Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Malena (2000)- Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Monica Bellucci - The dir. of CINEMA PARADISO throws an amber–lit glow around a man’s memory of a boyhood infatuation in his hometown in WWII Sicily.…
Me You Them (Eu Tu Eles) (2000)
- Dir. Andrucha Waddington
Feat. Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia - Set in the arid hinterlands of Brazil, this serio–comic study of rural polyandry has Regina Case (Brazil’s Oprah Winfrey) hitch up three…
One Hundred Steps, The (I Cento Passi) (2000)- Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana
- Expansive, fact–based drama set around a young man's fight against local mafiosos in the small Sicilian village of Cinisi in the…
Platform (Zhantai) (2000)- Dir. Jia Zhang-ke
Feat. Zhao Tao - Taking its title from a Chinese hit rock song of the 80s, this fetchingly spare epic meditates on the changes of that turbulent decade and the…
Presque Rien (Almost Nothing) (2000)- Dir. Sebastien Lifshitz
Feat. Jérémie Elkaïm, Stephane Rideau - French drama of melancholic first love that, despite the common themes, sets itself apart with sensitive acting and a deeply felt approach to the…
Road Home, The (2000)- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Zhang Ziyi, Honglei Sun, Hao Zhang - Tackling the period of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, period dir. Zhang Yimou (RAISE THE RED LANTERN) gives the story of a young man's return home…
Shadow Magic (2000)- Dir. Ann Hu
Feat. Jared Harris - The 'shadow magic' in question is the early cinema, which is brought to Beijing in 1902 by a travelling promoter (Harris), who, along with a local…
Shower (Xizhao) (2000)- Dir. Zhang Yang
Feat. Pu Cunxin, Zhu Xu - A popular success with international audiences, this Chinese comedy is centred around a modern–day bathhouse in Beijing without a…
Sky Is Falling, The (Cielo cade, Il) (2000)- Dir. Andrea Frazzi, Antonio Frazzi
Feat. Isabella Rossellini, Jeroen Krabbe - Two young orphan girls are sent to live with relatives in Tuscany, Italy during WW2 and discover intriguing new perspectives through their Jewish…
Town is Quiet, The (La Ville est Tranquille) (2000)- Dir. Robert Guediguian
Feat. Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin - A characteristically gritty yet humanist urban drama that expands out in scope from the directors’ previous snapshots of life in his home town…
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