The film’s unconventional narrative structure and free-flowing dialogue stand out as Rohmer effortlessly delivers a relationship-spying story in the guise of a romantic comedy.
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Aviator’s Wife, The (1981)
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Sacro GRA (2013)
Interesting and dull at the same time, this ‘documentary movie’ operates as a series of vignettes of people who live next to an enormous ring road around Rome.
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Casino (1995)
Scorsese’s underappreciated 3-hour crime epic, about a high-end Las Vegas casino being run by an organised crime syndicate, is one of his most riveting films.
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Summer’s Tale, A (1996)
The romantic complications of a young man and three women are laid bare in this naturalistic and minimalist entry from Rohmer’s ‘Tale of the Four Seasons’ series.
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Girlhood (2014)
Sciamma’s nuanced if immersive coming-of-age drama fizzles out somewhat by the end, but her strong compassion for her characters remains resolute throughout.
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Do the Right Thing (1989)
A cultural touchstone in modern American cinema, Spike Lee’s breakthrough tell-it-as-it-is treatment of racism is even more sobering to view more than 30 years later.
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‘Til Madness Do Us Part (2013)
Wang Bing’s extraordinary observational documentary shows us what it’s like in a mental asylum in China—for four gruelling hours, we find ourselves full of human empathy and incapable of rendering judgment.
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Beguiled, The (2017)
Sofia Coppola’s latest is a disquieting look at gender politics with a strong Southern Gothic undercurrent of sexual tension.
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On the Rocks (2020)
Sofia Coppola returns to contemporary urban filmmaking in this charming indie about marriages and affairs as a young mother and her womanising father try to make sense of the trajectory of their current lives.
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Somewhere (2010)
A gentle if slight film from Sofia Coppola that sees her going for a low-key character study of a burned-out Hollywood actor.
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