Diplomafilm is a short film that Béla Tarr made to graduate from Art School, in 1981. It is the predecessor of The Prefab People, with the same plot and the same actors, but with some changes in the plot.Read More »
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Béla Tarr – Diplomafilm (1981)
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KEFF – Taipei Suicide Story (2020)
2011-2020DramaKEFFShort FilmTaiwanPLOT:
A receptionist at a suicide hotel in Taipei, Taiwan forms a fleeting friendship over the course of one night with a guest who can’t decide if she wants to live or die.Read More » -
Adila Bendimerad & Damien Ounouri – La dernière reine AKA The Last Queen (2022)
Adila Bendimerad2021-2030AlgeriaDamien OunouriDrama1516, Legend has it that the king of Algiers had a wife named Zaphira. When the pirate Aroudj Barbarossa arrives to liberate the city from the Spaniards, he is determined to conquer Zaphira as well as the kingdom itself. But is Zaphira willing to let him, or is she plotting for herself?Read More »
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Sang-soo Hong – Kangwon-do ui him AKA The Power of Kangwon Province (1998)
Sang-soo Hong1991-2000ArthouseDramaSouth KoreaThe Power of Kangwon Province traces, one after the other, the trajectories of a man and a woman traveling separately through the mountainous eastern province of South Korea known as Kangwon. Both have left Seoul for the weekend to get some perspective on their lives and to assuage a common sense of loss and loneliness. As they wander, the pair just misses crossing paths with each other. Their separate encounters, however, reveal to the spectator links between the two drifting characters. This resonant work firmly announces Hong’s fascination with chance, the tenuousness of connection and the ability of narrative cinema to orchestrate the two. – DP (Harvard Film Archive)Read More »
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Jérôme Salle – Kompromat (2022) (HD)
Jérôme Salle2021-2030DramaFranceThrillerA French diplomat must escape an FSB plot in Siberia.
Based on incredible true events, Jérome Salle’s gripping new espionage thriller depicts the remarkable story of a French public servant who unwittingly finds himself in conflict with one of the modern era’s most powerful and dangerous forces: Russia’s FSB. Gilles Lellouche stars as Mathieu, a gregarious and dedicated diplomat who accepts a posting to Irkutsk as the head of Siberia’s Alliance Francaise. He hopes the change will be good for his family and struggling marriage, but before long Mathieu’s staging of cultural events and support of artistic expression sees him fall afoul of local authorities. Accused of a terrible crime, he soon realises someone has fabricated a case with Russia’s Federal Security Service – he has been framed. Arrested, imprisoned and isolated, Mathieu has nowhere to turn. Defending himself is impossible, the French authorities are helpless – it seems he has no choice: to try and escape.Read More »
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Béla Tarr – Panelkapcsolat AKA The Prefab People (1982)
1981-1990ArthouseBéla TarrDramaHungaryA husband and wife, drifting apart, reflect on the events leading up to the worst argument of their marriage.
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“It’s the rawness of the film that makes us believe we are unquestionably seeing the truth.”
Reviewed by Dennis SchwartzA heavy going realistic slice of life domestic drama that is filmed in black and white. It’s a followup to Béla Tarr’s other domestic strife tales Family Nest and The Outsider. This one keys in on marital strife. It’s about a struggling young couple’s confrontations and their own inability to freely communicate with each other. Tarr was evidently influenced by the works of Ranier Werner Fassbinder and John Cassavettes.Read More »
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Sébastien Pilote – Maria Chapdelaine (2021)
Sébastien Pilote2021-2030CanadaDramaQuote:
Maria Chapdelaine, a young woman of 16, lives with her family on land they are clearing near the Péribonka River in rural Québec in early 1900. True pioneers, the Chapdelaine family struggles to push back the forest. In a home where even physical exhaustion cannot diminish the warmth of family life, Maria finds herself faced with a deep dilemma. François Paradis, a free-spirited fur trapper and logger, promises Maria to return in spring to marry her, while Lorenzo Surprenant arrives at the farm offering a comfortable existence in an American city, and Eutrope Gagnon, a quiet and determined young farmer has staked a claim on the land next to the Chapdelaine’s. Thrust into the adult world, and juggling with thoughts of land, family and love, Maria will suddenly be forced to choose her future as a woman.Read More » -
Gabriel Range – Death of a President (2006)
2001-2010CrimeDramaGabriel RangeUnited KingdomYears after the assassination of President George W. Bush in Chicago, an investigative documentary examines that as-yet-unsolved crime.Read More »
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Adoor Gopalakrishnan – Naalu Pennungal (2007)
2001-2010Adoor GopalakrishnanDramaIndiaA drama centered around four women at Kuttanad in Kerala’s Alappuzha district.Read More »