Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3343 Films to Buy & Rent
On Connait la Chanson (Same Old Song) (1997)
- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azema, Jean-Pierre Bacri…
- A winner of seven Cesar awards, this light–hearted homage to Dennis Potter applies his musical–cinematic ideas to the…
Once Upon a Time in China and America (1997)
- Dir. Sammo Hung
Feat. Jet Li
- Jet Li reprises his signature role in the popular saga, this time reinvented as a Kung Fu Western – the perfect setting for…
Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos) (1997)
- Dir. Alejandro Amenabar
Feat. Eduardo Noriega, Penelope Cruz, Chete Lera
- A surrealistic nightmare unfurled with Hitchcockian precision and irony, Eduardo Noriega plays a young–man–who–has–everything…
Port Djema (1997)
- Dir. Eric Heumann
Feat. Jean-Yves Dubois, Nathalie Boutefeu, Christophe Odent…
- A Paris surgeon gets into the thick of dangerous politics at an East African colonial port as he traces the footsteps of a murdered friend. Won Best…
Post Coitum (1997)
- Dir. Brigitte Rouan
Feat. Brigitte Rouan
- The director herself plays a 40–year–old wife, mother and book editor who has her respectable life devastated after a whirlwind affair…
Secrets of the Heart (Secretos del Corazon) (1997)
- Dir. Montxo Armendariz
Feat. Andoni Erburu, Inigo Garces
- A subdued drama that views rural Spain through the childs' eye of its protaganist, a young boy whose curiosity leads him into a haunted house…
Shall We Dance? (Shall We Dansu?) (1997)
- Dir. Masayuki Suo
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Tamiyo Kusakari
- Happiness eludes a successful Japanese salaryman, so he plucks up the courage to attend dance lessons. Hugely popular home and international hit got…
Taste of Cherry, A (1997)
- Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Feat. Homayon Ershadi, Abdolrahman Bagheri, Afshin Khorshid Bakhtiari
- Kiarostami's Palme D'Or winner follows the 'last rites' of an affluent, suicidal middle–aged man who scours the streets of Teheran for an…
Three Men and a Leg (1997)
- Dir. Aldo , Giovanni , Giacomo
Feat. Aldo , Giovanni , Giacomo
- Slapstick magic from favourite Italian comic trio, Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo, this frantic yet first rate farce was naturally a box–office…
Truce, The (1997)
- Dir. Francesco Rosi
Feat. John Turturro, Rade Serbedzija
- The aftermath of WWII locates Auschwitz survivor John Turturro on a difficult, redemptive journey back to his home town.
Based on Primo Levi's…