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The Circus
USA, 1928, 72 min.
A rarely seen masterpiece featuring two of the greatest comic sequences ever filmed. The lovable Tramp finds work as a circus janitor, only to be drafted in to replace the wayward headliners. With a score composed by Chaplin at age 79, this is one of the must-see events of the festival.... more
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Cold Showers
France, 2005, 103 min.
Working class teen Mickael's two big passions are judo and his curvy girlfriend Vanessa with whom he enjoys an athletic sex life. But when the couple meet judo team newcomer Clément a ménage a trois develops. An erotic and complex love story between three adolescents from different social background... more
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Cowboy Del Amor
USA, 2005, 88 min.
This exquisite documentary follows self-proclaimed "cowboy cupid" Ivan Thompson as he plays matchmaker to American bachelors looking for Mexican brides. Academy Award nominated director Michèle Ohayon (Colors Straight Up) deftly turns what could have been a kitschy portrayal into a complex, m... more
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A Driver for Vera
Russia, 2005, 115 min.
Spectacular, crowd-pleasing Russian comedy-drama, from the Oscar®-nominated maker of The Thief. In 1962, on the Black Sea coast of Crimea, a secret power struggle between the army and KGB forms the backdrop to a torrid love triangle... more
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Elsa & Fred
Spain, 2005, 107 min.
Two mainstays of Spanish language cinema, China Zorrilla and Manuel Alexandre, play aging widowers who rekindle their passions for love with a visit to the Trevi Fountain in Rome, a landmark from Fellini's La Dolce Vita, in this touching romantic comedy.... more
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The Fever
Italy, 2005, 123 min.
In this box office hit, Mario, a young building surveyor, decides to follow his dream to open a nightclub with a group of friends. He endures numerous problems and misjudgements that an unexpected love finally makes right. It's a passionate declaration of love for Italy and enthusiasm for life.... more
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Heading South
France, 2005, 106 min.
French filmmaker Laurent Cantet (Time Out/) returns with another devastating look at the psychological fears and desires reflected in a commercial trade, in this case prostitution in 1970s Haiti, where three middle-aged women compete for the possession of a local gigolo.... more
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Housewarming
France, 2005, 96 min.
A madcap, mile-a-minute French comedy starring Carole Bouquet as a liberal lawyer and single mom who hires Colombian immigrants to rehab her home so her new lover can't move in. As the adage states, "Remodeling…you know when it starts but not when it will be over…"... more
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Idiot Love
Spain, 2005, 94 min.
Catalan director Ventura Pons returns with an erotically transgressive, occasionally tender and frequently very funny tale of sexual obsession that focuses on a sad-sack 30-something teacher who falls hard for an upwardly mobile woman. Refreshing and quirky in equal measures. ... more
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Imagine Me and You
United Kingdom, 2005, 94 min.
Imagine a romantic-comedy in the vein of Four Weddings and a Funeral, and then substitute Piper Perabo for Hugh Grant and Lena Headley for Andie McDowell/Julia Roberts… This debut feature is a witty lesbian take -- full of classically English one-liners and comic set pieces -- on the middle-c... more
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In His Hands
France, 2005, 121 min.
A doomed romance with a possible serial killer drives the suspense in this thriller. The accomplished filmmaker and her able cast provide rewards in the delicacy with which they sketch the way a woman in a marriage neither happy nor unhappy drifts into an affair, and persists despite clear indicatio... more
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Kamataki
Canada, 2005, 111 min.
Claude Gagnon's deceptively simple story about a young, depressed Canadian who is sent to visit his uncle in Japan, is sublimely riveting, complex and erotic. The uncle is a master potter, and the depiction of the Kamataki process of marathon firing is exhilarating! Best Director, Montreal Film Fest... more
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La Petite Jérusalem
France, 2005, 97 min.
A young Orthodox Jewish woman puts her faith in the Torah and the classic works of European philosophy until neither suffices in the face of sexual desire. This keenly acted film juggles big issues, frank contextual nudity, the matter-of-fact specter of anti-Semitism in contemporary France, and more... more
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The Life That I Want
Italy, 2005, 126 min.
True emotion as well as jealousy and manipulation mark the love story of two actors on the set of a historical drama. The script becomes so close to their reality that it hurts them deeply, yet, at the same time, they have difficulty differentiating between their real and "reel" lives.... more
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Love + Hate
United Kingdom, 2005, 84 min.
Winner - New Voices/New Visions Award
A modern Romeo and Juliet love story set across racial divides in a northern British town, Love + Hate finds Naseema and Adam wrestling with their undeniable mutual attraction. The young couple embark on a passionate journey of self-discovery. B... more
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Marock
France, 2005, 101 min.
Seventeen-year-old Rita is smitten with the flashy Youri who she meets at a club in Morocco. But Youri is Jewish and Rita's brother, with his more devout approach to Islam, is watching her every move. This debut feature captures teenage passions set against the Casblanca playground of the rich where... more
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The Married Woman
India, 2005, 130 min.
Calcutta of the 1960s, with its vintage cars and sophisticated cafes, gives a nostalgic elegance to this romantic and tender love story. Although they grew up together Lolita and Shankhar only discover their intense love for one another when another suitor for Lolita's hand arrives. ... more
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The Master
Poland, 2005, 110 min.
Lyrically moving back and forth between fantasy and reality, Piotr Trzaskalski's road movie follows a Russian knife-thrower with supernatural powers known as "The Master" as he travels the Polish countryside putting on a one-man show and collecting affectionately rendered passengers. An entertaining... more
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My Bollywood Bride
USA, 2006, 90 min.
Alex fell in love with the girl next door. Trouble is, 'next door' is India and 'the girl' is Bollywood's biggest film star.
"My Bollywood Bride" tells the story of Alex, a Venice Beach copy writer that dreams of being a novelist who meets and romances Indian beauty, Reena, while she is on a vacat... more
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Paheli
India, 2005, 141 min.
Drawn from a classic folk tale where a ghost falls in love with a beautiful girl and substitutes for the husband who leaves on his own wedding night, this exuberant and colorful film is set in the exotic Rajasthan of vibrant dances and camel races.... more
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Play
Chile, 2005, 106 min.
In a contemporary city, which could be anywhere, a couple search for love but never quite seem to meet. The film's pop visual style is unique, and it succeeds in helping us search for clues in a world that denies they exist. Best New Director, Tribeca Film Festival.... more
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Sex and Philosophy
Tajikistan, 2005, 106 min.
On his 40th birthday, a handsome choreographer invites his four lovers to a dance class that he teaches. As he evokes memories of how each affair evolved and diminished, he realizes that the more the contemporary world has become sexually oriented the farther it has moved away from love…... more
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Stolen Life
China, 2005, 91 min.
When Yan-ni starts college she hopes to embark on a new life. Once at school, she meets Muyu and falls in love with him. She doesn't reallize that Muyu began an intricate deception that will lead to the loss of her child and the future she believes in. Best Film, Tribeca Film Festival.... more
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Tempesta
United Kingdom, 2005, 102 min.
A young American art appraiser finds himself drawn into a complex web of mystery, intrigue and betrayal set against the ghostly backdrop of the Venetian waterways when he is sent to Italy to authenticate three priceless paintings belonging to the famous Galleria dell'Academia.... more
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Three Dollars
Australia, 2005, 115 min.
Eddie has a wife, a sick child, a childhood sweetheart, a strong sense of moral courage and exactly three dollars to his name. He's a decent man in an indecent world where there's a thin line between taking a stand and living on the street. From the director of the 2002 PSIFF favorite The Bankmore
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Three Times
Taiwan, 2005, 121 min.
Director Hou Hsiao-hsien was voted the world's most important filmmaker of the 1990s by Film Comment and Three Times marks a return to the interlocking narratives spanning Taiwanese history that won him worldwide acclaim. It focuses on the relationship between two lovers (played by the same a... more
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Time Off
Chile, 2005, 98 min.
Shot entirely with three mini-DV cameras, Time Off is an unabashedly fun, unpredictable film that thrives on cinematic exploration. Directors Schweitzer and Solís use an arsenal of playful devices including sound effects, unconventional camera angles and American music to explore the breakup ... more
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To Paint or Make Love
France, 2005, 99 min.
Set in the Alps, staring two giants of the French cinema, this delightfully ironic film takes an ordinary retired couple and dares to confront them with questions about love, desire, sex and art. Both transgressive and innocent, erotic and gentle, it's a funny and beautiful mixture of fantasy and re... more
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Underground Game
Brazil, 2005, 109 min.
Winner - Special Jury Prize, New Voices/New Visions
Based on a beguiling story by Julio Cortazar, Underground Game offers a playful and romantic vision of a young man who follows attractive women in the Sao Paulo metro hoping they'll take a preordained path of his choosing through t... more
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White Countess
United Kingdom, 2005, 136 min.
In this Merchant Ivory production set in pre-WWII China, we follow the chaste courtship between a Russian countess (Natasha Richardson) fallen on rough times and a former American Ambassador (Ralph Fiennes). Written by the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro (“The Remains of the Day”), the film is full of assur... more
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Wrong Side Up
Czech Republic, 2005, 108 min.
Woe to be Peter, a morose Prague airport worker who hasn't yet gotten over his ex-girlfriend... though good to be Peter, whose side job is getting paid by his neighbors to watch them have sex. This latest from the Czech Republic's master of eccentric humanism bubbles over with warmth and peculiarity... more
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