Category Archives: World Cinema

WADJDA (Haifaa Al-Monsour, 2012)

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Starring: Reem Abdullah, Waad Mohammed, Abdullrahman Al Gohani You may like this if you like: The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 2011), Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948), The Colour of Paradise (Majid Majidi, 1999) Wadjda … Continue reading

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I WISH (Hirokazu Koreeda, 2011)

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Starring: Hiroshi Abe, Jȏ Odagiri, Koki Maeda You may like this if you like: The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Dardenne, 2011), The Colour of Paradise (Majid Majidi, 1999), Stand By Me (Rob Reiner, 1986) Since their … Continue reading

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THE ABCS OF DEATH (26 Different directors, 2012)

Starring: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal, Kyra Zagorsky, Iván González You may like this if you like: Three… Extremes (Fruit Chan et al, 2004), Destricted (Marina Abramovich et al, 2006), V/H/S (David Bruckner et al, 2012) An anthology consisting of 26 short … Continue reading

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VILLAGE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (Sarah Gavron and David Katznelson, 2012)

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  Starring: The villagers of Niaqornat You may like this if you like: The Peddler (Eduardo de la Serna et al, 2010), Beasts of the Southern Wild (Benh Zeitlin, 2012), Trashed (Candida Brady, 2012) Shot over the course of a … Continue reading

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MICHAEL H – PROFESSION: DIRECTOR (Yves Montmayeur, 2013)

  Starring: Michael Haneke, Juliette Binoche, Isabelle Huppert You may like this if you liked: The films of Micheal Haneke basically An insightful documentary on Austrian auteur Micheal Haneke, showing interviews with the man himself, and showing behind the scenes … Continue reading

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POPULAIRE (Régis Reynard, 2012)

  Starring: Romain Duris, Déborah François, Bérénice Bejo You may like this if you liked: Untouchable (Olivier Nakachi and Eric Toledano, 2011), The Artist (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011), Potiche (François Ozon, 2010) France 1958, Rose Pamphyle (François) decides to leave her … Continue reading

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A HIJACKING (Tobias Lindholm, 2012)

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Starring: Pilou Asbæk, Søren Malling, Dar Salim You may like this if you liked: King’s Game (Nikolaj Arcel, 2004), Zero Dark Thirty (Kathryn Bigelow, 2012), United 93 (Paul Greengrass, 2006) On a usual run in the Indian Ocean, the Danish … Continue reading

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NEIGHBOURING SOUNDS (Kleber Mendonça Filho, 2012)

  Starring: Irma Brown, Sebastião Formiga, Gustavo Jahn You may like this if you liked: Home (Muzaffer Özdemir, 2011), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011), Elena (Andrey Zvyagintsev, 2011) Neighbouring Sounds tells the intertwining lives and … Continue reading

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IN THE HOUSE (François Ozon, 2012)

Starring: Fabrice Luchini, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas You may like this if you liked: Swimming Pool (François Ozon, 2003), Stranger Than Fiction (Zach Helm, 2006), Ruby Sparks (Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, 2012) Germain (Luchini) is a literature teacher … Continue reading

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HOLY MOTORS (Leos Carax, 2012)

Starring: Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, Eva Mendez You may like this if you liked: Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman, 2008), Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997), O Lucky Man (Lindsay Anderson, 1973) So, we need a plot synopsis. Wish me luck! … Continue reading

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