Mix-and-match from
the AroVideo archives!
Subgenre Sampler
A Ma Soeur! (For My Sister, aka Fat Girl) (2001)
- Dir. Catherine Breillat
Feat. Anais Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero de Rienzo… - An artfully impassive study of sexual predation that takes place during the summer holidays of two teenage sisters – the dumpy Anais Reboux and…
Amelie (2001)- Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Feat. Audrey Tautou, Mathieu Kassovitz - A charming romantic comedy stamped with the purely cinematic style of dir. Jean–Pierre Juenet, who here remixes intricate set pieces, editing…
Princess Blade (Shurayuki-Hime) (2001)- Dir. Shinsuke Sato
- Post–apocalyptic Japanese samurai action adapted from a graphic novel, employs a stark visual style to convey its tale of a disturbed young…
Read My Lips (Sur Mes Levres) (2001)- Dir. Jacques Audiard
Feat. Vincent Cassel, Emmanuelle Devos - Sturdy, unconventional French thriller about an insecure, partially–deaf office clerk who tries to help an irascible ex–con integrate…
Day I Became a Woman, The (2000)- Dir. Marziyeh Meshkini
Feat. Fatemeh Cherag Akhur, Hassan Nebhan, Shahr Banou Sisizadeh - A trio of strong metaphorical tales that outline three aspects of “a woman’s lot” in contemporary Iran, with humour and cinematic…
Girls Can't Swim (Les filles ne savent pas nager) (2000)- Dir. Anne-Sophie Birot
Feat. Isild Le Besco, Karen Alyx, Pascale Bussieres… - Moody French coming–of–age drama about two girls, one who lives in the coastal town in Brittany, the other from the city. Best…
Me You Them (Eu Tu Eles) (2000)- Dir. Andrucha Waddington
Feat. Regina Case, Lima Duarte, Stenio Garcia - Set in the arid hinterlands of Brazil, this serio–comic study of rural polyandry has Regina Case (Brazil’s Oprah Winfrey) hitch up three…
All About My Mother (1999)- Dir. Pedro Almodovar
Feat. Cecilia Roth - Almodovar's "celebration of mother and womanhood" has been hailed as something of a departure for the director, though in fact all of his (beloved)…
Venus Beauty Institute (Venus Beauty) (1999)- Dir. Tonie Marshall
Feat. Nathalie Baye, Audrey Tautou - A modest beauty salon is the setting for this wry ensemble piece about the vagaries of womanhood, with an engagingly eccentric collection of clients…
An Autumn Tale (1998)- Dir. Eric Rohmer
Feat. Marie Riviere, Beatrice Romand, Alain Libolt - Completing his suite of films based on the four seasons, dir. Rohmer provides another mellow, seemingly unplotted comedy, in which Rhone valley…
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