It's the trailer Sally Potter shot to launch her beautiful movie "The Tango Lesson" (1997). The notes of one of Astor Piazzolla's masterpieces, Libertango, are played by Yo-yo Ma, who also appears in the clip.
Giacomo Battiato won the Golden Marcus Aurelius for best film (audience award) with this tough and striking movie about the Srebrenica genocide, occurred in 1995 during the War in Bosnia, and the hunt to the war criminals who ordered and committed it. In the cast there are among the others Benoit Magimel, Hippolyte Girardot and Karolina Gruschka
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Tropical Malady director), makes a portrait of his parents (both doctors)' lives, before they became involved, setting their stories in two different time periods with recurring actions, conversations, feelings, characters. It can sound confusing but it is indeed a great film about who we are, how we change, what we fear and love.
Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien, one of the best living filmakers, IMO, directs Juliette Binoche in his first movie shot in Europe. All his poetics seems to be in the film, presented in the Un Certain Regard section at 2007 Cannes Film festival.
Laurent Cantet won the Golden Palm at 2008 Cannes Film festival directing with great sensitivity a story about two generations and school's role in everybody's life. The movie is about Francois, a brilliant teacher in a high school, challenged by a student who doesn't like his methods.
The famous Brazilian actor Matheus Nachtergaele debuts behind the camera with A Festa da Menina Morta (The Dead Girl's Feast), the story of Santinho, a young man who's considered a religious guru from his Amazonian community.
I haven't been able to find a trailer yet, so here it is a small part of a report about 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days, the film by Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, that has won the Golden Palm at 2007 Cannes Film festival. Mungiu describes with a stunning realism the struggle of two young women, facing the pain of an abortion in a Romania on the verge of Ceausescu's regime downfall.
Philippe Garrel directs his son Louis and Laura Smet, in this story, shot in a striking black and white, that touches themes like love, loneliness, stardom, regrets, suicide... It all starts from the encounter between a star and a photographer who has to make a reportage about her....
After Osama, Siddiq Barmak directs this surreal and very funny black comedy, about two american soldiers who get to know Afghanistan war though a whole difference perspective.
The movie won the Golden Marcus Aurelius (Critics awards) at Rome Film Festival.
Chinese director Chen Kaige (winner in 1993 of the Golden Palm at Cannes Film festival with the breathtaking Farewell my concubine) returns to the world of opera directing the biopic on Mei Lanfang (played by Leon Lai), the greatest Beijing Opera singer of 20th Century. In the cast there's also Zhang Ziyi who plays Meng Xiaodong, a famous opera singer herself, who was Mei Lanfang's lover.
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