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DOGVILLE (15) |
| Set in an American Town in the Rocky Mountains in the 1930s. Lars von Trier re-explores the concept of goodness, but this in an idiom very different from that of his Gold Heart Trilogy (Breaking the Waves, The idiots and Dancer in the Dark). DOGVILLE is shot exclusively in studio with a minimum of p... |
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HAPPINESS (18) |
| Centred loosely on a New Jersey family of three grown-up sisters, their parents, partners and children, Solondz's brave and adventurous second feature takes misery, loneliness and cruelty as a given in contemporary life; everyone here is (justifiably or otherwise) unhappy with their lot - or should ... |
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KILLING OF A CHINESE BOOKIE (15) |
| Cosmo Vitelli owns the Crazy Horse West, a strip joint in California. He's laconic, a Korean War vet, and a gambler. When we meet him, he's making his last payment on a gambling debt. Then, he promptly loses $23,000 playing poker at an illegal local casino. The guys he owes this time aren't so frien... |
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PARIS JE T'AIME (15) |
| More of an experiment than a fully fleged feature film, Paris Je T'Aime gathers more than a dozen directors from all over the world and offers them the world's most romantic city as a backdrop. The result is, inevitably, a mixed bag: eighteen filmettes lasting around eight minutes each, veering in t... |
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SUMMER OF SAM (18) |
| Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood whom live in fear and distrust of one another. |
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