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Volver
Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid, Cruz stars as Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula. To top off the family crisis, her mother Irene returns from the dead to tie up loose ends. The plot originates in…
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The Draughtsman’s Contract
It’s 1694 and a draughtsman, Mr Neville (Anthony Higgins), has been approached by a lady, Mrs Herbert (Janet Suzman), to make twelve detailed drawings of her country house. He agrees, contracting to draw in return for her sexual favours. He makes one further demand everything must remain in the same place while he draws. The…
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Breaking Away
Its the 1970s and Bloomington, Indiana is a campus community with town-and-gown tensions. Four working-class teenage boys leave school and spend one last summer together before making the transition into adulthood and responsibility. Dave (Christopher) is obsessed with becoming an Italian champion bicycle racer and who knows maybe, in the Bloomington Little 500 race, dreams…
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Japanese Story
Geologist Sandy (Collette) takes a Japanese businessman into the Australian outback to show him the mining venture in which he has a share. A detour leads to an unplanned night under the stars and a change in their cool relationship. Just when we anticipate a predictable turn of events, a plot twist eradicates any sense…
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The Colour of Paradise
Its the end of term at the school for the blind in Iran. Mohammed a bright young pupil waits patiently for his father to collect him for the holiday. He waits a long time because his father, a widower, believes having a blind son at home will damage his chances of finding a rich new…
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Shooting Dogs
Released in the US as Beyond the Gates, Shooting Dogs is based on the factual story of a Catholic priest and a young English teacher who are caught in the middle of the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Unlike Hotel Rwanda, which was filmed in South Africa using South African actors, the film was shot in the…
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Kirikou and the Sorceress
omewhere in Africa south of the Sahara, Kirikou is born. Imbued with supernatural precocity he talks to his mother in the womb, is more knowing than adults at birth and braver and faster than the men in the village. And this is just as well because the village needs Kirikou to save them from an…
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The Squid and the Whale
A film about the emotional, financial and practical struggle of a bitter divorce – the relevance of the obscure title only becomes clear towards the end. The story is broadly based on director Baumbach and his brother’s teenage experiences of their parents divorce in Brooklyn in the 80s. Jeff Daniels excels as the insufferable, competitive…
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Dancer in the Dark
Dancer in the Dark is the third film in Lars von Trier’s Golden Heart Trilogy – the previous two were Breaking the Waves (1996) and The Idiots (1998). The story centres on Selma (Björk), a Czech immigrant to the US, who works in a factory but has a degenerative eye condition. She is determined to…
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Cave of the Yellow Dog
This docu-drama from Byambasuren Davaa follows on from the resounding success of her Oscar-nominated Story of the Weeping Camel (2003). If you loved that you’ll love this. The film tells of a Mongolian nomadic herding family, the Batchuluuns, living a traditional life as modernity encroaches. Nansel the eldest daughter brings home a stray dog. The…
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