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Subgenre Sampler

 
Ordeal, TheOrdeal, The (Calvaire) (2004)
Dir. Fabrice du Welz
Feat. Laurent Lucas
Less gruelling than its title suggests, this is a macabre, blackly humorous slice of "redneck gothic" from Belgium, in which a cabaret singer's…
Fear and TremblingFear and Trembling (Stupeur et tremblements) (2003)
Dir. Alain Corneau
Feat. Sylvie Testud
A Belgian translator (Testud) takes a job in the corporate world of Tokyo (a city where she was born and grew up) hoping to rediscover the culture…
Forest for the Trees, TheForest for the Trees, The (Der Wald vor lauter Bäumen) (2003) Aro Favourite
Dir. Maren Ade
Feat. Eva Löbau
Impressively insightful German drama following an idealistic young teacher who starts a job at a Karlsruhe school and contends with her own…
Love Me If You DareLove Me If You Dare (Jeux d'enfants) (2003)
Dir. Yann Samuell
Feat. Marion Cotillard, Guillaume Canet
Two French kids develop an intense relationship through escalating games of "dare" that bond and haunt them through a turbulent teenage and…
Memories of MurderMemories of Murder (Salinui chueok) (2003) Recommended
Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim
A darkly lyrical thriller, set around the true–life hunt for South Korea's first documented serial killer in 1986, during the years of Chun…
Vodka LemonVodka Lemon (2003)
Dir. Hiner Saleem
Feat. Romen Avinian
The residents of a diminishing Armenian village eke out meagre living in this sombre, if delightfully deadpan post–communist…
Suicide ClubSuicide Club (Suicide Circle) (2002)
Dir. Sion Sono
Feat. Ryo Ishibashi, Akaji Maro, Masatoshi Nagase
Off–beat Japanese thriller based on apparently real–life incidents in which groups of high–school children commit mass…
TanguyTanguy (2001) Recommended
Dir. Etienne Chatiliez
Feat. Sabine Azema, Andre Dussollier, Laurent Chouchan
A crowd–pleasing French comedy set around the efforts of a middle–aged couple to surreptitiously get their 28–year–old son to…
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…
Barking Dogs Never BiteBarking Dogs Never Bite (Flandersui gae) (2000) Recommended
Dir. Joon-ho Bong
Feat. Doona Bae
An accomplished black comedy from Korea, which follows an unemployed lecturer's annoyance with the barking of neighbourhood dogs through to its…

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