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Harem (1985)

July 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Harem
Year: 1985
Runtime: 113 minutes
Country: France
Language: English
Subtitles: Chinese (hard-subbed)
Genre: Drama

Director: Arthur Joffé

Cast:
Nastassja Kinski … Diane
Ben Kingsley … Selim
Dennis Goldson … Massoud
Michel Robin … Monsieur Raoul
Zohra Sehgal … Affaf (as Zohra Segal)
Juliette Simpson … Zelide
Rosanne Katon … Judy
Norman Chancer … L’ingénieur américain
Maurice Lamy … Mehmet
Henri Sarde … Le réceptionniste
Ibrahim Moussa … Le frère
Teco Celio … L’ouvrier italien
Art Malik … Tariq

Plot/Synopsis:

There is a world of difference between the hectic but aimless love-life of a smart, young New York girl and the calm, slow-moving and lascivious existence in the lavish harem of a Muslim oil sheik. Diane didn’t expect to find herself making the comparison … until she was kidnapped by Selim to become a total prisoner of his passion … and he expected to find her just as submissive as the other veiled inmates of his desert castle!

Their encounter – when it finally comes – is a romantic, dramatic and enlightening experience for both of them!

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Ruby & Quentin (2003)

July 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Tais-toi!
Year: 2003
Runtime: 94 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: Chinese (hard-subbed) & English (.srt)
Genre: Comedy | Crime

Director: Francis Veber

Cast:
Gérard Depardieu … Quentin
Jean Reno … Ruby
Richard Berry … Vernet
André Dussollier … Le psychiatre prison
Jean-Pierre Malo … Vogel
Jean-Michel Noirey … Lambert
Laurent Gamelon … Mauricet
Aurélien Recoing … Rocco
Vincent Moscato … Raffi
Ticky Holgado … Martineau
Michel Aumont … Nosberg
Leonor Varela … Katia / Sandra
Loic Brabant … Jambier
Arnaud Cassand … Bourgoin
Edgar Givry … Visinet

Plot/Synopsis:

After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money before they do.

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Hierro (2009)

July 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Hierro
AKA: Meridan Island
Year: 2009
Runtime: 94 minutes
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English & Chinese (hard-subbed)
Genre: Mystery | Thriller

Director: Gabe Ibanez

Cast:
Elena Anaya … María
Bea Segura … Laura
Mar Sodupe … Tania
Andrés Herrera … Antonio
Miriam Correa … Julia
Kaiet Rodríguez … Diego
Javier Mejía … Matias
Hugo Arbues … Mateo
Raquel Salvador … Elena
Jorge Lobo … Capitan de barco
Jon Arino … Forense
Tomas del Estal … Ex-marido
Miriam Martín … Nina
Pepe Gonzalez Rubio … Hombre del camping

Plot/Synopsis:

After believing she spotted her son in a traveling caravan, a distraught mother returns to the island of El Hierro, where son disappeared three years previously.

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Un soir, un train (1968)

July 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Un soir, un train
AKA: One night… a train
Year: 1968
Runtime: 1 hour, 25 minutes
Country: France | Belgium
Language: French
Subtitles: English (.srt) | Romanian (.sub)
Genre: Drama | Fantasy | Mystery

Director: André Delvaux

Cast:
Yves Montand … Mathias
Anouk Aimée … Anne
Adriana Bogdan … Moira
Hector Camerlynck … Hernhutter
François Beukelaers … Val
Michael Gough … Jeremiah
Senne Rouffaer … Elckerlyc
Domien De Gruyter … Werner
Jan Peré … Henrik
Nicole Debonne … La jeune fille
Wilfried Coppens … Le garçon du train
Greta Van Langhendonck … La fille du train
Patrick Conrad … Le maître d’hôtel
Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg … La grand-mère
Denise Zimmerman … L’étudiante

Plot/Synopsis:

Mathias is a Belgian linguist, living with French theatre producer Anne. After a quarrel about moral questions, they take a train to attend a congress. While Mathias sleeps, Anne disappears. The train stops in the middle of the country and Mathias gets off the train with an older man, Hernhutter, and a young one, Val. The train moves off without them being able to catch it up. They will find a village, but cannot get any help because they do not understand a word of what the inhabitants say…

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Humanity (1999)

July 26, 2010 By 1 Comment

Original title: Humanité
Year: 1999
Runtime: 148 minutes
Country: France
Language: French
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama | Mystery

Director: Bruno Dumont

Cast:
Emmanuel Schotté … Pharaon De Winter
Séverine Caneele … Domino
Philippe Tullier … Joseph
Ghislain Ghesquère … Police Chief
Ginette Allegre … Eliane
Daniel Leroux … Nurse
Arnaud Brejon de la Lavergnee … Conservationist
Daniel Petillon … Jean, the cop
Robert Bunzi … English cop
Dominique Pruvost … Angry worker
Jean-Luc Dumont … CRS
Diane Gray … British traveller
Paul Gray … British traveller
Sophie Vercamer … Worker
Murielle Houche … Worker

Plot/Synopsis:

In a town near Lille, melancholy police superintendent Pharaon De Winter lives with his mother. An 11-year-old girl has been raped and murdered. Over the next week, De Winter investigates and grieves, his face nearly expressionless. He bikes, he gardens. He accompanies his neighbors, Joseph and Domino, to dinner and to the seaside; he even observes them in vigorous if not rough coitus. For Domino, sex seems her way of connecting. Does she fancy Pharaon? A plowed field, the sea, Pharaon’s flowers, the pudenda of Domino and of the ravaged girl – this mix of images of beauty, evil, and possibility assaults Pharaon as he tries to do his job and hold on to his humanity.

Bruno Dumont has a lot of compassion for his characters, which is evident in the way that he observes their daily lives and the conflicts that they are faced with. Explicit sexual scenes may offend some viewers. L’humanité won the Grand Prize of the 52nd Cannes Film Festival, 1999. Actress Severine Caneele shared the Best Actress award with Emilie Dequenne of Rosetta and Emmanuel Schotte won the Best Actor award.

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Farsan (2010)

July 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Farsan
AKA: 800 bullets
Year: 2010
Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes
Country: Sweden
Language: Kurdish | Swedish
Subtitles: English | Swedish | Danish | Norwegian | Finnish (.sub/.idx)
Genre: Comedy

Director: Josef Fares

Cast:
Torkel Petersson … Jörgen
Jan Fares … Aziz – Farsan
Hamadi Khemiri … Sami
Juan Rodríguez … Juan
Anita Wall … Edith
Nina Zanjani … Amanda
Jessica Forsberg … Lotta

Plot/Synopsis:

Some movies deal with weightily with philosophical issues around life, relationships, aging and death, while others take the approach of examining those dicey topics more simply, by showing us the lives of ordinary people doing ordinary things, as if we’re a fly on the wall of their lives.

The charming, simple Swedish film Farsan, directed by Josef Fares, takes the latter approach to mostly good effect. Aziz (Jan Fares, the director’s father and a frequent actor in Fares’ films) is a confident, genial older gentleman, widowed ten years but still in love with his dead wife; his life revolves around his adult son, Sami (Hamadi Khemiri), Sami’s expectant wife Amanda (Nina Zanjani), and his impending first grandchild. Aziz smiles and charms his way around the nooks and crannies of his comfortable life and routine.

Amanda and Sami love Aziz, but because they are his primary source of both comfort and social life, they’re also feeling a bit cramped by his blissfully unaware and constant presence in their lives. Neither Sami nor Amanda want to hurt Aziz’s feelings — he really is a very nice, kind-hearted, courtly and old-fashioned sort of gentleman — and so they perpetuate the cycle that’s driving them crazy by never saying what they really think. Amanda, nearing the end of her rope, suggests to Sami that perhaps if Aziz would start dating, they might get a little space without hurting his father’s feelings…. (abridged from Movie City News)

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Cowards (2008)

July 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Cobardes
Year: 2008
Runtime: 85 minutes
Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: Chinese (hard-subbed) | English (.srt)
Genre: Drama | Teen

Director: José Corbacho | Juan Cruz

Cast:
Eduardo Garé … Gabriel
Eduardo Espinilla … Guille
Elvira Mínguez … Merche
Antonio de la Torre … Joaquín
Lluís Homar … Guillermo
Paz Padilla … Magdalena
Frank Crudele … Silvano
Blanca Apilánez … Tutora
Ariadna Gaya … Carla
Javier Bódalo … Chape
Gorka Zubeldia … Leo
Albert Baulies … Jan
Carla Tous … Ruth
Francisco Vidal … Bedel
Jordi Boixaderas … Javier

Plot/Synopsis:

Gaby is 14 years old and hates school. He knows that every day he goes, Guille and his gang will make his life impossible: humiliation in front of his classmates, mocking and even beatings. The rest of the class doesnt react out of fear.

Neither his family nor his teachers are aware of what is happening. Gaby takes comfort both in Carla, a friend from school whom hes in love with, and Silverio, an old pizza maker.

Alongside the school and adolescent life, the life of the adults around them is also tarnished with fear. Gabys father is also terrified under the constant threat of being fires by his boss; his mother is fearful that her family is going to crumble and passively observes what is happening with her husband and son. Guilles father is an important businessman who disguises his fear of failure by projecting superiority and disdain; his mother is afraid to admit that her family is not perfect and looks the other way.

Gaby is fed up and decides to take action. He cant think of any more alternatives so he decides to listen to the advice of the pizza maker: an eye for an eye,.

Gaby is finally free, but he has paid a high price for it: he has learned that the World is a jungle where the strongest ones survive and there is no place for the weak. He has lost his first true love, Carla.

To live like a coward is the easiest solution in a world dominated by fear.

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Ask Your Heart (2010)

July 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Yüregine sor
Year: 2010
Runtime: 113 minutes
Country: Turkey
Language: Turkish
Subtitles: English (.sub/.idx)
Genre: Romance

Director: Yusuf Kurçenli

Cast: Tuba Büyüküstün, Kenan Ece, Hakan Eratik

Plot/Synopsis:

Ask Your Heart tells the true story of a love facing a barrier as big as itself.

The people of Eastern Black Sea not only fought with wild rivers, rough seas and precipices, they also faced a religious discrimination over centuries.

Hundred years ago two young people of different religions became victims of the law of their time. Mustafa’s family had to hide they were Christians, to cope with statutory obligations of Ottoman Empire.

Two young people had to hide their love over high mountains behind the clouds. When the clouds scattered the secret that had been hidden for centuries was revealed.

Social conditions are stronger than their love. In order to stand up for their love, they will need to become legends…

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Lover of the Monster (1974)

July 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Original title: Le amanti del mostro
Year: 1974
Runtime: 1 hour, 23 minutes
Country: Italy
Language: Italian
Subtitles: English (hard-subbed)
Genre: Horror

Director: Sergio Garrone

Cast:
Klaus Kinski … Dr. Alex Nijinski
Katia Christine … Anijeska Nijinski
Marzia Damon
Stella Calderoni
Romano De Gironcoli
Alessandro Perrella
Carla Mancini
Luigi Bevilacqua
Bruno Arié
Osiride Pevarello … Polanski
Amedeo Timpani … Il giudice
Pasquale Toscano

Plot/Synopsis:

This retelling of the “Frankenstein” story stars Klaus Kinski as a scientist experiencing marital troubles with his beautiful wife. After finding his scientist father’s diaries, Kinski begins delving into ways to reanimate the dead through a machine that uses cadavers to bring people back to life. But will the experiments drive him mad as they did his father

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The Class (2007)

July 17, 2010 By 1 Comment

Original title: Klass
Year: 2007
Runtime: 99 minutes
Country: Estonia
Language: Estonian
Subtitles: Chinese (hard-subbed) | English (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director: Ilmar Raag

Cast:
Vallo Kirs … Kaspar
Part Uusberg … Joosep
Lauri Pedaja … Anders
Paula Solvak … Thea
Mikk Magi … Paul
Riina Ries … Riina
Joonas Paas … Toomas
Kadi Metsla … Kati
Triin Tenso … Kerli
Virgo Ernits … Tiit
Karl Sakrits … Olav
Liina Joonas
Saara Kadak
Kaspar Kannelmae
Brita Kikas

Plot/Synopsis:

One of several global dramas that reportedly culled direct inspiration from the infamous Columbine High School Massacre (and evidence, given its geographic origins, of that tragedy’s global impact), Ilmar Raag’ s harrowing Estonian drama Klass unfolds in an Eastern European high school overrun by psychotic bullies. Amid this morass, 16-year-old Joosep (Part Uusberg) suffers from constant, sadistic belittlement and humiliation. One of his torturers, newcomer Kaspar (Vallo Kirs), soon changes sides and offers to protect the victim, as a kind of bodyguard, but in time, per human nature, the bullies also turn him into a pariah. One act of systematic humiliation too many soon pushes the two boys over the edge and sets the stage for an unremitting bloodbath of vengeance.

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