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Robert Bresson – Une femme douce (1969)
Quote: Bresson’s brilliant adaptation of Dostoevsky’s short story (A Gentle Creature) exhibits in its lapidary sequences the political and existential…
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Arousi-ye Khouban AKA Marriage of the Blessed (1989)
Review by Jonathan Rosenbaum A 1989 film by Mohsen Makhmalbaf about the upsetting discoveries made by a shell-shocked veteran of…
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Eric Rohmer – Conte d’hiver AKA A Winter’s Tale (1992)
A Winter’s Tale is the second installment in French director Eric Rohmer’s Tale of Four Seasons series. Rohmer’s intention with…
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Rafaël Ouellet – Camion (2012)
From Toronto International Film Festival website : Truck driving is all sixty-year-old widower Germain (Julien Poulin) has ever known. When…
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Douglas Sirk – Zu neuen Ufern AKA To New Shores (1937)
Quote: “The film is a melodrama in the high Sirk style (Leander is a cabaret singer in 1840s London who…
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Lucas Belvaux – 38 témoins AKA One Night (2012)
A brutal murder in Le Havre: 38 people must have noticed, but say they heard or saw nothing. A claustrophobic,…
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Eric Rohmer – L’anglaise et le duc AKA The Lady and the Duke (2001)
Storyline An episodic look at Grace Elliott (1760-1823) and Philippe, the Duke of Orleans, during the French Revolution. In 1790,…
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Dusan Makavejev – Sweet Movie (1974)
Dušan Makavejev’s anarchic 1974 comedy goes even further than his previous W.R., depicting more trangressions than the average viewer’s imagination…
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Liv Ullmann – Trolösa AKA Faithless (2000)
Renowned actress-turned-director Liv Ullmann helms this bleak, nuanced film about marriage and betrayal penned by legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman. The…
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