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Breathless
South Korea, 2009, 130 min.
Song-hoon is a violent, foul-mouthed enforcer for local gangster Man-shik. But things change when an unlikely bond develops between him and wayward schoolgirl, Han Yeon-hee. This semi-autobiographical, often brutal look at cyclical violence shows how love might just redeem a lost soul.... more
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Dogtooth
Greece, 2009, 96 min.
In this shocking satire on middle-class mores, the über-controlling parents of three teenage offspring plot to preserve them from worldly contamination. But the introduction of a lusty female security guard into their secluded life acts like a spark to tinder.... more
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Dzi Croquettes
Brazil, 2009, 95 min.
Dzi Croquettes is a revealing documentary about a Brazilian dance and theater group resembling an all-male, 1970s version of the Ziegfeld Follies. Banned by the ruling military dictatorship, they used their empowering sexuality to revolutionize the gay movement worldwide.... more
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Landscape No. 2
Slovenia, 2009, 90 min.
A killer representing an ugly, unresolved and nearly forgotten chapter of post-WWII history confronts a cynical, amoral Everyman in Landscape No. 2. Played realistically yet with a wink to Grand Guignol theatrics, this audacious, superbly crafted, contemporary horror film spiced with humor.... more
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The Last Days of Emma Blank
Netherlands, 2009, 90 min.
Emma Blank is waiting for her death. So are her servants. The staff of Blank's isolated country home has long submitted to her venomous attitude and irrational whims with an eye on an inheritance, but the truth about this way-offbeat household will slowly be revealed in this pitch-black comedy.... more
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The Shadowless
Turkey, 2009, 97 min.
Unfolding in a timeless village rife with supernatural beliefs, mysterious disappearances and untimely deaths, this mesmerizing film offers an ambitious adaptation of a multilayered literary work by Hasan Ali Toptas, "the Kafka of the East," and plays like an Anatolian Twin Peaks.... more
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Transmission
Hungary, 2009, 90 min.
A mesmerizing dystopian drama set in a world in which all the screens have stopped functioning. Television stations don't broadcast, computer monitors are empty, the entire telecommunication industry is gone.... more
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