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This movie is a great adaptation from the book by the renown artist Jimmy from Taiwan. Not only faithfully materializing the conception from the poetic illustrations in the book, the movie also adds witty dialogs and funny buffoon performance of the supporting roles for the whole story, which does not exist in the original. The movie debuted as number 1 in the box offices of Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. The original book has been sold for more than tens of thousands copies in more than five languages.Read More »
2000s
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Johnnie To – Heung joh chow heung yau chow aka Turn left turn right (2003)
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Luis Ospina – Un tigre de papel AKA A Paper Tiger (2008)
2001-2010ColombiaDocumentaryLuis Ospina

The life of Pedro Manrique Figueroa, a pioneer of collage in Colombia, is like an adventure novel that is both incomplete and contradictory. Taking his life and work as a pretext, this mockumentary takes the viewer on a journey through history from the year 1934 up until 1981, when the artist mysteriously disappeared from view. Un tigre de papel is itself a collage, where art and politics rub shoulders, and where truth and lies are placed side by side.Read More »
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Suzana Amaral – Uma Vida em Segredo (2001)
Drama2001-2010ArthouseBrazilSuzana AmaralThe Female GazeYoung girl, born and raised in an isolated farm, is brought to a small town to live with her cousins, her only relatives. Once in town, she encounters great difficulty adapting to city life.Read More »
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Elmo Nüganen – Nimed marmortahvlil AKA Names Engraved in Marble (2002)
2001-2010DramaElmo NüganenEstoniaWarBased on an acclaimed 1935 novel about the War of Liberation (1918-1920) that ensured Estonia’s independence, the film tells about a group of young schoolboys heading to the front to fight the army of Soviet Russia.Read More »
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Claude Berri – L’Un reste, l’autre part AKA One Stays, the Other Leaves (2005)
2001-2010Claude BerriComedyDramaFrance

“I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave.” Claude Berri
L’un reste, L’autre part is the story of two old time friends, both in their fifties, both married, who fall for two younger women. The cast is nothing less than stellar: Daniel Auteuil, Nathalie Baye, Pierre Arditi, Miou-Miou and Charlotte Gainsbourg
Attal’s real-life wife, Charlotte Gainsbourg, appears as one of two romantic foils a character drama in which over-middle-age men fall in love with younger women and must confront the ramifications of ending their marriages (one does and one doesn’t, or so the title would have you believe).Read More »
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Johnnie To – Yesterday Once More (2004)
2001-2010ComedyCrimeHong KongJohnnie ToRomance blossoms again for a divorced jewel-thief couple as they try to rekindle the love they once had for each.Read More »
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Trinh T. Minh-ha & Jean-Paul Bourdier – Night Passage (2004)
2001-2010ExperimentalJean-Paul BourdierSci-FiTrinh T. Minh-haUSAMade in homage to Kenji Miyazawa’s children’s sci-fi classic MILKY WAY RAILROAD, NIGHT PASSAGE is the latest experimental feature from celebrated filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha and artist Jean Paul Bourdier (REASSEMBLAGE, THE FOURTH DIMENSION, A TALE OF LOVE, SHOOT FOR THE CONTENTS, SURNAME VIET GIVEN NAME NAM). This provocative digital tale tells the story of three young friends traveling for a brief moment together on the train between life and death. Their journey into and out of the land of ‘awakened dreams’ occurs on a long ride on a night train. Ingeniously framed through the train window, filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha and artist Jean Paul Bourdier create whimsical and sensual dreamscapes, which is matched by an equally beautiful and other-worldly music score. Once again, Minh-ha shifts the way she engages with the form and the spirit of the cinema—to challenge and provoke her audience.Read More »
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Maria Beatty – Bandaged (2009)
2001-2010ArthouseEroticaGermanyMaria BeattyQueer Cinema(s)Synopsis:
Since his wife’s death, Arthur, a peculiar and severe surgeon, cloisters his teen daughter Lucille inside a strange mansion. Desperate, Lucille tries to commit suicide but ends up with her face burned and bandaged. Arthur, with the assistance of his aunt Ingrid who doesn’t know what he is really doing, prepares a weird skin graft in order to give back Lucille a face, a face that resembles his beloved and deceased wife. To take care of Lucille, the father hires Joan, an attractive nurse with a somber past. Lucille and Joan start a forbidden and passionate love affair…Read More » -
Mira Nair – The Namesake (2006)
Drama2001-2010IndiaMira Nair

Synopsis
American-born Gogol, the son of Indian immigrants, wants to fit in among his fellow New Yorkers, despite his family’s unwillingness to let go of their traditional ways.Read More »





