Lust and personal resolve collide in Rohmer’s first feature in colour, lensed with warmth and sensuality by Days of Heaven’s Nestor Almendros.
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Collectionneuse, La (1967)
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Author / Eternality Tan
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Dheepan (2015)
This Cannes Palme d’Or winner is a masterful, humanistic attempt at capturing the issue of immigrants, through the perspective of a ‘family’ of Tamils at a transitory point in their lives.
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Rust and Bone (2012)
Audiard’s direction of his actors is excellent, but the film is marred by his weak handling of tone.
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Entranced Earth (1967)
An essential work of the Brazilian Cinema Novo movement, Rocha’s film may be difficult to get into at times, but its electrifying visual style and bold commitment to deconstructing politics and class remain revered.
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Rashomon (1950)
The film that launched Japanese cinema into serious international reckoning, and quite simply one of Kurosawa’s very best.
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Stray Dog (1949)
A solid early work by Kurosawa in what is a clever cat-and-mouse chase that leads to an emotional climax.
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Joint Security Area (2000)
Park’s breakthrough success feels like a cinematic page-turner, set in the context of an investigation on a shootout incident at the border separating North and South Korea.
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Handmaiden, The (2016)
A sexually-explicit Korean lesbian film that proves to be invitingly perverse under the hands of visual master Park Chan-wook.
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Death of Nintendo (2020)
The four young teens at the center of Raya Martin’s new film provide a strong reason to smile in this fun and invigorating coming-of-age comedy.
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Pickpocket (1998)
As China urbanises, a man stagnates in this masterful and revelatory feature debut by Jia Zhangke, shot in 16mm and featuring non-professional actors.
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