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Reality (2015)
Réalité (2015) is the latest film of director Quentin Dupieux. A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.
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White God (2014)
White God (2014) is a Hungarian film by Kornél Mundruczó. It tells the story of thirteen year old Lilly who tries to protect her dog and best friend, Hagen. Eventually her father throws the dog in the streets. Lilly sets out to find Hagen. Meanwhile, Hagen is on a quest on his own,enduring abuses but also…
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Shirley – Visions of Reality (2013)
“Shirley – Visions of Reality” is a film by Gustav Deutsch, released in 2013. Synopsis from official website: 13 of Edward Hopper’s paintings are brought alive by the film, telling the story of a woman, whose thoughts, emotions and contemplations lets us observe an era in American history. Shirley is a woman in America in…
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Keyhole (2011)
In a house haunted with memories, gangster and father Ulysses Pick (Jason Patric) arrives home after a long absence towing the body of a teenage girl and a bound and gagged young man. His gang waits inside his house, having shot their way past police. There is friction in the ranks. Ulysses, however, is focused…
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The Rover (2014)
I’ve rarely watched Australian movies, but most of those that I did, left a strong impression on me. The Rover by David Michod is one of those movies, one of the best made in 2014 as far as I’m concerned. Set in a post-apocalyptic landscape, the film is about Eric (played by Guy Pearce) who follows a band of dangerous…
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Goltzius and the Pelican Company (2012)
Almost all of Peter Greenaway‘s movies are based on a work of art or on the life of an artist and Goltzius and the Pelican Company is not an exception. Inspired by the life of Hendrik Goltzius a Dutch printer and engraver of erotic books, the movie follows him in his attempt to convince the…
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Frank (2014)
When Jon, an aspiring songwriter and wannabe keyboard player, accidentally joins an experimental band for a concert at first and then for recording an album in a remote Irish cottage, little does he suspect what he got himself into. The band is led by the mysterious Frank (played by Michael Fassbender), who was never seen…
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Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi (2013)
Witching and Bitching (Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi) is another madness from the spanish director Alex de la Iglesia, after films like Balada Triste de Trompeta or El Dia de la Bestia. A gang of jewellery thieves dressed up as street performers try to get away with a sack of gold rings. By ill fortune they drive…