Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
La Ciénaga (The Swamp) (2001)
- Dir. Lucrecia Martel
Feat. Graciela Borges, Mercedes Morán, Martín Adjemián…
- Dir. Lucrecia Martel's debut film is an abstract Chekhovian tale of two bourgeois families roasting under the Argentinian sun within the confines of…
Lady and the Duke, The (2001)
- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Jean Claude Dreyfus, Lucy Russell
- Intellectually stimulating and strikingly anti–realist account of the French Revolution, told through the (true–life) relationship…
Lagaan (2001)
- Dir. Ashutosh Gowariker
Feat. Aamir Khan, Gracey Singh, Paul Blackthorne…
- Bollywood epic that broke through to international awards and audience with its ‘test–match’ running–time, lavishness and periodic…
Laissez-Passer (Safe Conduct) (2001)
- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Jacques Gamblin, Denis Podalydes, Marie Gillain
- A vivid and suspenseful drama set in the French film industry during the German occupation of WWII, this is a labour of love for leading French dir.…
Last Kiss, The (L'Ultimo Bacio) (2001)
- Dir. Gabriel Muccino
Feat. Stefano Accorsi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefania Sandrelli
- Award–winning Italian melodrama investigates the anxieties of a young unmarried couple on the verge of parenthood.
Stefano Accorsi is torn…
Love On a Diet (2001)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng
- The dir. of HEROIC TRIO, takes a serious change of tack with a weight–problem comedy. Looking to re–ignite her former romance with…
Merci Pour Le Chocolat (Nightcap) (2001)
- Dir. Claude Chabrol
Feat. Isabelle Huppert
- Slyly subversive psychodrama, with Isabelle Huppert excelling as the owner of a Swiss chocolate–business, who also happens to be a…
Millennium Mambo (2001)
- Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Shu Qi
- The first in dir. Hou’s ‘contemporary youth’ trilogy is a light–infused strobe of aimless young adults living in the accelerated urban…
Minor Mishaps (2001)
- Dir. Annette K. Olesen
Feat. Jorgen Kiil, Maria Wurgler Rich, Jannie Faurschou
- Emerging from the lighter end of the Dogme 95 movement, this drama reunites a father and three children after the death of their mother in a car…
Mortal Transfer (2001)
- Dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix
Feat. Jean-Hugues Anglade, Miki Manojlovic, Helene de Fougerolles…
- Freudian psycho–thriller with analyst Anglade finding himself a little too attracted to masochistic patient de Fougerolles. Delirious visuals…