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The Decalogue
(1989)
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A profound observation on the trials and tribulations of everyday life, reflected in complex ways -- direct and abstruse -- but all fundamentally, and infallibly, human.
Posted May 01, 2021
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A haunting portrait of a national soul struggling against the rootlessness, estrangement, and transience cultivated by its turbulent and irreconcilable past.
Posted Jul 02, 2020
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Ankur
(1974)
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Shyam Benegal creates a sublime and provocative examination of hypocrisy, economic disparity, and the social status of women in Ankur.
Posted Mar 20, 2012
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The Strange Case of Angelica
(2010)
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Provides de Oliveira with a broad canvas to explore his recurring themes of doomed love, the relationship between image and reproduction, and cultural extinction.
Posted Oct 19, 2010
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Go Go Tales
(2007)
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Ferrara creates a polarizing and blunt, yet astute and unexpectedly compassionate allegory for the inextinguishable creative spirit in all its chaos, volatility, isolation, hope, and exhilaration.
Posted Apr 23, 2009
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Film About a Woman Who...
(1974)
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Life elevated, or reduced, to the hyperbolic artifice of hackneyed drama, to clichd cinematic constructions.
Posted Jul 21, 2006
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Three Times
(2005)
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Three Times presents a series of vignettes, each chronicling a series of understated encounters between two lovers played by same actors Chang Chen and Shu Qi, as their destinies weave through complex socio-political terrain.
Posted Dec 24, 2005
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Capote
(2005)
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Posted Oct 08, 2005
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The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
(2005)
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Cristi Puiu's The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is a thoughtful and incisive slice-of-life comedy on the impersonalization (and desensitization) of institutional health care.
Posted Sep 27, 2005
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Eros
(2004)
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Distilling the essence of the innate intimacy in their unspoken ritual, Wong retains the imbued sensuality of In the Mood for Love and 2046 to create an equally understated and voluptuous tale of transfigured desire.
Posted Aug 09, 2005
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The Best of Youth
(2002)
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Posted Jul 12, 2005
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Clean
(2004)
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A sincere, well-intentioned, and technically proficient, but uncharacteristically trite and formulaic portrait of a drug-addicted, washed up celebrity and recent widow.
Posted Mar 22, 2005
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2046
(2004)
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Posted Dec 19, 2004
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Saraband
(2003)
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Rather than a nostalgic swan song, Bergman has created another provocative chapter in his enduring expositions into the most fundamental human need for connection.
Posted Dec 18, 2004
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The Religion Hour (My Mother's Smile)
(2002)
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...a richly textured, incisive, and provocative examination of outmoded faith, breakdown of family, and spiritual desolation.
Posted Jun 22, 2004
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Born Into Brothels
(2004)
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Perhaps the singularly most humbling and remarkably inspiring film I have ever seen in a long time on selflessness, compassion, instilling hope, and human decency.
Posted Jun 15, 2004
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Persons of Interest
(2004)
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"A potent denunciation of abuse of power, state-sanctioned discrimination, and unchallenged fear mongering."
Posted Jun 15, 2004
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The Corporation
(2003)
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The film provides an intelligent and incisive discourse on the need for moral and ethical responsibility, vigilance, awareness, and informed activism.
Posted Jun 15, 2004
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Deadline
(2004)
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...unsentimental, yet profoundly moving tale of moral idealism, public service, and personal conscience.
Posted Jun 15, 2004
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From the Life of the Marionettes
(1980)
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A provocative and haunting portrait of disconnection, repression, emotional violence, and intimacy.
Posted May 22, 2004
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Genealogies of a Crime
(1997)
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A sublime and effervescent exposition on the interconnection between art and life, the foibles of rationalized, amoral behavior, and the innate recursiveness of human history.
Posted May 18, 2004
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Tilai
(1990)
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a distilled, lucid, and incisive cautionary tale of obdurate pride, self-righteous rationalization, and archaic traditions.
Posted Apr 20, 2004
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Since Otar Left
(2003)
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A refreshingly optimistic, humorous, captivating, and deeply humanist portrait of perseverance and family.
Posted Oct 22, 2003
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Last Year at Marienbad
(1961)
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...a singular, audacious, and iconic exposition on the malleability of reality, time, existence, and memory.
Posted Aug 29, 2003
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The Island
(1960)
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...visually distilled, minimalist, and understated, yet compelling and profoundly expressive portrait of human struggle, perseverance, and survival.
Posted Aug 23, 2003
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Rikyu
(1989)
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...a serenely contemplative and formally exquisite exposition on aesthetic philosophy, refinement, and spiritual unity.
Posted Aug 20, 2003
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Nargess
(1992)
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An understatedly provocative examination of crime, poverty, and marginalization in a culturally ingrained, codified society.
Posted Aug 20, 2003
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The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
(1979)
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An indelibly haunting, endlessly fascinating, and maddeningly abstruse composition on Pirandellian ambiguity and the inherent subjectivity of perspective.
Posted Jul 22, 2003
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My Terrorist
(2003)
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...a personal documentary of reconciliation and closure that is both honest, fearless, and profoundly inspiring.
Posted Jun 24, 2003
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles
(1975)
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The film provocatively captures the unarticulated tragedy of estrangement, loneliness, and disconnection.
Posted Jun 17, 2003
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Peppermint Candy
(2000)
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The film serves as an incisive and affecting portrait of the uncalculated human toll of the painful, and often traumatic reconstruction of a war torn nation.
Posted May 27, 2003
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The Day the Sun Turned Cold
(1994)
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an exquisite, deeply affecting, and provocative examination of filial duty, estrangement, guilt, and longing.
Posted May 13, 2003
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Dust in the Wind
(1987)
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An understated, contemplative, and elegiac portrait on the ephemeral nature of time, youth, love, and existence.
Posted Apr 15, 2003
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Rebels of the Neon God
(1993)
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...articulates a profound and compassionate anthem for a lost and marginalized generation foundering in the inertia of technology and modernization.
Posted Apr 09, 2003
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Odd Obsession
(1959)
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A darkly comic, delirious, and irreverent satire on aging, sexuality, and narcissism
Posted Feb 25, 2003
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Iran, Veiled Appearances
(2002)
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...an understatedly powerful document of a country at the cusp of profound change.
Posted Feb 06, 2003
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Demonlover
(2002)
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Despite Assayas's admirable exploration of a difficult and complex subject... the film suffers from a meandering, preposterous, and schizophrenic plot.
Posted Feb 04, 2003
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From the Other Side
(2002)
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...a visually rigorous, uncompromising, and quietly affecting examination of the problem of illegal immigration.
Posted Jan 29, 2003
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Mother Joan of the Angels
(1961)
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...a provocative and haunting portrait of man's eternal spiritual struggle against the indefinable nature of evil, sin, and corporeal existence.
Posted Jan 29, 2003
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Matador
(1986)
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...a bold and provocative allegory for the self-destructive cultural legacy of machismo, bravura, and ritualistic violence.
Posted Jan 07, 2003
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Sisters of the Gion
(1936)
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...exposes the imbalancing entropy and transience of an existence bound in the underlying artifice of mercantile love.
Posted Nov 27, 2002
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Ten
(2002)
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An insightful, universal window into the everyday complexities of contemporary existence
Posted Nov 27, 2002
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I Can't Sleep
(1994)
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An evocative, richly textured, and deeply disturbing contemporary ballad on the pervasive nature of violence and the difficulty of assimilation.
Posted Nov 27, 2002
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8 1/2
(1963)
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Inevitably, Guido is as much a reflection of Fellini as he is of ourselves: striving for greatness, only to achieve the ordinary and familiar... with episodes of momentary abstraction in between.
Posted Nov 27, 2002
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No Fear, No Die
(1990)
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Denis reveals the underlying influence of masculine competition and aggression in the everyday conduct of business and human transactions.
Posted Nov 27, 2002
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Code Unknown
(2000)
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Intelligently constructed, compelling, provocative, and relevant observation on social inequity, the untenability of cultural assimilation, and the failure of communication.
Posted Nov 27, 2002
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Goodbye South, Goodbye
(1996)
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An intoxicating elegy of motion and stasis, modernization and tradition, hope and nihilism.
Posted Nov 27, 2002
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Ivan's Childhood
(1963)
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Tarkovsky uses sharp, contrasting scenes of light and darkness to visually delineate between the idealization of a normal life and its seeming elusiveness in the hopelessness of war.
Posted Nov 27, 2002
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The Dream of Light
(1992)
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An understated observation of the inevitable passage of time, and the irrepressible longing of the soul to capture an elusive moment of nature's fleeting beauty.
Posted Nov 27, 2002
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Rebellion
(1967)
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A sublime and haunting examination of conformity, inhumanity, and abuse of power.
Posted Nov 27, 2002
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