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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
- Dir. Bela Tarr
Feat. Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla - A visionary film to herald in the 21st century, Bela Tarr’s apocalyptic masterpiece begins with the arrival of a bizarre circus attraction to a…
Afterlife (1999)- Dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu
Feat. Arata Erika Oda, Susumu Terajima - Original, intriguing conception of what happens after life – a panel of students challenge a succession of deceased persons to choose one…
All About My Mother (1999)- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Cecilia Roth - Almodovar's "celebration of mother and womanhood" has been hailed as something of a departure for the director, though in fact all of his (beloved)…
Bleeder (1999)- Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
Feat. Kim Bodnia - Hard–nosed drama about a brooding man who turns destructive when he learns of his girlfriend’s pregnancy in…
Butterfly's Tongue (La lengua de las mariposas) (1999)- Dir. Jose Luis Cuerda
Feat. Fernando Fernan Gomez, Manuel Lozano - Heartwarming Spanish coming–of–age drama set in Galicia in 1936. Against the backdrop of the encroaching Spanish Civil War, a shy…
Cabaret Balkan (The Powder Keg) (1999)- Dir. Goran Paskaljevic
Feat. Nikola Ristanovski - Troubling split–portrait of the Serbian psyche, depicting a series of often violent incidents over the course of a single night in Belgrade,…
Celebration, The (Festen) (1999)- Dir. Thomas Vinterberg
Feat. Ulrich Thomsen, Henning Moritzen, Thomas Bo Larsen - Conceived and executed under the "Dogma 95" manifesto, this corrosive black comedy sees the birthday celebrations of a wealthy family implode after…
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