Blood And Rain
(La sangre y la lluvia)
Taxi driver Jorge begins his night shift bent on revenge after his brother’s murder at the hands of a violent gang. But when an accident brings him unexpectedly closer to his party-girl fare Angela, the damaged pair must struggle against forces already set in motion, drawing them inexorably into the rain-soaked underworld of Bogotá.
(Country: Colombia, Argentina; Year: 2009; Director: Jorge Navas; Writer: Carlos Henao, Alizé LE MAOULT, Jorge Navas; Stars: Gloria Montoya, Quique Mendoza, Juan Miguel Silva, Hernán Méndez, Weimar Delgado, Julio César Valencia)
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A Brand New Life
(Yeo-haeng-ja)
When her father offers to take her on a trip, nine-year-old Jin-hee happily sings him a love song, the bittersweet notes inaudible to her own ear, until she realizes he has abandoned her at a Catholic orphanage.
(Country: France, South Korea; Year: 2009; Director: Ounie Lecomte; Writer: Ounie Lecomte; Stars: Sae Ron Kim, Do Yeon Park, Ah-sung Ko, Myeong-shin Park, Man-seok Oh, Kyung-gu Sol, Seong-kun Mun, Hyun-joo Baek, Yejin Jeong, Hackjin Mun, Yoo-nah Kim, Hanbyoul Lee, Robert Youngs, Lara Tosh, Richard Wilson)
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Heartbreakers
(L'arnacoeur)
Alex (Romain Duris) and his sister (Julie Ferrier) break up couples for a living. They have a 100 percent success rate and only two rules: Never split a healthy couple, and never fall in love. But with a week to break up beautiful Juliette (Vanessa Paradis) and her seemingly perfect boyfriend, the rules start to bend, and soon the heartbreakers risk having their own hearts broken.
(Country: France, Monaco; Year: 2010; Director: Pascal Chaumeil; Writer: Laurent Zeitoun, Jeremy Doner, Yohan Gromb; Stars: Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Julie Ferrier, François Damiens, Amandine Dewasmes, Jacques Frantz, Jean-Yves Lafesse, Andrew Lincoln, Héléna Noguerra, Jean-Marie Paris, Olivier Schneider)
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Review preview for Lola
Lola Sepa will always be for me now a real character I have seen, not a fiction.
Two Philippine grandmothers struggle with the aftermath of a murder.
(Country: France, Philippines; Year: 2009; Director: Brillante Mendoza; Writer: David Andriole, Linda Casimiro; Stars: Anita Linda, Rustica Carpio, Tanya Gomez, Jhong Hilario, Ketchup Eusebio, Benjie Filomeno, Bobby Jerome Go, Christian Slater, Camille Solari, Geraldine Tan)
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Review preview for Metropia
The bleached-to-monochrome palette and rich textures are stunningly beautiful to behold, if also deeply unnerving.
Futuristic animation sees a young man begin to hear voices in his head.
(Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland; Year: 2009; Director: Tarik Saleh; Writer: Fredrik Edin, Stig Larsson and Tarik Saleh, based on a story by Fredrik Edin, Martin Hultman and Tarik Saleh; Stars: Voices of: Vincent Gallo, Juliette Lewis, Udo Kier, Stellan Skarsgård, Alexander Skarsgård, Sofia Helin, Shanti Roney, Fares Fares, Fredrik Eddari)
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