Puberty and school bullying conflate in this somewhat peculiar feature debut with elements of horror as a schoolgirl discovers her body changing in distressing ways.
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Tiger Stripes (2023)
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De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022)
This startlingly eye-opening documentary brings us deep into the human body, finding abstract beauty in its grotesque sights of tissue and organs, yet at the same time, it is also about the sounds of life and death—within and outside of bodies as surgeons chatter, equipment beep and hospitals bustle.
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Beyond Utopia (2023)
An extraordinary Oscar-worthy documentary about North Koreans who have defected, with startlingly real footage of escape and told in such a highly-suspenseful and intense manner that may even put the finest thrillers to shame.
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Driver, The (1978)
Stripped to its bare essentials, this Melville-esque car chase thriller sees Ryan O’Neal and Bruce Dern go head-to-head as a getaway driver and dirty detective respectively.
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Viva Erotica (1996)
A zany if somewhat overzealous romp as this darkly entertaining meta-film about a struggling director (played by a fantastic Leslie Cheung) forced to make a Cat III erotic movie, features Shu Qi in a breakout role.
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Battle Royale (2000)
Students are forced to kill each other by law in this Asian Extreme cult classic par excellence, still as provocative more than 20 years on in its themes about youth, rebellion and authoritarianism.
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Drift (2023)
Chen’s third feature, shot in picturesque Greece with Cynthia Erivo, mostly works as a finely-drawn take on an unlikely friendship between a woman who fled her war-torn country and a somewhat passionless tour guide.
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Three Colors: White (1994)
Kieslowski’s often overlooked middle installment of the famed trilogy may be one of his most mischievous if perverse films as a downtrodden, recently divorced Polish man plans an elaborate revenge plot against his French ex-wife.
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Family Life (1971)
Polish master Zanussi’s early work is such a uniquely irresistible and besetting experience, about a man who returns to his ancestral home after many years only to find that his family is still as dysfunctional.
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Love Eterne, The (1963)
As much a cultural touchstone as it is an exemplar of the Huangmei opera genre, this classic of classics sucks you into its overt melodramatism and a heartrending story of everlasting love as a woman dressed as a man in order to attend university meets another man.
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