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Through the eyes of Stan, a sensitive dreamer who is growing detached and numb from the psychic toll of working at a slaughterhouse, we observe the black Los Angeles ghetto of Watts in the mid-1970s. Frustrated by money problems, Stan finds respite in moments of simple beauty: the warmth of a coffee cup against his cheek, slow dancing with his wife in the living room, holding his daughter. Killer of Sheep offers no solution to Stan's world, merely a presentation of his life and those around him;
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Lulu is a streetwise narcotics cop with a hatred of drugs in this hard-hitting account of the Paris drug squads' attempts to clean up the streets. The gritty neo-realist intensity shown by Tavernier was a result of experiencing the real-life side of drugs squad activities. A documentary style police drama/policier.
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A haunting and highly emotive film about the tough lives of Sicilian villagers, in a small fishing community, in the face of exploitative businessmen. The images of isolation and frustration capture the villagers' plight. Beautifully shot, Visconti's realist vision encapsulates the whole film. Produced by the Italian Communist Party.
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This 2008 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or nominee takes us away from the increasingly clichéd violent side of life in a Brazilian favela and views the life of four half-brothers being raised by a single mum. One aspires to football stardom, one to being saved by Christianity, one works as a courier, but is drifting toward crime, and the youngest yearns to drive a bus. The mum, pregnant with her fifth child, works as a cleaner for a woman in a middle class area of Sao Paolo. An energetic mixture
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Ahmad is a former one hit Pakistani rock singer who eeks out a living selling coffee and doughnuts to morning commuters from his push cart in midtown Manhattan. Ahmad supplements his income by selling bootleg porn DVDs, carefully saving his money to afford a place where he might be able to live with his estranged young son, and in this tough, humiliating existence Ahmad carries himself with a stoic dignity. "Man Push Cart" is a touching and thoughtful look at a way of life few of us know or inde
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Certification12
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Visconti's stunning feature debut transposes The Postman Always Rings Twice to the endless, empty lowlands of the Po Delta. There, an itinerant labourer (Girotti) stumbles into a tatty roadside trattoria and an emotional quagmire. Seduced by Calamai, he disposes of her fat, doltish husband (De Landa), and the familiar Cain litany - lust, greed, murder, recrimination - begins. 'Ossessione' is often described as the harbinger of neo-realism, but the pictorial beauty is pure Visconti, while the ble
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After Renoir's reluctant addition of a couple of titles to satisfy the producers desire to expand to feature length, this masterpiece was finally released in 1946. On an idyllic country picnic, a young girl briefly leaves her family and fiance and succumbs to an all-too-brief romance. The careful reconstruction of period (around 1860) is enhanced by a typically touching generosity towards the characters and an aching, poignant sense of love lost, but never forgotten. And, as always in Renoir, find out more...
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First installment of "The Apu Trilogy". Apu, the young son of an impoverished family, begins life in a small Bengali village. Here he tastes his first experiences of the world some happy, some sad, but always portrayed with compassion and a realism that's almost painful. Poetic and stunning.
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