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Subgenre Sampler

 
Every Little ThingEvery Little Thing (La Monindre des choses) (1996)
Dir. Nicolas Philibert
Documentarian extraordinaire Nicholas Philibert observes the rehearsals and performance of an annual summer play by the inmates of an idyllic French…
FiestaFiesta (1996)
Dir. Pierre Boutron
Feat. Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gregoire Colin
Biting, rigorously intelligent parable of the Spanish Civil War, watches unblinking as a young soldier is intiated into the brutalities by his…
FireFire (1996) Recommended
Dir. Deepa Mehta
Feat. Shabana Azmi, Nandita Das
Blazing melodrama defiantly targets Indian sexual hypocrisy and tradition, not to mention trangressing 'Bollywood' taboo, in portraying two women…
Flower of My Secret, TheFlower of My Secret, The (1996)
Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Marisa Paredes
An artistic maturing for the director of kitsch sex comedies like HIGH HEELS and KIKA, this is an introspective study of a successful authoress…
Forbidden City CopForbidden City Cop (1996)
Dir. Vincent Tak-Chiu
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Hysterical and kinda crazy semi–sequel to the smash hit comedy FROM BEIJING WITH LOVE, splices James Bond with A CHINESE GHOST STORY, following…
French TwistFrench Twist (Gazon Maudit) (1996) Recommended
Dir. Josiane Balasko
Feat. Victoria Abril, Josiane Balasko
Radiant Spanish star Victoria Abril plays a betrayed wife teased into an affair with a butch lesbian (director Balasko). Many permutations of a very…
Fudoh - The Next GenerationFudoh - The Next Generation (1996)
Dir. Takashi Miike
Feat. Shosuke Tanihara, Kenji Takano, Marie Jinno
Possibly the first film that gave the Western world an inkling of dir. Miike's unhinged worldview, investing a tale of yakuza vengeance with surreal,…
GabbehGabbeh (1996) Recommended
Dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Feat. Abbas Sayah, Shaghayeh Djodat, Hossein Moharami
Unique combination of lyricism and social realism from one of the icons of Iranian cinema – a story of a remote struggling tribe, the…
God of Cookery, TheGod of Cookery, The (1996) Recommended
Dir. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Feat. Stephen Chow (Chiao)
Stephen Chow cooks up a comic storm as a mercilessly ego–centric chef who, in great narrative tradition, is forced to truly earn his title…
Goodbye South GoodbyeGoodbye South Goodbye (1996) Recommended
Dir. Hou Hsiao-Hsien
Feat. Jack Kao, Lim Giong
Another exemplary, detailed effort from dir. Hsiao–Hsien, this time following a couple of small time grafters trying to put together 'the big…

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