Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
Romance (1999)
- Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stevenin
- A schoolteacher's boyfriend loses sexual interest in her, so she embarks on a series of unlikely sexual encounters in search of intimacy and…
Rosetta (1999)
- Dir. Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne
Feat. Emilie Dequenne
- Drawing creative parallels with the Danish 'Dogma' movement, this is a rigidly intense study in survivalism that forsakes any plot contrivance to…
Running Out of Time (1999)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Andy Lau, Lau Ching-wan
- A crackingly–paced, plot–bending Yin–Yang heist drama, with terminally–ill master jewel thief Andy Lau playing against the…
Shiri (Swiri) (1999)
- Dir. Kang Je-Gyu
Feat. Min-sik Choi, Yunjin Kim, Kang-ho Song…
- South Korean actioner from director Kang Je–gyu (BROTHERHOOD OF WAR) in which a pair of agents are tracking down female assassin from North…
Three Seasons (1999)
- Dir. Tony Bui
Feat. Harvey Keitel
- The first US film to be shot in post–war Vietnam, this intertwined series of four tales set in contemporary Saigon, rapturously conveys a…
Time Regained (Le Temps Retrouve) (1999)
- Dir. Raul Ruiz
Feat. Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Beart, John Malkovich…
- Legendary surrealist Chilean director Ruiz takes a break from his schedule or runaway obscurities (most sadly unavailable in NZ) for this legit…
Tomie (1999)
- Dir. Ataru Oikawa
Feat. Tomorowo Taguchi, Miho Kanno
- A severed head in a paper bag mutates into the film's titular school girl from hell in this malevolent Japanese horror offering genuine creeps under…
Venus Beauty Institute (Venus Beauty) (1999)
- Dir. Tonie Marshall
Feat. Nathalie Baye, Audrey Tautou
- A modest beauty salon is the setting for this wry ensemble piece about the vagaries of womanhood, with an engagingly eccentric collection of clients…
Yi Yi (A One and a Two) (1999)
- Dir. Edward Yang
Feat. Nien-Jen Wu, Elaine Jin, Issey Ogata
- Masterful cinema – a drama that loosely surveys a middle–class family in contemporary Taipei, encompassing a wealth of human observation…
2 Seconds (1998)
- Dir. Manon Briand
Feat. Charlotte Laurier, Dino Tavarone
- A frothily enjoyable drama set around a mountain–bike rider (Laurier), who despite an addiction to the thrills of high speed cycling, is forced…