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Rare Exports-a Christmas Tale 122 Points Young Pietari lives with his stern reindeer-herding father Rauno in arctic Finland. On the eve of Christmas, an enormous excavation at a nearby mountain disturbs the locals and captures Pietari's curiosity. When Rauno's raindeer herd is mysteriously slain and the children in town go missing, Pietari realizes that the dig has unearthed the evil Santa Claus of local lore - who no one wants coming to town. Pie ... Item View » |
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Dheepan 131 Points On the losing side of a civil war in Sri Lanka, a Tamil soldier (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) poses as the husband and father of two other refugees in order to escape their ravaged homeland. Arriving in France, the makeshift "family" sets about establishing a new life--only to find themselves once again embroiled in violence on the mean streets of Paris. A heartrending saga of three strangers united by circumstan ... Item View » |
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Dheepan 165 Points On the losing side of a civil war in Sri Lanka, a Tamil soldier (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) poses as the husband and father of two other refugees in order to escape their ravaged homeland. Arriving in France, the makeshift "family" sets about establishing a new life--only to find themselves once again embroiled in violence on the mean streets of Paris. A heartrending saga of three strangers united by circumstan ... Item View » |
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Embrace of the Serpent 153 Points At once blistering and poetic, the ravages of colonialism cast a dark shadow over the South American landscape in EMBRACE OF THE SERPENT, the third feature by Ciro Guerra. Filmed in stunning black-and-white, SERPENT centers on Karamakate, an Amazonian shaman and the last survivor of his people, and the two scientists who, over the course of 40 years, build a friendship with him. The film was inspired by the r ... Item View » |
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Wadjda 102 Points WADJDA is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia. Although she lives in a conservative world, Wadjda is fun loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighborhood boy she shouldn't be playing with, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so th ... Item View » |
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Pelle the Conqueror 153 Points A poor Swedish farmer raises his son in a strange Danish land. Directed by Bille August. Oscar for best foreign-language film.RatingPG-13FormatBlu-ray ... Item View » |
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Pelle the Conqueror 122 Points A poor Swedish farmer raises his son in a strange Danish land. Directed by Bille August. Oscar for best foreign-language film.RatingPG-13FormatDVD ... Item View » |
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Lure 165 Points This genre-defying horror-musical mash-up--the bold debut of Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska--follows a pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters drawn ashore to explore life on land in an alternate 1980s Poland. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly auras make them overnight sensations as nightclub singers in the half-glam, half-decrepit world of Smoczynska's imagining. The director gives fierce teet ... Item View » |
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Gloria 76 Points Gloria is a "woman of a certain age" but still feels young. Though lonely, she makes the best of her situation and fills her nights seeking love at social dance clubs for single adults. Her fragile happiness changes the day she meets Rodolfo. Their intense passion, to which Gloria gives her all, leaves her vacillating between hope and despair -- until she uncovers a new strength and realizes that, in her gold ... Item View » |
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Blue Hawaii 52 Points A pineapple tycoon's rebellious son turns island tour guide with his girlfriend.RatingPGFormatDVD - Widescreen ... Item View » |
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Hitch Hike 122 Points In Northern Italy, WWI has turned into a bloody stalemate. Bogged down in their trenches on a barren highland, the men of an Italian infantry division have been given one objective: retake a commanding height from the enemy. Unfortunately, the tactical ingenuity of general Leone, the unpopular division commander, consists of supplementing frontal attacks against machine-guns with medieval fighting schemes. Hi ... Item View » |
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Frantz 146 Points Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, (1914-1918), Frantz recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's lost generation : Anna (21 year-old Paula Beer in a breakthrough performance), a bereft young German woman whose fiance, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien (Pierre Niney, Yves Saint Laurent), ... Item View » |
