January 2011
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Agora
31 Foreign Films in 31 Days - Day 9 Agora 2009 Spain ”Set in Roman Egypt in the fourth century A.D. Weisz plays astrologer-philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria, who fights to save the collected wisdom of the ancient world. Her slave Davus is torn between his love for his mistress and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity. (via)”
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El Laberinto del Fauno
31 Foreign Films in 31 Days - Day 8 Pan’s Labyrinth (El Laberinto del Fauno) 2006 Spain ”In 1944 fascist Spain, a girl, fascinated with fairy-tales, is sent along with her pregnant mother to live with her new stepfather, a ruthless captain of the Spanish army. During the night, she meets a fairy who takes her to an old fawn in the center of the labyrinth. He tells her...
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Volver
31 Foreign Films in 31 Days - Day 7 Volver 2006 Spain ”Raimunda and her sister Sole lost their parents in a tragic fire years ago…or did they? Superstitious villagers claim that the girls’ departed mother, Irene, has been wandering around their Aunt Paula’s home. When Irene appears to Sole, she explains that she has returned to set right her daughters’ troubled...
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The Lovely Bones
31 Foreign Films in 31 Days - Day 6 The Lovely Bones 2009 USA “The Lovely Bones is the story of a 14-year-old girl from suburban Pennsylvania who is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from Heaven, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body. (via)”
I’m just really sad. Vote: 10/10
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Goya's Ghosts
31 Foreign Films in 31 Days - Day 5 Goya’s Ghosts 2006 Spain/USA “The painter Goya becomes involve with the Spanish Inquisition when his muse, Ines, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her father, Thomas, comes to him hoping that his connection with Brother Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure the release of his daughter. (via)”
I’m overwhelmed by anger and...
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La Science des rêves
31 Foreign Films in 31 Days - Day 4 The Science of Sleep (La Science des rêves) 2006 France “Life seems to be looking up for shy and withdrawn Stephane when he is coaxed to return to his childhood home with the promise of a job in the mundane world of copy setting. Wildly creative, his fanciful and sometimes disturbing dream life constantly threatens to usurp his waking world. Stephane...
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Le Pacte des Loups
31 Foreign Film in 31 Days - Day 3 Brotherhood of the Wolf (Le Pacte des Loups) 2001 France “In 1765 something was stalking the mountains of central France. A ‘beast’ that pounced on humans and animals with terrible ferocity. Indeed they beast became so notorious that the King of France dispatched envoys to find out what was happening and to kill the creature. No one is...
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Paris Je T'aime
31 Foreign Films in 31 Days - Day 2 Paris I Love You (Paris Je T’aime) 2006 France “Celebrated directors from around the world have come together to portray Paris in a way never before imagined. With each director telling the story of an unusual encounter in one of the city’s neighborhoods, the vignettes go beyond the ‘postcard’ view of Paris to portray aspects of the city ...
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona 2008 USA/Spain “Two young American women, Vicky and Cristina come to Barcelona for a summer holiday. Vicky is sensible and engaged to be married; Cristina is emotionally and sexually adventurous. In Barcelona, they’re drawn into a series of unconventional romantic entanglements with Juan Antonio, a charismatic...
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