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  • Wall Engravings
  • Ornamental Hairpin
  • Eight Deadly Shots
  • The Lady from Constantinople

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  • Beating Hearts

    ★★★★

  • Soft Leaves

    ★★★

  • On Falling

    ★★★½

  • Waiting for Happiness

    ★★★★

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  • Fallen Leaves

    Fallen Leaves

    ★★★★½

    Hoera een nieuwe Kaurismaki!

  • A Brighter Tomorrow

    A Brighter Tomorrow

    ★★★

    Een politieke film die de balans opmaakt van de stand van zaken in de wereld van nu. Moretti is de filmmaker die een film maakt tegen de achtergrond van de Russische inval in Hongarije in de jaren vijftig terwijl hij zelf in een existentiële crisis raakt als zijn vrouw na veertig jaar bij hem weggaat. In de slotscène van zijn film zou de hoofdrolspeler zelfmoord plegen, maar dat einde bevalt hem niet meer. Als hij het leven niet naar zijn…

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  • From the Branches Drops the Withered Blossom

    From the Branches Drops the Withered Blossom

    ★★★★★

    Paul Meyer was a committed communist, just like Joris Ivens he went to Spain to fight against Franco. It was therefore not very clever to ask him to make a promotional film about the Borinage. Yet that was what the Belgian government did. Instead of a film to recruit migrants in southern Europe for the mining industry, he made a feature film that showed what life in the region ravaged by economic downturn really was like.
    The film interweaves two…

  • White Clouds

    White Clouds

    ★★★★

    "Sooner or later," a voice-over says, "everyone makes this journey," namely the one following "the death of father." In this case, the journey will be long, acorss the whole Ukraine. Because: "Life is somehow organized in such a manner that the longer we live, the greater the distance separating us from our parents."
    We see two men saying goodbye at an airport, a train rushing through the night, a car driving an endless road through the fields. On the way…

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