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  • Urszula Antoniak – Nude Area (2014)

    2011-2020ArthouseNetherlandsQueer Cinema(s)RomanceUrszula Antoniak

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    Love doesn’t unfold like a story. Only the first and the last chapter are known. Love starts from Love and ends in letting go. In between there is tenderness and cruelty, waiting and fulfilment, ecstasy and disappointment. If love is a discourse, these are her figures of speech. An adolescent love between two girls. Childish cruelty is mixed with full blown sensuality. Dreams and life reflect and complete each other. The end is known, the story will be told after the love is gone.Read More »

  • Julius Schultheiß – Lotte (2016)

    2011-2020ArthouseDramaGermanyJulius Schultheiß

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    Lotte is impulsive, rough around the edges and leads a colourful life on the streets of Berlin, stumbling from man to man and flat to flat. One night in her local bar she bumps into Marcel, an almost forgotten acquaintance. Just after he recognises her Lotte takes flight, finding refuge in the flat of her friend Sabine. The following day, the events of the previous evening still grate on Lotte and she cannot seem to shake them off, even during her work at the hospital. A young girl, Greta, is brought in, Lotte takes care of her and a gentle affection develops between them. But this happiness is short-lived because, a little later, Lotte witnesses an encounter between Greta and Marcel. The three catch sight of each other and Lotte realises she will not be able to run away this time.Read More »

  • Leyla Bouzid – À peine j’ouvre les yeux AKA As I Open My Eyes (2015)

    2011-2020African CinemaArthouseDramaLeyla BouzidTunisia

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    Tunis, summer 2010, a few months before the Revolution: Farah, 18 years-old, has just graduated and her family already sees her as a future doctor. But she doesn’t think the same way. She sings in a political rock band. She has a passion for life, gets drunk, discovers love and her city by night against the will of her mother Hayet, who knows Tunisia and its dangers too well. Read More »

  • Lucian Pintilie – Tertium non datur (2006)

    Drama2001-2010ArthouseLucian PintilieRomania

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    Quote:
    It is the end of the Romanian war against the Soviet Union (but not the end of the WWII), as Germany and Romania are allies, but in a few weeks they will be enemies. Two German officers stop for a lunch with a group of Romanian officers and as the story develops, a pair of rare postage stamps are acquired in very different occasions, which underlines the differences between the group of officers. This deceptively simply short film has many complex ramifications about history, honor, about how material value translates in life and survival. Director Pintilie works beautifully with his actors, especially Victor Rebengiuc (a preferred actor of Pintilie) and his use of visual space in a small room is both inspired and effective.Read More »

  • Nikita Mikhalkov – Bez svideteley AKA Without Witness AKA In Private [+Extras] (1983)

    1981-1990ArthouseDramaNikita MikhalkovUSSR

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    Synopsis:
    Without Witness is an unflinchingly intimate and wickedly plotted two-actor tour de force pitting a divorced couple against each other and themselves.Read More »

  • Alberto Rodríguez – El hombre de las mil caras AKA The Man with Thousand Faces (2016)

    2011-2020Alberto RodríguezArthouseSpainThriller

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    The story of a man who fooled an entire country. A tale of cheats and impostors, taking its inspiration from true facts and from one of the most intriguing characters of recent decades: the spy Francisco Paesa.

    Nominated at
    31st Goya Awards
    Premios Feroz 2017 Read More »

  • Alain Guiraudie – Rester vertical AKA Staying vertical (2016)

    2011-2020Alain GuiraudieArthouseComedyFrance

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    Synopsis wrote:
    Filmmaker Leo is searching for the wolf in the south of France. During a scouting excursion he is seduced by Marie, a free-spirited and dynamic shepherdess. Nine months later she gives birth to their child. Suffering from post-natal depression and with no faith in Leo, who comes and goes without warning, Marie abandons both of them. Leo finds himself alone, with a baby to care for.Read More »

  • Frantisek Vlácil – Marketa Lazarová (1967)

    1961-1970ArthouseCzech RepublicDramaFrantisek Vlácil

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    Quote:
    In less than a minute, before the film’s opening titles even conclude, Marketa Lazarová has announced itself as something potentially unique, perhaps indefinable. The first line of a brief prologue declares, “This tale was cobbled together almost at random,” before a title card reiterates what we’re about to see as a “rhapsody in film,” one “freely adapted” by director František Vláčil and co-screenwriter František Pavlíček. That all these things are soon confirmed, even exceeded, is certainly the impetus behind Marketa Lazarová’s reputation as simultaneously one of the greatest and most difficult works of Czechoslovakian cinema. Though it emerged at the height of what came to be known as the Czech New Wave, this 1967 film stands as something rare not just amid the anarchic vulgarity of Daisies or the emotional naïveté of Loves of a Blonde, but also among the greater cinematic landscape of the period. What this film is—along with being, yes, random, free, and rhapsodic—is something stranger, something paradoxical and altogether original: an intimate epic, a tangible hallucination, a visceral symphony, and, perhaps most affectingly, a beautiful display of brutality.Read More »

  • Argyris Papadimitropoulos – Suntan (2016)

    2011-2020Argyris PapadimitropoulosArthouseComedyGreece

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    Synopsis
    On a hedonistic Greek island, a middle-aged doctor becomes obsessed with a young tourist when she lets him tag along with her group of hard partying friends.
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