Mix-and-match from
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Subgenre Sampler
Funeral, The (1984)- Dir. Juzo Itami
Feat. Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto - A Buddhist funeral service for a brothel owner makes an ideal vehicle for both fiendish black comedy and social satire. An assured debut from the…
Holy Innocents, The (1984)- Dir. Mario Camus
Feat. Alfredo Landa, Terele Pavez, Belen Ballesteros - A soldier returns to his rural croft and recalls his impoverished family's struggle with daily life and unscrupulous landlords. The bitter climate of…
Kaos (1984)
- Dir. Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
- Marvellous but rarely seen compendium of four tales (and an epilogue) by Luigi Pirandello set in the parched landscape of Sicily. 'The Other Son'…
- Ladies On the Rocks (1984)
- Dir. Christian Thomsen
Feat. Gotha Anderson, Bruno Bjorn, Peter Boesen - Two women cabaret performers win the hearts of provincial audiences with their raucous brand of feminist humour. Ironically, their increasing…
Legend of the Suram Fortress (1984)- Dir. Sergei Paradjanov
- Soviet dir. Sergei Paradjanov resumed his filmmaking career after years of exile with this visually rapturous, obscure folk tale. More opaque in…
Love Unto Death (L'amour à Mort) (1984)- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. Sabine Azema, Fanny Ardant, Pierre Arditi - Alain Resnais (HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR) pursues his themes of love and death with this symbolic tale of lovers Simon (Arditi) and Elizabeth (Azema)…
Lust For Love of a Chinese Courtesan (Ai nu xin zhuan) (1984)- Dir. Yuen Chor
- A middling remake by dir. Chor of his own classic 1972 Shaw Brothers sexploitationer INTIMATE CONFESSIONS OF A CHINESE COURTESAN. Tending towards a…
My New Partner (Les Ripoux) (1984)- Dir. Claude Zidi
Feat. Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte - The genial Phillipe Noiret plays a slobbish corrupt cop saddled with a straight–laced partner in this hilarious caper comedy. It's a delight…
Runner, The (1984)- Dir. Amir Naderi
Feat. Abbas Nazeri, Majid Niroumand, Musa Torkizadeh - On a coastline strewn with the flotsam of the Arabian Gulf, an Iranian orphan boy scrapes a living together scavenging and selling ice before it…
Sunday in the Country, A (1984)- Dir. Bertrand Tavernier
Feat. Louis Ducreux, Sabine Azema, Michel Aumont… - An elderly painter invites his family to his country villa; in a single day their happinesses and sorrows come to be expressed. Subtle, intelligent…
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