Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Venus Beauty Institute (Venus Beauty) (1999)- Dir. Tonie Marshall
Feat. Nathalie Baye, Audrey Tautou - A modest beauty salon is the setting for this wry ensemble piece about the vagaries of womanhood, with an engagingly eccentric collection of clients…
Yi Yi (A One and a Two) (1999)
- Dir. Edward Yang
Feat. Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issey Ogata - Masterful cinema – a drama that loosely surveys a middle–class family in contemporary Taipei, encompassing a wealth of human observation…
2 Seconds (1998)- Dir. Manon Briand
Feat. Charlotte Laurier, Dino Tavarone - A frothily enjoyable drama set around a mountain–bike rider (Laurier), who despite an addiction to the thrills of high speed cycling, is forced…
Alice Et Martin (1998)- Dir. Andre Techine
Feat. Juliette Binoche, Carmen Maura, Mathieu Amalric - A maladjusted young drifter (Alexis Loret) has success as a Paris fashion model and a torrid love affair with his half–brother's…
An Autumn Tale (1998)- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Marie Riviere, Beatrice Romand, Alain Libolt - Completing his suite of films based on the four seasons, dir. Rohmer provides another mellow, seemingly unplotted comedy, in which Rhone valley…
Beau Travail (1998)- Dir. Claire Denis
Feat. Denis Lavant, Michel Subor, Gregoire Colin - Best Film of 2000 for many highbrow critics, this oblique study of jealousy and power in the ranks of the French Foreign Legion is pure…
Besieged (1998)- Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci
Feat. Thandiwe Newton, David Thewlis - Returning to a 'chamber–piece' setting reminiscent of LAST TANGO IN PARIS, dir. Bertolucci unfolds an enigmatic relationship in a Rome…
Bird People In China, The (Chûgoku no chôjin) (1998)- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Masahiro Motoki, Renji Ishibashi - Visually rich and accomplished drama set around a parallel journey by a businessman and a yakuza gangster to a remote Chinese highland in search of a…
Central Station (1998)- Dir. Walter Salles
Feat. Fernanda Montenegro - A cantankerous woman who writes letters for the illiterate at Rio De Janeiro's train station obliges to help a 9–year–old boy locate his…
Chance or Coincidence (1998)- Dir. Claude Lelouch
Feat. Alessandra Martines, Pierre Arditi, Marc Hollogne - Bereaved wife Alessandra Martine speeds like a comet through this intriguing comedy from dir. Lelouch equal parts melodrama, musical and…
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