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  • Adrien Beau – Le Vourdalak AKA The Vourdalak (2023)

    2021-2030Adrien BeauArthouseFranceHorror
    Le Vourdalak (2023)
    Le Vourdalak (2023)

    James Gracey on Eye For Film wrote:
    Based on a 19th century Gothic novella by Aleksey Tolstoy (previously adapted for cinema by Mario Bava as a segment in his 1963 anthology, Black Sabbath), The Vourdalak is the debut feature film from French writer-director Adrien Beau. It tells of the Marquis d’Urfé (Kacey Mottet Klein), an emissary of the King of France who seeks shelter with a family when he becomes lost travelling through Eastern Europe. The family are anxiously awaiting the return of their patriarch, Gorcha, who has gone to capture an outlaw. Before leaving, he forewarned his family that if he does not return within six days, he has been killed and, if he reappears, they must refuse him entry to the house as he has become a vourdalak; a walking corpse returned from the grave seeking the blood of its loved ones…Read More »

  • Claire Denis – Both Sides of the Blade AKA Fire AKA Avec amour et acharnement (2022)

    Drama2011-2020Claire DenisFranceRomance

    A love triangle story about a woman caught between two men, her long-time partner and his best friend, her former lover.Read More »

  • Naomi Kawase – Nanayomachi AKA Nanayo (2008)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaJapanNaomi Kawase

    Quote:
    Nanayo is the latest film from Naomi Kawase, the winner of the Grand Prix at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival with The Mourning Forest and BAFF 2003 with Shara. Making a change from Kawase’s former films, which are all set in her native Nara, Nanayo was shot in a poetic village in Thailand. The movie details the human drama that unfolds as different people of different nationalities happen to come together under one roof in a house in the middle of a forest. Lacking a common language, the art of traditional Thai massage becomes the tool they use to communicate. Read More »

  • Claire Denis – US Go Home (1994)

    1991-2000Claire DenisDramaFranceTV

    In the sixties, in a suburb near Paris, Martine wants to lose her virginity.Read More »

  • Erick Zonca – La vie rêvée des anges AKA The Dreamlife of Angels (1998)

    1991-2000DramaErick ZoncaFrance

    Quote:
    Elodie Bouchez and Natacha Regnier both won “Best Actress” honors at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival in this naturalistic drama about two women alienated from mainstream society. After a trio of short films, this is the feature directorial debut of 41-year-old French filmmaker Erick Zonca. With opening scenes reminiscent of Agnes Varda’s Vagabond (1985), optimistic hobo Isa (Bouchez), with her life in her backpack, has a gritty existence on the road, going from one town to another through northern France, working factory jobs and selling cards. After she loses a garment-factory job, her withdrawn, near-catatonic co-worker Marie (Regnier) lets Isa share space in her Lille living quarters — an apartment actually belonging to a hospitalized mother and daughter.Read More »

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