tezza's - Rented List
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As Tears Go By (1988)Wong gok ka moon
"As Tears Go By", Wong Kar Wai's first full length feature film, is set on the mean streets of Hong Kong in the late eighties. It is the tale of two lowly gangsters, Ah Wah (Andy Lau) and his side-kick Fly (Jacky Cheung), trapped in a downward spiral of violence and vengeance. When Ah's cousin arrives from Kowloon, she brings with her the hope of life away from non-stop savagery and corruption. However, escape from their past is impossible and 'the life' soon catches up with them. - Director:
- Kar-Wai Wong
- Cast:
- Andy Lau, Maggie Cheung, Jacky Cheung
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Ivan's Childhood (1962)Ivanovo detstvo
A determined 12-year-old boy named Ivan joins a Russian partisan regiment as a scout due to his uncanny ability to slip quickly through enemy lines undetected. But as his missions become increasingly dangerous he is pulled from duty, something which he is quick to protest against because Ivan has an ulterior motive - to avenge the death of his family at the hands of the Nazis. Andrei Tarkovsky's first feature film is regarded as one of the most accomplished cinematic debuts and launched the career of the most influential and admired Russian filmmaker in history. - Director:
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Cast:
- Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeniy Zharikov
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Our Little Sister (2015)Umimachi Diary
Sachi, Yoshino and Chika are three sisters living happily together in a relaxed seaside town south of Tokyo. When their long-estranged father passes away they meet their shy teenage half-sister at his funeral. Bonding quickly, they invite the orphaned Suzu to live with them and she eagerly agrees, sparking a journey of self-discovery for all four sisters, looking back into painful pasts in order to reach forward to more hopeful futures. - Director:
- Hirokazu Koreeda
- Cast:
- Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho
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Floating Skyscrapers (2013)Plynace Wiezowce
Aspiring champion swimmer Kuba lives a normal, uneventful life at home with his mother and girlfriend. But Kuba has also been growing more curious about some of the boys at the gym. At a gallery opening one night, he meets Michal. Kuba drops his training program and begins to dream of another life. Meanwhile, Michal takes on the task of convincing his mother and distant father that his lifestyle is not just a passing fancy. Kuba comes to recognize he has never experienced feelings as deep as those he has for Michal. It takes all the courage he can muster to face those who love him and dive in. - Director:
- Tomasz Wasilewski
- Cast:
- Mateusz Banasiuk, Marta Nieradkiewicz, Bartosz Gelner
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Hideaway (2009)Le Refuge
Mousse (Isabelle Carre) and Louis (Melvil Poupaud) are young, beautiful and in love, but when drugs invade their lives tragedy rips them apart. When Mousse then learns that she is pregnant, she attempts to put her life back on track and flees to a house far from Paris where, several months later, she is joined by Louis' brother Paul (Louis-Ronan Choisy). United in their grief, Mousse and Paul begin to develop an unusual and deeply moving bond, in Frangois Ozon's tender and moving exploration Of the nature of family and blood ties. - Director:
- François Ozon
- Cast:
- Isabelle Carré, Louis-Ronan Choisy, Pierre Louis-Calixte
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Une Femme Mariee (1964)A Married Woman
Long out-of-circulation and unavailable for home viewing, Jean-Luc Godard's 1964 masterpiece Une femme mariée, fragments d'un film tourné en 1964 en noir et blanc (A Married Woman: Fragments of a Film Shot in 1964 in Black and White) has, until now, represented the ostensibly 'missing' key work from the first, zeitgeist-defining phase of JLG's filmography. The feature which bridges the gap between Bande à part and Alphaville, Une femme mariée is, nevertheless, a galaxy, or gallery, unto itself — a lucid, complex, profoundly funny series of portraits, etched with Godardian acids, of the wife that represents either a singular case, or a universal example, of "a"/"the" married woman, and the men in her orbit. Designed with Raoul Coutard's breathtaking cinematography, Godard's picture captures a moment in time — but all its mysteries, its truths, its beauty, comedy and grace, serve to resolve into a work of art for the ages. - Director:
- Jean-Luc Godard
- Cast:
- Bernard Noël, Macha Méril, Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu
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