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HappenstanceHappenstance (Le Battement d'ailes du Papillon) (2000)
Dir. Laurent Firode
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Faudel , Eric Savin
Cute French riff on the 'butterfly effect' of chaos theory, in which a Parisian office–worker (Tautou) becomes unknowingly trapped in a train…
Harry, He's Here to HelpHarry, He's Here to Help (With a Friend Like Harry,Who Needs Enemies?) (2000) Recommended
Dir. Dominik Moll
Feat. Sergi Lopez, Laurent Lucas
French festival–hit that invokes the delicious menace of Alfred Hitchcock with its insidious central character, Harry (Sergi Lopez) who invites…
HimalayaHimalaya (2000) Recommended
Dir. Eric Valli
Feat. Thilen Lhondup, Gurgon Kyap, Lhakpa Tsamchoe
A journey into the life of a remote Nepalese village which relies on an annual pilgrimage to collect salt from the Tibetan side of the Himalayas,…
In the Mood for LoveIn the Mood for Love (2000) Recommended
Dir. Wong Kar-Wai
Feat. Tony Leung (Chiu-wai), Maggie Cheung
As in DAYS OF BEING WILD, dir. Wong Kar–Wai portrays the languor of a 1960s Hong Kong in which two neighbours discover their respective spouses…
IsolaIsola (Tajuu jinkaku shôjo) (2000)
Dir. Toshiyuki Mizutani
Feat. Yoshino Kimura
Curious but finally rather tepid riff on the J–Horror genre has a psychic woman (Kimura) travelling to the city of Kobe to offer help in the…
JSA: Joint Security AreaJSA: Joint Security Area (2000) Recommended
Dir. Park Chan-Wook
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Young-ae Lee
A Korean military thriller of high repute that opens with a double–killing on the bitterly–tense border between North and South and…
Les Destinees SentimentalesLes Destinees Sentimentales (2000)
Dir. Olivier Assayas
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Charles Berling, Isabelle Huppert
Genteel family saga from the trilogy of novels by Jacques Chardonne that follows the destiny of pastor Charles Berling through the first decades of…
Little OtikLittle Otik (Otesanek) (2000) Recommended
Dir. Jan Svankmajer
Feat. Veronika Zilkova, Jan Hartl, Kristina Adamcova
Animation guru and ‘militant surrealist’ Jan Svankmajer elaborates on a distinctively Czech fairy tale about a monstrous baby that grows…
LumumbaLumumba (2000) Recommended
Dir. Raoul Peck
Feat. Eric Ebouaney
A strident and fittingly uncompromising biopic about an African political icon, Patrice Lumumba, who liberated the Congo from Belgium in the late…
MalenaMalena (2000)
Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore
Feat. Monica Bellucci
The dir. of CINEMA PARADISO throws an amber–lit glow around a man’s memory of a boyhood infatuation in his hometown in WWII Sicily.…

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