Soundtracked by Dylan, the Bee Gees, and the Stones, Patricia Muzuy's Travolta et Moi is a brilliant midi-length tale of teenage l'amour fou that explodes in fire and ice. The camera moves like it's dancing with propulsive energy, freedom, grace, imagination. The climax is surely the best ice skating scene in cinema.
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Under the Bridges 1946
Filmed in Berlin months before the city was razed by battle, Käutner's Under the Bridges is a bit of a masterpiece. Its romantic Vigo-ian visions of life along the river ignore the war beyond the edges of the film, its deep humanity a dream-like glimpse into an alternate reality.
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Revenge 1990
A deeply haunting work, Kazakh director Ermek Shinarbaev's Revenge is one of the most visually beautiful films that the cinema has produced with cinematographer Sergei Kosmanev's oneiric images giving the film a truly mesmeric quality. This serves to perfectly compliment the primal, trance-like, lack of logic of the film's characters and their obsessive behaviours. Or, perhaps, the obsessive behaviour of mankind as a whole and the very notion of tradition, with the narrative taking a focus on Sungu - who is conceived and born purely to take revenge upon the schoolteacher Jan for murdering the half-sister he would never meet.
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A Brighter Summer Day 1991
A magnificent achievement, A Brighter Summer Day is a near four-hour novelistic film set in 1960s Taiwan. Xiao Si'r (played by Chen Chang in his debut role) is a member of a local gang in turmoil due to the disappearance of its leader, Bunny - whose girlfriend Si'r gets involved with. As a study of tensions within gangs, it rivals Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather but - based on a real, tragic event - it's a wholly different film that…