It may be at times contrived and slow-moving, but this Iranian drama about the impact of a wrongful state execution on a family accumulates enough power to work.
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Ballad of a White Cow (2021)
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Diary for My Loves (1987)
The second film of Meszaros’ ‘Diaries’ is an affecting semi-autobiographical tale of a young Hungarian woman with ambitions of becoming a film director, set against the tumultuous backdrop of the Soviet Bloc.
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Hard to Be a God (2013)
There is probably no other purgatorial cinematic experience like this—a Pasolini-meets-Tarkovsky medieval sci-fi epic that finds stark beauty in all of its carnivalesque filth and revolting excess.
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Hunt, The (2012)
Drags a bit too long for its own good, but Vinterberg’s latest remains to be a fairly compelling drama with fine performances.
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Song of the Sea (2014)
An ethereal animated feature if there ever was one, Irish filmmaker Tomm Moore’s wondrous follow-up to The Secret of Kells is an antidote to the fast and furious world of Hollywood animation.
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Marquise of O, The (1976)
An anomaly in Rohmer’s filmography, this beautiful if minimalist period costume drama about a woman who doesn’t know how she got pregnant feels like a stage exercise rather than an embracing, organic work.
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Writing with Fire (2021)
The only entirely female-run news outlet in India is the subject of this inspiring documentary about the perseverance and courage of a close-knit team of Dalit women (born to the lowest caste) who are challenging deep-rooted traditions, toxic patriarchy and corruption through their firebrand style of justice-based grassroots journalism.
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Jerichow (2008)
The eternal love triangle is given the Hitchcockian treatment in Petzold’s spare but tightly-executed melodrama about outsiders in society.
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Secret of Kells, The (2009)
Tomm Moore’s debut feature is a visual feast that evokes a sense of wonderment even if it may be narratively slight.
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Miami Vice (2006)
Mann’s slick, underappreciated cool fever dream about undercover agents infiltrating a drug trafficking ring is more intelligent and impressionistic a work than any Hollywood studio would dare to admit.
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