Showing posts with label Drama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drama. Show all posts
9/08/2013

"My Blueberry Nights" by Wong Kar Wai (2008)

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My Blueberry Nights is the first film shot in English by Wong Kar Wai.  Elizabeth, a girl with a broken heart, leaves New York to sta...
9/02/2013

"Manderlay" by Lars Von Trier (2005)

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Manderlay is the second instalment of Lars Von Trier's thought-provoking trilogy "USA - Land of Opportunities". The sto...
7/06/2013

"The Iron Giant" by Brad Bird (1999)

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The Iron Giant tells the story of the fall into Earth of an alien giant robot, and his relation with a naughty child who lives with hi...
6/15/2013

"Chaotic Ana" by Julio Medem (2007)

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Ana (Manuela Vallès), a young hippy talented painter living in Ibiza, is discovered by Justine (Charlotte Rampling) , an Arts Patron  who...
6/02/2013

"Garage" by Lenny Abrahamson (2007)

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Garage is a movie about the life of Josie, a simple-minded good-hearted somewhat-autistic gas-station caretaker who craves affection a...
3/31/2013

"Crash" by Paul Haggis (2004)

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A single event in somebody's life can have repercussions in many others. That is the point of departure of this post-modern holist...
3/27/2013

"Mr. Nobody" by Jaco Van Darmael (2009)

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** Warning - This review may contain spoilers. I recommend watching the movie and then coming here, especially if the ending intrigues y...
3/03/2013

"Caramel"‎ by Nadine Labaki (2007)

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‎Caramel is a Lebanon-France co-production with a charming story of female love, friendship and ageing. The story focus on the love lives...
1/13/2013

"The Lovely Bones" by Peter Jackson (2009)

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The movie is based on Alice Seabold's eponymous book, which I read a few years ago and I absolutely loved. If you have not read the ...
11/04/2012

"Antichrist" by Lars Von Trier (2009)

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Antichrist tells the story of a couple's grief after the death of their child, their progressive alienation from reality, and their d...
9/21/2012

"Cold Souls" by Sophie Barthes (2009)

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Cold Souls is a comedy of the absurd with some surrealist and existentialist touches, and a philosophical query on the nature of the sou...

"Nobody Knows" by Hirokazu Koreeda (2005)

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Nobody Knows tells the story of a group of four siblings before and after their abandonment by their mother. The movie is magical and po...
9/08/2012

"Irreversible" by Gaspar Noé (2002)

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Irreversible is a very confronting raw and violent French movie that tells the story, in reverse chronological order, of a serious of vio...
8/26/2012

"Little Miss Sunshine" by Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris (2006)

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 Little Miss Sunshine is a road movie about a dysfunctional family trying to take their seven-year-old Olive to an interstate beauty page...
8/05/2012

"Agora" by Alejandro Amenábar (2009)

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A biopic loosely based on the story of the great Late-Roman female Philosopher, Astronomer and Mathematician Hypatia of Alexandria. Mo...
7/29/2012

"Intimacy" by Patrice Chéreau (2001)

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Intimacy is a European co-production directed by French director Patrice Chereau in his first English speaking feature, also set in the ...
7/21/2012

"Let the Right One In" by Tomas Alfredson (2008)

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A Swedish romance and horror film based on the eponymous novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist, who also wrote the script.  Let the Right One...
7/15/2012

"Match Point" by Woody Allen (2005)

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Match Point is a UK-USA-Ireland-Russia Co-production, mostly shot in London, and directed by Woody Allen. The story revolves about a love...
7/05/2012

"Mary and Max" by Adam Elliot (2009)

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Web of the Movie A wonderful Australian independent plasticine movie that tells the story of a life-long mail relationship between Max J...