2001-2010

  • Alice Wu – Saving Face (2004)

    2001-2010Alice WuComedyQueer Cinema(s)RomanceUSA

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    A romantic comedy about right, wrong and everything in between

    A Chinese-American surgeon, living in Manhattan, is shocked when her single mother shows up on her doorstep pregnant. To help her mom save face and avoid the taboo in the Chinese community of an unmarried woman pregnant, the doctor helps her mom find Mr. Right. Cultures clash in this film that explores culture shock.Read More »

  • Asghar Farhadi – Darbareye Elly AKA About Elly (2009)

    2001-2010Asghar FarhadiDramaIran

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    Quote:
    About Elly, Iranian director Asgher Farhadi’s fourth feature, is a tightly-knit, intense drama about a sunny story gone tragic. Winner of the Best Director award at the Berlinale this year, the film has two distinct moods: light-hearted and good-humoured for the first 45 minutes, sombre and tense for the rest.

    Three young couples, a handful of children, Elly (the nursery school teacher of one of the kids) and Ahmad (a young friend returned from Germany following an unhappy marriage and a divorce from his German wife and vacationing in Iran for ten days) take a holiday on the Caspian Sea. They are carefree, raucous, determined to live it up. But one of the women – Sepideh – has a hidden agenda, an inoffensive one on the face of it: she wants to bring pretty Elly and Ahmad together.Read More »

  • Arnaud Larrieu & Jean-Marie Larrieu – Un homme, un vrai (2003)

    2001-2010Arnaud LarrieuComedyDramaFranceJean-Marie Larrieu

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    While they did not know, Boris, shy apprentice filmmaker and Marilyne, dynamic executive, fall madly in love at a Parisian evening. Five years later, Marilyn, accompanied by Boris and their children went to the Balearic Islands for a business trip. At the same time Boris, tired of his role as man at home, getting ready to leave, Marilyn made ​​a elopement and disappears … Five years later, Marilyne reappears deep in the Pyrenees. Came with a U.S. discover the mysteries of mating grouse group, she realizes that the mountain guide who accompanies is none other than Boris. (Source: after TV5)Read More »

  • João Nicolau – A Espada e a Rosa AKA The Sword and the Rose (2010)

    2001-2010AdventureArthouseJoão NicolauPortugal

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    Manuel flees from his tax debts and ends up on a ship on which some people want to earn their living as pirates. Also on board is a mysterious substance called Plutex that can destroy the world, unless they fall into the wrong hands. This is the prelude to a completely crazy journey that is somewhere between dream, chaos and musicals.Read More »

  • Manoel de Oliveira – O Estranho Caso de Angélica AKA The Strange Case of Angelica (2010)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaManoel de OliveiraPortugal

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    Quote:
    Isaac is a young photographer living in a boarding house in Régua. In the middle of the night, he receives an urgent call from a wealthy family to come and take the last photograph of their daughter, Angelica, who died just a few days after her wedding. Arriving at the house of mourning, Isaac gets his first glimpse of Angelica and is overwhelmed by her beauty. As soon as he looks at her through the lens of his camera, the young woman appears to come back to life just for him. Isaac instantly falls in love with her. From that moment on, Angelica will haunt him night and day, until exhaustion.Read More »

  • Claude Chabrol – La demoiselle d’honneur aka The Bridesmaid (2004)

    2001-2010Claude ChabrolExploitationFranceQueer Cinema(s)Romance

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    A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister’s bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.

    Quote:
    the bridesmaid (First Run) Going to a new Chabrol film these days is like sitting down with an old friend who will tell you another one of his stories. Chabrol has been making films since 1958: the latest of his more than fifty features is The Bridesmaid, and another one has already been finished. He has co-written or co-adapted many of his pictures, and he has also played bit parts in some of them (as well as in the films of others). I have seen a lot of Chabrol’s films, and many others must share my sense that much of my filmgoing life is threaded throughout with his work. He has always been a director who felt that moving ahead was at least as important as polishing a single work.Read More »

  • Costas Zapas – The Last Porn Movie (2006)

    2001-2010Costas ZapasDramaGreece

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    Description: The story of a beautiful teenager girl whose life is turned around when her ex-porn star dad is made (by his producers) to cast her as the lead in his latest x-rated film. A devastating testimony of the rise and fall of Greek family values, an existentialist journey where habit and cruelty are only separated by life and death.Read More »

  • Costas Zapas – Mikres Eleftheries AKA Minor Freedoms (2008)

    2001-2010ArthouseCostas ZapasGreece

    Quote:
    One of the most outstanding directors of auteur cinema, Costas Zapas gained international acclaim with Uncut Family (2004) and The Last Porn Movie (2006). With Minor Freedoms his trilogy on the family is complete. Cineuropa: Minor Freedoms is the title of your latest film. However, in the film there is too little freedom. Your characters seem to have no choice.Read More »

  • Costas Zapas – Uncut Family (2004)

    2001-2010ArthouseCostas ZapasDramaGreece

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    The life of a boy in his adolescence takes a turn when his relationship with his mother and father is exposed.

    Costas Zapas’ debut film.Read More »

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