Subgenre Sampler
Foreign Cinema: 3342 Films to Buy & Rent
Lost Kisses (I baci mai dati) (2010)
- Dir. Roberta Torre
Feat. Carla Marchese, Donatella Finocchiaro
- A 13–year–old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word…
Love Crime (2010)
- Dir. Alain Corneau
Feat. Kristin Scott Thomas, Ludivine Sagnier, Olivier Rabourdin
- Kristin Scott–Thomas sinks her teeth into the bitchiest role of her career as a ruthless, high–flying executive whose attempts at…
Love Like Poison (2010)
- Dir. Katell Quillévéré
Feat. Clara Augarde, Michel Galabru, Stefano Cassetti…
- A potent variation on an oft–told theme, this carefully observed drama considers the fraught adolescence of a 14–year–old girl torn…
Mammuth (2010)
- Dir. Gustave Kervern, Benoit Delepine
Feat. Gerard Depardieu, Yolande Moreau, Isabelle Adjani…
- Slyly subversive comic tale with Gerard Depardieu in fine fettle as a retiree battling to secure his state pension.
Man From Nowhere, The (Ajeossi) (2010)
- Dir. Jeong-beom Lee
Feat. Won Bin, Sae-ron Kim
- Korean action movie following a former special agent who is living a quiet life as a pawnshop owner after his wife dies in a tragic accident, when a…
Marriage and Other Disasters (Weddings and Other Disasters) (2010)
- Dir. Nina Di Majo
Feat. Fabio Volo, Margherita Buy, Luciana Littizzetto…
- Likeable rom–com with romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic mismatching and shenanigans.
Martino's Summer (L'estate di Martino) (2010)
- Dir. Massimo Natale
Feat. Treat Williams
- Italian drama set in the summer of 1980 and following the adventures of a 15 year old boy, who has a romance with a girl from the North, and learns…
Monga: Gangs of Taipei (Báng-kah) (2010)
- Dir. Doze Niu
Feat. Ching-Tien Juan, Mark Chao, Ju-Lung Ma
- Pungent youth drama set in 1980s Taiwan, after the end of military dictatorship, concerns the intertwined fate of five troubled friends.
Mozart's Sister (2010)
- Dir. Rene Feret
Feat. Marie Feret, Marc Barbe, David Moreau…
- Exuberant romp through pre–revolutionary France following the life of Mozart's talented older sister who was soon sidelined as her family's…
Mutant Girls Squad (2010)
- Dir. Noboru Iguchi, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Tak Sakaguchi
Feat. Yumi Sugimoto, Tak Sakaguchi
- Japan's outlandish splatter–comedy phase reaches its logical end point with this three–chapter collaboration between the most notorious…