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Warm Water Under a Red BridgeWarm Water Under a Red Bridge (2001) Recommended
Dir. Shohei Imamura
Feat. Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu
Nourishing sex fable in which Japanese everyman Koji Yakusho, down and out after losing his wife and job, discovers the joys of making love to a…
What Time Is It There?What Time Is It There? (2001) Recommended
Dir. Ming-liang Tsai
Feat. Kang-sheng Lee, Cecilia Yip, Jean-Pierre Leaud
Three forlorn individuals bide their time between grief, ennui and loneliness in this minimalist – and unusually talky – masterpiece from…
Wind Will Carry Us, TheWind Will Carry Us, The (2001) Recommended
Dir. Abbas Kiarostami
Feat. Behzad Dourani
Carried by the dir.’s deadpan comic instincts and more minimally poetic, this quasi–fable concerns (what seems to be) a documentary crew who…
Y Tu Mama TambienY Tu Mama Tambien (And Your Mother Too!) (2001) Aro Favourite
Dir. Alfonso Cuaron
Feat. Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna
Acclaimed universally (and here in NZ beset with censorship wrangles), this Mexican joyride, taken by two teenage boys and an older woman, is indeed…
101 Reykjavik101 Reykjavik (2000) Recommended
Dir. Baltasar Kormakur
Feat. Baltasar Kormakur, Victoria Abril
An endearingly skewed yet unexpectedly poignant sex comedy moored in the 30–below temperatures of the Icelandic winter, about a…
Amores PerrosAmores Perros (Love's a Bitch) (2000) Aro Favourite
Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Feat. Emilio Echevarria, Gael Garcia Bernal, Goya Toledo
Bursting forth with passion, cinematic mettle and pungent local flavours, this debut feature, a triptych of stories set in polyglot Mexico City, is…
Beijing BicycleBeijing Bicycle (2000)
Dir. Wang Xiaoshuai
Feat. Lin Cui, Bin Li, Yuanyuan Gao
Set in the milieu of urban cycle–couriers, this retells De Sica’s BICYCLE THIEF on the teeming streets of Beijing where country–boy Lin…
BlackboardsBlackboards (2000)
Dir. Samira Makhmalbaf
Feat. Said Mohamadi, Behnaz Jafari
Set in politically unstable Kurdistan, this followup to THE APPLE by dir. Makhmalbaf, traces the adventures of a group of teachers searching the…
Bread and TulipsBread and Tulips (2000) Recommended
Dir. Silvio Soldini
Feat. Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Marina Massironi
When 40–something housewife Licia Maglietta is deserted by her family during vacation, she seizes on a chance to roll the romantic dice once…
Circle, TheCircle, The (2000) Aro Favourite
Dir. Jafar Panahi
Feat. Brano Holicek, Pavlina Mourkova, Jeri Pecha
Banned its native Iran, this compendium of linked stories circumscribes the various oppressions women must suffer under that country’s strict…

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