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Drama
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Claude Miller – Un secret AKA A Secret (2007)
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Vittorio Cottafavi – Antigone (1971)
1971-1980DramaItalyTVVittorio CottafaviVittorio Cottafavi’s 1971 adaptation of the Sophocles play (he had adapted it earlier in 1958). Fans of Danièle Huillet & Jean-Marie Straub should be most impressed.Read More »
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Shu Shuen Tong – Dong fu ren AKA The Arch (1968)
1961-1970ArthouseDramaHong KongShu Shuen TongA woman falls in love with a visiting cavalry captain, but chooses to suppress it for the sake of her daughter.Read More »
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Yoshimitsu Morita – Ashura no gotoku AKA Like Asura (2003)
2001-2010ComedyDramaJapanYoshimitsu MoritaThe ups and downs of the Takezawa family after one of the four daughters found out that their father had been in an unknown love affair.Read More »
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Alain Resnais – Mélo (1986)
1981-1990Alain ResnaisArthouseDramaFranceIn Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who’s the wife of an old friend. Romaine instigates the affair with Marcel, and carries it forward even as her husband, Pierre, falls ill. She may even be purposely giving Pierre a treatment that adds to his misery. After Marcel returns from a concert tour and Romaine stoops to a new low in abandoning Pierre for an assignation, she reconsiders the affair and takes a drastic step. Three years later, Pierre pays Marcel a visit to demand the truth. Will the jealous and aggrieved Marcel manage a convincing performance?Read More »
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Brigitte Sy – L’astragale (2015)
Drama2011-2020Brigitte SyFrance
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true tale of Bonnie & Clyde, but one that’s much more about Bonnie than her beau, L’Astragale was an immense critical and public success when it was first published in France back in 1965. Written by the young, Algeria-born Albertine Sarrazin – whose autobiographical account of her life as a stick-up girl, prostitute, prisoner and bisexual lover, made her the distaff equivalent of Jean Genet – the novel was first brought to the screen in 1968 by director Guy Casaril, with actress Marlene Jobert (We Won’t Grow Old Together) making a splash in the lead role. (Horst Buchholz, aka Chico from The Magnificent Seven, played her partner-in-crime.)Read More » -
Robert Siodmak – Escape from East Berlin (1962)
1961-1970DramaRobert SiodmakUSAPlot Synopsis
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The film opens with Karl Schroeder (Don Murray), chauffeur to an East German Major, seeing a friend killed as he tried to drive his truck through the wall, He is persuaded by the friend’s sister, Erika Jurgens (Christine Kaufmann), and his own family to engineer an attempt to make an escape to the Western sector of the city by digging a tunnel under the wall which is close to their home…
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Mathieu Amalric – Tournée AKA On Tour (2010)
2001-2010ComedyDramaFranceMathieu AmalricQuote:
In his fourth film as director and as the only professional actor in a cast of amateurs, Mathieu Amalric stars as Joachim, a washed-up television producer who, after leaving his life in Paris for the United States, returns home for a cross-country tour with a burlesque troupe. Joachim takes the troupe, played by actual burlesque performers with stage names like Kitten on the Keys and Dirty Martini, to show after show in towns along the coast (amusingly, the outline of their travel path resembles a bare breast). Joachim serves only as the ladies’ manager (when he tries to give them performance notes, they reject his advice), but they form a ramshackle surrogate family that – wait for it – comes to stand in for the actual family Joachim left behind. When the venue for the troupe’s planned grand finale in Paris pulls out, he must return to the capital to find another; while there, he reunites with his young children, an ex-lover, and various other people from his past.Read More » -
Takuya Fukushima – Our Brief Eternity (2009)
2001-2010DramaFantasyJapanTakuya FukushimaIn Tokyo, the new type of virus called Emanon has spread out. Once people infected by the virus, they lose their most important person’s memory. Teru, a guy who spends his life lazily, met his previous girlfriend Mio. But she has infected by the virus and forgot about him. Because of the virus, the world has plunged into confusion and it’s been growing as a global pandemic. In the meantime, Teru and Mio restarted their relationship but he also infected and lost the memory about Mio. Tokyo fall into a turmoil and shattered. Teru and Mio ended up in the countryside where they’ve been before.Read More »








