Un Prophète Jacques Audiard :: France :: 2008 : 2h35 A young man is being admitted into prison. The scars on his body and face betray a violent past. He can barely read and write. He has no friends. Malik (Tahar Rahim) is 19 years old. Out on the concrete courtyard, he is recruited by [...]
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Bak-Jwi Park Chan-wook :: South Korea :: 2008 :: 2h13 Sang-hyun (Song Kang-Ho) is a modern catholic priest. He is both rational and motivated by a selfless desire to help and to do the right thing. He volunteers for a risky medical experiment to find the cure for a deadly virus, in which he ends [...]
Filed under: Asia, S. Korea | Tagged: Ceci est mon sang, Kim Ok-bin, Park Chan-wook, Song Kang-Ho, Thirst, thirst ceci est mon sang | Leave a Comment »
Humpday Lynn Shelton :: USA :: 2009 : 1h35 Ben (Mark Duplass) is living a quiet life in Seattle with his wife Anna, when his old university friend Andrew (Joshua Leonard)shows up, as the prodigal son. Andrew has been bumming around for ten years in hippy semi-artistic circles, and the two men look at each [...]
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A Deriva Heitor Dhalia :: Brazil :: 2009 : 1h43 The Sao Paulo writer Mathias (Vincent Cassel) and his wife Clarice (Débora Bloch) are at their beach house in the coastal town of Buzios for the summer. They spend their days living a bohemian life with their friends, their three children and the rest of [...]
Filed under: America, Brazil | Tagged: Brazil, Buzios, Heitor Dhalia, Laura Neiva, Vincent Cassel | 2 Comments »
District 9 Neil Blomkamp :: South Africa :: 2009 : 1h50 The unlikely action hero Wikus works for a large international paramilitary organisation called the MNU. The company deals with the affairs of the almost 2 million aliens which were rescued from their stranded ship over Johannesburg, and grouped together in an area named District [...]
Filed under: Africa, South Africa | Tagged: aliens, Johannesburg, MNU, Neil Blomkamp, Peter Jackson, South Africa | Leave a Comment »
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