A mundane affair with two actors, or a strong exercise in building sexual tension? Maybe both.
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Venus in Fur (2013)
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Author / Eternality Tan
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Painted Bird, The (2019)
Not for the faint-hearted, this highly-disturbing and extremely grim film about a boy’s experience of Eastern Europe during WWII packs a powerful, almost surreal punch.
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21 Studio Ghibli Movies on Netflix from 1 Feb 2020
Source: Netflix
For the first time ever, the expansive catalogue of Studio Ghibli films will be subtitled in 28 languages, and dubbed in up to 20 languages. These movies will be available for Netflix subscribers from Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Latin America.
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Ghost Writer, The (2010)
One of Polanski’s finest post-2000s efforts – this is a first-rate old-school mystery-thriller that sees the master filmmaker at the top of his game.
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Marriage Story (2019)
Led by two quite effective leads in Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson, Baumbach’s film about the perils of marriage and the pain of divorce has moments to savour.
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Pianist, The (2002)
One of Polanski’s finest films, and a great WWII Holocaust drama about human resilience, and the beauty and power of music to overcome sheer adversity.
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Chinatown (1974)
Polanski’s greatest accomplishment, and one of the finest American films ever made from the ’70s.
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My Magic (2008)
While We’re Young (2014)
A drama-comedy that tells us painful truths about growing up (and old) through the kind of offbeat comedy that writer-director Noah Baumbach is synonymous with.
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Greenberg (2010)
A passive character study disguised as a romantic-comedy that feels too laidback for it to work convincingly.
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