Words have little meaning but faces bear the truth in Antonioniโs remarkable treatise on modern alienation and ennui as it follows a well-to-do couple facing a sinking marriage on an afternoon and night out.
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Words have little meaning but faces bear the truth in Antonioniโs remarkable treatise on modern alienation and ennui as it follows a well-to-do couple facing a sinking marriage on an afternoon and night out.
A sensually shot if also subtly erotic take on religion and desire, handled with deft skill by the great Melville.
Brandoโs only directorial effort is truly exceptionalโa soulful revenge Western with stunning picturesque imagery and a commitment to exploring and subverting the ethos of the genre.
Extramarital affairs donโt get any more enigmatic and impenetrable than Resnaisโ hypnotic Venice Golden Lion-winning anti-romance that boldly discards structure and narrative, leaving only unreliable memories and narrators.ย
This early Godard sees Anna Karina at her most bewitching (those soul-staring eyes that break the fourth wall!) as the auteur reinvents the โrom-comโ with wilful abandon and artistry.
Demyโs first feature is a modest, warm-spirited take on the bittersweet nature of past romances, transient acquaintances and the desire to find greener pastures.ย
Quite a strong debut by Pasolini in the tradition of neorealism, with a harsh, fatalistic tone.
This Silver Berlin Bear winner is one of the great tear-jerking melodramas from the Golden Age of Korean cinema, depicting the struggles of a working-class family as they find their self-respect and dignity constantly being attacked.ย
A solid WWII melodrama by the great Korean master Kim Ki-young about an impossible romance between a Korean soldier forced to serve the Japanese imperial army, and a Japanese woman with radical thinking of her own.