Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1792 Films to Buy & Rent
Lies (Gojitmal) (1999)
- Dir. Jang Sun-Woo
Feat. Kim Tae Yeon, Lee Sang Hyun
- Highly controversial in its native Korea (the source novel was banned) this tale of S&M sex–addiction between a schoolgirl and an older…
Mifune (1999)
- Dir. Soren Kragh-Jacobson
Feat. Iben Hjejle, Anders W Berthelsen, Jesper Asholt…
- The third Dogma 95 film is in many ways as traditional a European romantic comedy as you could come across, a breezy and smart take on a yuppie…
Moloch (1999)
- Dir. Alexandr Sokurov
Feat. Yelena Rufanova, Leonid Mozgovoy
- Typically Sokurov, the dir. of RUSSIAN ARK turns his filtered lens on a day in the life of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, concerned more with the…
Not One Less (1999)
- Dir. Zhang Yimou
Feat. Wei Minzhi
- 13–year old peasant–girl Wei Minzhi is handed the responsibility of substitute–teaching a class of children in a rural China…
Pornographic Affair, A (An Affair Of Love) (1999)
- Dir. Frederic Fonteyne
Feat. Nathalie Baye, Sergi Lopez
- A decidedly unpornographic meditation upon the mutability of human desires and emotions, with Nathalie Baye and Sergi Lopez as a nameless couple who…
Postmen in the Mountains (Nashan naren nagou) (1999)
- Dir. Jianqi Huo
- A simply conveyed fable of 'youth' coming to an understanding of 'age', with a young man accompanying his father on a long–held postal delivery…
Romance (1999)
- Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stevenin
- A schoolteacher's boyfriend loses sexual interest in her, so she embarks on a series of unlikely sexual encounters in search of intimacy and…
Rosetta (1999)
- Dir. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Feat. Emilie Dequenne
- Drawing creative parallels with the Danish 'Dogma' movement, this is a rigidly intense study in survivalism that forsakes any plot contrivance to…
Three Seasons (1999)
- Dir. Tony Bui
Feat. Harvey Keitel
- The first US film to be shot in post–war Vietnam, this intertwined series of four tales set in contemporary Saigon, rapturously conveys a…
Time Regained (Le Temps Retrouve) (1999)
- Dir. Raul Ruiz
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Beart, John Malkovich…
- Legendary surrealist Chilean director Ruiz takes a break from his schedule or runaway obscurities (most sadly unavailable in NZ) for this legit…