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foreign films

  • 14-12-2003 2:33pm
    #1
    lilo moo
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    I saw a crazy German movie a couple of weeks ago called Mein Bruder der Vampir, which translates as Getting my Brother Laid. It was all about a 14 year old girl and her (almost) 30 year old mentally retarded brother and their sexual awakenings. Ah, I do love a good foreign film... Anyone see it? Any other foreign favourites?


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  • #2
    quank
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    i think there was an Italian film called
    Life is Beautiful

    i thought it was an excellento film, but had to read subtitles :(
    but very good watch
    its set in World War II


  • #3
    SweetBirdOfTruth
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    depends on where you are and what you mean by foreign. i could be pedantic and tell you that pretty much anything this year other other than dead bodies, intermission, goldfish memory, spin the bottle, the actors, evelyn and mystics is foreign, but i suspect you mean not in english.

    if you're in dublin, you're almost spoilt, with the ifi's busy programme and the sceen regularly putting on non-mainstream flicks. plus there's the new screens up in the ugc, which promise to spoil non-mainstream cinema-goers in this city.

    there's been a reasonable french season in the ifi, just gone, there's a german season currently on though little leaps out as demanding seeing. there's currently an iranian one, crimson gold, which could easily be set in any wester city. have a lool at the ifi site, http://www.ifi.ie

    i personally tend to go to the ifi a lot, and most of the films i've seen there have threads in the film reviews folder.

    belvaux's trilogie films are currently playing in the ifi and ugc and are worth seeing, between them having something for everybody. goodybe lenin and city of angels will be listed in all critics top tens this year, being the most obvious art-house cross-over hits of the year. russian ark and irreversible will likewise probly get a lot of mentions, mostly for their technical flair.

    of the foreign directors i've seen this year, the big stand out has probly been the hungarian bela tarr, three of his films played the ifi, all balck and white, all v slow but v beautiful, especially the seven hour satantango (and before anyone makes any comment on a seven hour film, just remember all the people hereabouts who will be in liffey valley next week for eleven hours of lord of the rings).

    as i say though, your best bet is to get a copy of the ifi programme and take a chance, you will more often be pleasantly surprised than disappointed, they do have a v gd programming policy.


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