An Urban Allegory
A child sees Paris through a kaleidoscope of his own making; he looks at the city differently from his busy... View Article
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Calamari Union
Roughly fifteen Franks and one Pekka (Markku Toikka) want to escape their back-breaking living conditions in the working-class neighbourhood of Kallio and based on their parents' stories decide to head towards the fabled district of Eira.
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Butterflies
Tangomarkkinat is an iconic summer event held in the Ostrobothnian city of Seinäjoki. Culminating in the crowning of a Tango... View Article
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Absolute Beginners
This adaptation of Colin MacInnes' 1959 novel about London's jazz circles and its burgeoning rock scene was a critical and commercial failure upon release, but Julien Temple's fascinating and exquisitely colourful musical has gained momentum during later years.
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A Complete Unknown
In the midst of the folk music renaissance of 1960’s America, a mysterious young drifter arrives in town.
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100 Litres of Gold
Pirkko and Taina, two sisters from Sysmä, have continued the traditional craft of brewing the sahti farmhouse ale under the... View Article
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A Room in Town
Jacques Demy's '80s magnum opus continues in the genre of sung-through musical familiar from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964).
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A Gentle Woman
Bresson's earliest “official” Dostoevsky adaptation – of the short story A Gentle Creature (Krotkaya, 1876) – transposes the setting of the St Petersburg story to Paris in the late 1960s.
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