READ MY LIPS
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  Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 115 minutes |
Virtually deaf, Carla (Devos) is a bored office worker, constantly dumped on by her colleagues and just about at the end of her tether when she hires the paroled ex-con Paul (Cassel) as her assistant. Then she loses it completely…
Posted on October 4, 2004 by Rich Cline
LOLA AND BILLY THE KID (Lola + Bilidikid)
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  Year Released: 1999 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 93 minutes |
It starts like Priscilla, Queen of the Desert with colourful belly dancing drag queens in a seedy nightclub…
Posted on September 16, 2004 by Rich Cline
I COULD READ THE SKY
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  Year Released: 1999 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 86 minutes |
This is such an art film that it’ll appeal to a very small audience–it’s far too dull and introspective for today’s so-called “sophisticated” moviegoers!
Posted on September 16, 2004 by Rich Cline
WHAT TIME IS IT THERE
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: R Running Time: 116 minutes |
Hsiao-Kang (Lee) has just buried his father (Miao) and is starting to worry about his mother (Lu) and her increasingly obsessive superstitious beliefs…
Posted on September 14, 2004 by Rich Cline
BREATHLESS (A BOUT DE SOUFFLE)
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Year Released: 1961 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 87 minutes |
Michel is so much in love that he hardly notices the police inspector (Boulanger) closing in on him, and Patricia finds it hard to resist Michel’s affections, even as she begins to realise the truth about him…
Posted on August 29, 2004 by Rich Cline
ROBERTO SUCCO
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  Year Released: 2000 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 124 minutes |
Based on the true story of a killer who went on a rampage through France, Switzerland and Italy, this film is startling and unsettling…
Posted on April 19, 2004 by Rich Cline
YOUNG ADAM
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  Year Released: 2003 MPAA Rating: NC-17 Running Time: 100 minutes |
IN LIMITED RELEASE! Ewan McGregor delivers a frightening against-type performance in this dark but extremely well made Scottish drama. This is a finely crafted film for grown-ups only … and it’s hard to remember the last time we had one that was this provocative and moving…
Posted on April 18, 2004 by Rich Cline
THE FAT GIRL (À Ma Soeur!)
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  Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 93 minutes |
Sex is something they discuss at length, and soon Elena decides to lose her virginity with the Italian law student Fernando (de Rienzo), her summer boyfriend…
Posted on April 6, 2004 by Rich Cline
I’M GOING HOME (Je rentre à la maison)
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
His agent (Chappey) keeps trying to find him new work, such as in a TV crime series, but Gilbert doesn’t want any of this sex and violence nonsense…
Posted on March 5, 2004 by Rich Cline
L’AFRANCE
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 90 minutes |
Relationships are edgy and unpredictable, and the ending is startlingly authentic in its open-handed treatment of such an emotionally charged subject…
Posted on March 5, 2004 by Rich Cline
DIVIDED WE FALL
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 120 minutes |
And soon Josef and Marie have more reason than most to be nervous: They are hiding thier old friend David (Kassai), a Jewish concentration camp escapee. And their nerves are frayed even more by their nosey collaborator friend Horst…
Posted on March 3, 2004 by Rich Cline
THE ESORT (Mauvaise passe)
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  Year Released: 1999 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 100 minutes |
After a nasty incident he befriends sandwich shop manager Tom (Townsend), who moonlights as a male escort. Soon Pierre gets in the business as well, even falling in love with a coworker (Walker) who also has trouble connecting her, er, nightlife with her real-life responsibilities…
Posted on February 27, 2004 by Rich Cline
PLATFORM
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
It’s rather impenetrable for Western audiences (there are no clues to how much time is passing), very symbolic (the title refers to what it feels like to wait for a train that may never arrive), and often somewhat self-indulgent (an hour could be cut without changing much). But it’s also fascinating, original, profoundly beautiful filmmaking…
Posted on February 26, 2004 by Rich Cline
DEVDAS
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Year Released: 2001 MPAA Rating: Unrated Running Time: 127 minutes |
In a brothel he meets a kindly courtesan (Dixit) who becomes his doting guardian angel, even though her social status, even farther below him than Paro’s, prevents her from ever having hope of a real romance…
Posted on February 25, 2004 by Rich Cline
BEIJING BICYCLE
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Year Released: 2002 MPAA Rating: PG-13 Running Time: 113 minutes |
Several characters just refuse to speak, leaving infuriating gaps in the story and dialog, which lead to misunderstandings and more serious problems…
Posted on February 23, 2004 by Rich Cline