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  • Casablanca
  • Castle of Purity
  • A Man Escaped
  • The Love Eterne

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  • Family Life

    ★★★★

  • The Love Eterne

    ★★★★½

  • A Man Escaped

    ★★★★½

  • Haywire

    ★★★

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  • Family Life

    Family Life

    ★★★★

    Polish master Zanussi’s early work is such a uniquely irresistible and besetting experience, about a man who returns to his ancestral home after many years only to find that his family is still as dysfunctional.

    Review - wp.me/pat7iE-5GX

  • The Love Eterne

    The Love Eterne

    ★★★★½

    As much a cultural touchstone as it is an exemplar of the Huangmei opera genre, this classic of classics sucks you into its overt melodramatism and a heartrending story of everlasting love as a woman dressed as a man in order to attend university meets another man.

    Review - wp.me/pat7iE-5GM

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  • Parasite

    Parasite

    ★★★★½

    Although Bong Joon-ho has made more formidable pictures, this razor-sharp treatise on social class differences in South Korea shocks and entertains in equal measure.

    Full review: wp.me/pat7iE-KH

  • Decision to Leave

    Decision to Leave

    ★★★★

    Park’s latest Cannes winner charts an alluringly new direction for him—a layered if at times convoluted crime procedural that hides an elusive romantic drama about the perverse relationship between a conflicted investigator and a seductive murder suspect.

    Review - wp.me/pat7iE-4Tx