A milestone in European art cinema, and an intentionally futile exercise in finding meaning in our seemingly meaningless existence.
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L’avventura (1960)
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Executioner, The (1963)
Black sardonic humour abounds in this tale about the farce of capital punishment when a man is forced to marry an executioner’s daughter and has to become one himself in order to keep the apartment allotted by the state.
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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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Good Morning (1959)
Light-hearted and mildly amusing, Ozu’s most accessible late-career work explores the generation gap and quirks of communal communication amid a rise in consumerism in a modernising Japan.
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2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967)
A housewife prostitutes herself to earn more money to enjoy life’s luxuries in Godard’s somewhat messy ‘anything goes’ takedown on consumerism, as he scathingly—and self-reflexively—goes off tangent in matters of language, the Paris city, love and more.
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Zatoichi’s Conspiracy (1973)
This final installment caps the long-running series with a more dignified drama-focused entry as Zatoichi once again tries to seek justice for the oppressed.
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Howards End (1992)
It may seem formal and stately in its visual and narrative posturing, but this splendid Merchant-Ivory production achieves a rare sense of intimacy and grace as it tells a story of connections and consternations across different social classes.
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Graduation (2016)
An effortless if restrained effort by Mungiu that compellingly captures the state of Romanian society through one father’s series of moral dilemmas.
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45 Years (2015)
An excellent Charlotte Rampling plays one half of a couple who have been together for more than four decades as they face a marital crisis that might prove to be insurmountable in Haigh’s delicate take on the meaning of love as refracted by secrets from the distant past.
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Nights of Cabiria (1957)
A Fellini classic featuring Giulietta Masina with arguably her greatest performance, this spirited tale of a prostitute who desires to change her life is at once heartbreaking and life-affirming.
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