Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
Autumn Sun (Sol de otoño) (1996)- Dir. Eduardo Mignogna
Feat. Frederico Luppi, Norma Aleandro - Argentine drama following a Jewish woman who pretends to be in a relationship with a Jewish man from Uruguay (Frederico Luppi, CRONOS) to appease her…
Bag of Rice (1996)- Dir. Mohammad-Ali Talebi
Feat. Jairan Abadzade, Shirin Bina, Masume Eskandari - A child and her elderly neighbour have small adventures on the streets of Tehran while trying to buy a sack of rice. Those seeking a rare alternative…
Devil's Island (1996)- Dir. Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
Feat. Baltasar Kormakur, Gisli Halldorsson - The director of COLD FEVER bites off a little more ice than he can comfortably chew, with this sprawling tale of the difficulties of life in 1950s…
East Palace / West Palace (1996)- Dir. Zhang Yuan
Feat. Vicki Zhao, Si Han, Jun Hu - This rare independent mainland Chinese film is a difficult, often devastating two–hander between a gay man and the policeman sent to arrest him…
Eighth Day, The (1996)- Dir. Jaco Van Dormael
Feat. Daniel Auteuil - The director of the much–loved TOTO THE HERO makes another film about magic at ground level, with Daniel Auteuil having his humdrum life…
Fiesta (1996)- Dir. Pierre Boutron
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gregoire Colin - Biting, rigorously intelligent parable of the Spanish Civil War, watches unblinking as a young soldier is intiated into the brutalities by his…
Fire (1996)
- Dir. Deepa Mehta
Feat. Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das - Blazing melodrama defiantly targets Indian sexual hypocrisy and tradition, not to mention trangressing 'Bollywood' taboo, in portraying two women…
Flower of My Secret, The (1996)- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Marisa Paredes - An artistic maturing for the director of kitsch sex comedies like HIGH HEELS and KIKA, this is an introspective study of a successful authoress…
Gabbeh (1996)- Dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Feat. Abbas Sayah, Shaghayeh Djodat, Hossein Moharami… - Unique combination of lyricism and social realism from one of the icons of Iranian cinema – a story of a remote struggling tribe, the…
Goodbye South Goodbye (1996)- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Jack Kao, Lim Giong - Another exemplary, detailed effort from dir. Hsiao–Hsien, this time following a couple of small time grafters trying to put together 'the big…
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