Category: International
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In Bed and Sofa (1927), Liuda and Kolia live a mostly happy life in Moscow, with the housewife Liuda longing for more out of life, while her husband works as a stonemason. Their usual routine is disrupted when Kolia’s friend Volodia moves into their apartment due to a housing shortage, and Volodia’s kind behavior towards…
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Akira Kurosawa pulls off a perfect Japanese adaptation of Shakespeare in this beautiful classic. Hunters stand on rolling hills in the Japanese countryside. One finds three boars in the distance. They mount. They pursue. And soon, all three are dead. The main conflict in Akira Kurosawa’s Ran is not political, or even dynastical. It is,…
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In Stalinist Poland, composer Wiktor discovers Zula, a young woman who aspires to be a performer after receiving probation for killing her father. After she successfully auditions for a role in the ensemble, she and Wiktor fall in love, but their love is put to the test after Wiktor leaves for Paris. Many years later,…
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In this repulsing yet alluring look at the decay of the German nobility at the dawn of Nazism, a patriarch’s influence wanes as his power-hungry descendants eat each other for the final scraps. Every now and then, there’s a film that comes along that both intrigues and repulses you. It can be hard to form…
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