Subgenre Sampler
Drama > Foreign Cinema: 1792 Films to Buy & Rent
Since Otar Left (2003)
- Dir. Julie Bertuccelli
Feat. Dinara Droukarova, Nino Khomassouridze, Ester Gorintin
- Touching and wryly comic tale set in post–Communist Georgia, in which a mother, daughter and granddaughter partly survive through a romantic…
Singing Behind Screens (Cantando dietro i paraventi) (2003)
- Dir. Ermanno Olmi
Feat. Bud Spencer, Davide Dragonetti
- Visually opulent Italian epic directed by Ermanno Olmi (THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS) set in coastal China and centred on a plucky widow who takes her…
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring (Bom yeoreum gaeul gyeoul geurigo bom) (2003)
- Dir. Kim Ki-Duk
Feat. Oh Young-Soo, Kim Ki-Duk, Kim Young-Min…
- As the seasons pass through many years, the inhabitants of a floating temple on a woodland pond – a young boy and his wizened mentor –…
Springtime in a Small Town (2003)
- Dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang
- Long–awaited followup to THE BLUE KITE for dir. Zhuangzhuang (who was banned from filmmaking for three years afterwards), constructing a…
Story of Marie and Julien, The (Histoire de Marie et Julien) (2003)
- Dir. Jacques Rivette
Feat. Emmanuelle Beart, Jerzy Radziwilowicz
- Meandering and hypnotic tale of the supernatural from French master Jacques Rivette, which begins in the apparently nondescript world of a Parisian…
Swimming Pool (2003)
- Dir. Francois Ozon
Feat. Charlotte Rampling, Ludivine Sagnier, Charles Dance
- A beguiling psychological thriller, in which a British mystery–novelist (Rampling) travels to her publisher's holiday house in rural France for…
Thousand Months, A (Mille Mois) (2003)
- Dir. Faouzi Bensaïdi
Feat. Fouad Labied, Nezha Rahile
- A rare international release from Morocco, this portrays languid months of existence for a boy who, following various family crises, moves with his…
Time of the Wolf (Temps du loup, Le) (2003)
- Dir. Michael Haneke
Feat. Isabelle Huppert, Beatrice Dalle, Olivier Gourmet
- Chilling, disconcerting post–apocalyptic nightmare that begins with Isabelle Huppert and children fleeing into a barren French countryside,…
Touch of Spice, A (Politiki kouzina) (2003)
- Dir. Tassos Boulmetis
Feat. George Corraface
- Spices build bridges in this touching account of a Greek astrophysicist and his spice merchant grandfather, conjoined by that now–familiar…
Travellers and Magicians (2003)
- Dir. Khyentse Norbu
Feat. Tsewang Dandup, Sonam Lhamo
- A puckishly effective road movie from the Himilayan kingdom of Bhutan, this follows a young villager who gets the opportunity to travel forth from…