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Bi, Don’t Be Afraid, Bi!
Vietnam, 2010, 92 min.
Winner of several festival awards, including two International Critics Week’ prizes at the Cannes Film Festival and Best Film at Hong Kong’s Asian Film Festival, this autobiographical tale centers around life in a dysfunctional family seen through the eyes of six-year-old Bi. (Please note: contains ... more
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Born to Suffer
Spain, 2010, 112 min.
A gentle, bittersweet dramatic comedy of female solidarity and subterfuge set in rural Spain. It centers on 72-year-old Flora, a spinster fearful that her relatives won’t care for her in her old age, and who marries her faithful female housekeeper in order to keep her covetous nieces at bay.... more
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The Double Hour
Italy, 2009, 95 min.
A psychological thriller with fascinating story structure. Sonia meets Guido at a speed dating event; they click, fall in love and become a couple--until a surprising violent event interferes. A thrilling latter day film noir.
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Henry of Navarre
Germany, 2010, 153 min.
Protestants and Catholics at war in 16th-century France serve as the backdrop for this rousing epic—replete with bloody battles, bawdy sex, and delicious royal-court duplicity—tracing the rise of the protestant Henry, who went on to become the country’s beloved King Henry IV.
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Juan
Denmark, 2010, 102 min.
Retribution closes in on the serial seducer who has bedded and abandoned thousands of women in this thrillingly cinematic version of W.A. Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni. One of the composer’s most darkly seductive scores is performed here by Concerto Copenhagen, under the baton of Lars Ulrik Mortensen,... more
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Madly in Love
Belgium, 2010, 90 min.
A frank and funny romantic comedy about an obstinate Antwerp family, filmed in a quirkily inventive style, Madly in Love might recall It’s Complicated with its liveliness, beautiful settings, and spicy love scenes.... more
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A Somewhat Gentle Man
Norway, 2010, 103 min.
A droll, highly satisfying black comedy about our painful shortcomings, a tribute to less than perfect sex, and a worldwide campaign against people of petty exactness. After completing his prison sentence, Ulrik has to cope with his old gang, his ex, a few women, and a snitch.
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Thailand, 2010, 114 min.
Be adventurous and experience this prize-winning film's beguiling Buddhist rhythms, mythical underpinnings and mesmeric images that include animism, apparitions, out-of-body experiences, and a beautiful princess having sex with a catfish. Winner, Golden Palm, Cannes Film Festival.
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