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Cupcakes
Eytan Fox, director · Strand Releasing Pages: 1 |
(In Hebrew, with English subtitles)
A bit unrealistic (a bit?), this light comedy is still a lot of fun. It focuses on six best friends, who hang together through thick and thin. Anat is a hard-working baker whose husband leaves her, an act that devastates her. ... |
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Elza
Mariette Monpierre, director · Kino Lorber Pages: 1 |
(In French, with English subtitles)
Why does Elza insist on defying her mother and going to Guadeloupe to seek out her father, who abandoned her in her childhood? Why does Elza, who has just graduated from college, the first in her family to do so, the pride of her hard-working... |
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Finding Fanny
Homi Adajania, director · Finding Fanny Hindi DVD (2014) (Bollywood film) Pages: 2 |
(In Hindi, with English subtitles)
This Indian production is different from the usual Bollywood movies, having none of the trappings of glitzy costumes and big song-and-dance production numbers, while it does have a kind of warped sense of humor that just borders on offensive,... |
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Flamenco, Flamenco
Carlos Saura, director · Music Box Films Pages: 1 |
(In Spanish, with English subtitles)
HCPL has a number of films on dance, from Dirty Dancing to Swan Lake to Pina, but only Carlos Saura brings us the passion and intricacy that flow from flamenco. In this foreign documentary, Saura presents several... |
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Roman de Gare
Claude Lelouch, director · First Run Features Pages: 1 |
(In French, with English subtitles)
This mystery is also something of a thriller and even a comedy, and all three film genres interweave nicely. The movie opens with an escape from a prison. A serial killer is now on the loose. But the main plot revolves around... |
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Tangerines
Zaza Urushadze, director · First Run Features Pages: 1 |
(In Russian, with English subtitles)
Tangerines is a war movie, and as such you can guess that it may not have the happiest of endings. Yet it is still a worthy movie to watch, well made, with solid characters, and a plot full of moral complexity. Ivo and Margus... |
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3 Hearts
Benoit Jacquot, director · Cohen Media Group Pages: 1 |
(In French, with English subtitles)
Marc is a tax collector, a plays-by-the-book bureaucrat, who by chance meets an antiques dealer, Sylvie, on his way home to Paris. A spark flashes between them over a lit cigarette, and a romance is on. They spend the night wandering... |
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White God
Kornel Mundruczo. director · Magnolia Home Entertainment Pages: 1 |
(In Hungarian, with English subtitles)
Keep in mind that what you see on the screen of White God, i.e. hundreds of dogs running in packs through the streets of Budapest, has not been created through special effects. The dogs in the film, the stars of the film, are really... |
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