Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Happenstance (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 Help (With a Friend Like Harry,Who Needs Enemies?) (2000)
- 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…
Himalaya (2000)
- 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 Love (2000)
- 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…
Isola (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 Area (2000)
- 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 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 Otik (Otesanek) (2000)
- 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…
Lumumba (2000)
- 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…
Malena (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.…