Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3342 Films to Buy & Rent
Camille Rewinds (2012)
- Dir. Noemie Lvovsky
Feat. Noemie Lvovsky, Yolande Moreau, Denis Podalydes…
- A jilted 40–something woman drowns her sorrows to the point of oblivion, sending herself back in time to her sixteenth birthday where she gets…
Dangerous Liaisons (2012)
- Dir. Jin-ho Hur
Feat. Cecilia Cheung, Jang Dong-Gun, Zhang Ziyi
- A sumptuous new adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' famous novel, relocating the grand sexual conspiracy to opulent 1930s Shanghai, where two wealthy…
Dead Sushi (2012)
- Dir. Noboru Iguchi
Feat. Rina Takeda
- An innkeeper proficient in both karate and sushi making must fend off a hoard of flesh–eating California Rolls after one of her guests injects…
Doomsday Book (2012)
- Dir. Ji-woon Kim, Pil-Sung Yim
Feat. Doona Bae, Joon-ho Bong, Kang-woo Kim
- A trilogy of short sci–fi stories imagining mass extinction on planet earth, directed by two of Korean cinema's leading lights.
Oscillating…
Drug War (2012)
- Dir. Johnnie To
Feat. Louis Koo, Honglei Sun, Yi Huang…
- Another great Johnnie To suspenser, with the master director at the top of his game helming this exciting police procedural set around an elaborate…
Escape (2012)
- Dir. Roar Uthaug
Feat. Isabel Christine Andreasen, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
- A thrilling medieval chase movie, set in the aftermath of the Black Plague, about a captive teenage girl who escapes a bloodthirsty clan. Pursed…
Everybody Has a Plan (2012)
- Dir. Ana Piterbarg
Feat. Viggo Mortensen, Soledad Villamil
- A man dissatisfied with his life assumes the identity of his twin brother in this brooding Argentinian thriller.
Farewell, My Queen (2012)
- Dir. Benoît Jacquot
Feat. Diane Kruger, Léa Seydoux, Virginie Ledoyen…
- Benoît Jacquot’s film goes behind the scenes of Louis XVI and — more specifically — Marie Antoinette’s court during…
Fill the Void (2012)
- Dir. Rama Burshtein
Feat. Hadas Yaron, Yiftach Klein
- A young woman negotiates the fraught rite of arranged marriage in this austere insight into rituals of an Orthodox Hassidic family in Tel Aviv.
Fly Me to the Moon (Un plan parfait) (2012)
- Dir. Pascal Chaumeil
Feat. Diane Kruger, Dany Boon, Alice Pol
- The French churn out another dispensable yet dishy rom–com, this time centred on a woman (Diane Kruger, she of the supermodel looks) who…