Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Election (2005)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Simon Yam, Tony Leung (Kar-fai)
- A terrific gangland power tussle from genre exponent Johnnie To, this combative suspenser embarks on the shady underworld of triad politics in…
Elsa and Fred (2005)
- Dir. Marcos Carnevale
Feat. Manuel Alexandre, China Zorrilla
- Exquisitely acted romance between a pair of senior citizens expresses enough tenderness and fragility to overcome its rather prosaic storyline.…
Familia (2005)
- Dir. Lousie Archambault
Feat. Mylene St-Sauveur, Macha Grenon, Sylvie Moreau
- Multi–faceted, thoroughly entertaining drama centres on the frequently discordant child–rearing beliefs of two friends as they attempt to…
Fateless (Sorstalanság) (2005)
- Dir. Lajos Koltai
Feat. Marcell Nagy, Aron Dimeny, Daniel Craig
- Harrowing and distilled vision of the Holocaust adapted from a novel by concentration–camp survivor and Nobel prize–winning author Imre…
Ferpect Crime (Crimen Ferpecto) (2005)
- Dir. Alex de la Iglesia
Feat. Guillermo Toledo, Monica Cervera
- A spunky Spanish black comedy set almost entirely in a department store, where an obnoxious playboy salesman is blackmailed by a…
Fever, The (Febbre, La) (2005)
- Dir. Alessandro D'Alatri
Feat. Arnoldo Foa, Fabio Volo
- Multi–layered Italian comedy following a thirty–something drifter living at home with mummy dearest who is given the life–altering…
Gabrielle (2005)
- Dir. Patrice Chereau
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Pascal Greggory
- Absorbing adaptation of a Joseph Conrad short story coolly dissects the disintegrating marriage of a bourgeois French couple.
Gorgeously framed…
Garam Masala (2005)
- Dir. Priyadarshan
Feat. Akshay Kumar, Paresh Rawal
- Frantically screwball Indian romcom juggles a plotline concerning the numerous female entanglements of a playboy photographer (Kumar) and his former…
Go For Zucker! (Alles auf Zucker!) (2005)
- Dir. Dani Levy
Feat. Henry Hubchen
- Oxymoronic ‘German–Jewish’ comedy that looks at the literal and metaphorical reconciliation of two estranged brothers; one an East German…
Great Yokai War, The (Yôkai daisensô) (2005)
- Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Chiaki Kuriyama
- The latest cinematic mash–up from dir. Miike (AUDITION) is a family–orientated adventure in which a shy young boy from a broken family…