto (1975)
Quote: Ngando and Ndomé share an extremely perfect love. Yet, tradition demands a dowry for Ndomé’s hand that Ngando, an…
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François Girard – Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould (1993)
Synopsis: As the title suggests, this dramatised documentary about the eccentric Canadian pianist Glenn Gould is broken up into thirty-two…
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Edward Yang – Gu ling jie shao nian sha ren shi jian AKA A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
Quote: It’s only natural that Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day begins with a shot of a barely-lit light bulb.…
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Larry Clark – The Smell of Us (2014)
Quote: The dirty old man hanging out with all those oversexed Paris teenagers in “The Smell of Us” is none…
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Gaspar Noé – Irréversible (2002)
Quote: Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is…
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Jon Tuska – The Detective In Hollywood (1978)
The Detective In Hollywood: The Movie Careers Of The Great Fictional Private Eyes And Their Creators is a fascinating study…
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Anne Émond – Les êtres chers AKA Our Loved Ones (2015)
Guy’s tragic death is a shock for the Leblanc family. For many years, the real cause of his death is…
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Zeki Demirkubuz – Kiskanmak AKA Envy (2009)
Quote: It’s the 1930s. The Republic Day Ball is in progress in Zonguldak, a coal mining town in Turkey. Among…
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