World Cinema

• Mike Leigh
• UK
• 2008
• 118min

Frothy”, “optimistic”, and “light” are not qualities often associated with the cinema of Mike Leigh. But in taking a step away from class issues, social realism, and injustice Leig...

World Cinema

• Christine MOLLOY,Joe LAWLOR
• Ireland,UK
• 2008
• 79min

Complexity exists in all of us but so often teenagers are not seen or portrayed in such a way. Given her personal history she is also intensely private. We rarely see her emoting o...

World Cinema

• Paolo Sorrentino
• Italy,France
• 2008
• 118min

Though Il Divo may be a portrait of Giulio Andreotti, senator for life, three-time prime minister, and one of the most powerful men in Italy-it is simultaneously a biting dissectio...

World Cinema

• Ruben ÖSTLUND
• Sweden
• 2008
• 98min

About ten years ago I played a computer game. The aim of the game was to build and maintain a city and all that it entails. It was played from a bird’s eye perspective, with humans...

World Cinema

• Christian Petzold
• Germany
• 2008
• 93min

Finding a home is something that interests me, and people who manage to get their way against all odds too. Everywhere they turn, they are confronted with defeat, but nevertheless ...

World Cinema

• Jean-Stéphane Sauvaire
• France
• 2008
• 95min

War creates a state of no-rights which allows for all kinds of impunity and madness. It normalizes death, standardizes barbarity, maintains fear and phantasmagoria, brings back to ...

World Cinema

• Joel Anderson
• Australia
• 2008
• 87min

Lake Mungo combines grief, hidden lives, and the need for closure in a story that melds mystery, drama, documentary, and a dash of Blair Witch Project-style ghost tale. A family in...

World Cinema

• Lisandro ALONSO
• Argentina,the Netherlands,France,Spain,Germany
• 2008
• 84min

Like director Alonso’s Los Muertos, Liverpool is a mostly silent, languid journey of the self. Set on the southernmost tip of Argentina, the film shifts in a career sailor, Farrel,...

World Cinema

• Jean-Pierre Dardenne,Luc Dardenne
• Belgium,France,Italy
• 2008
• 105min

As an Albanian immigrant living in Belgium, Lorna is trapped in a static life. Unable to feel completely secure, she is married to a Belgian junkie, Claudy, and falls into a scheme...

World Cinema

• Rodrique Jean
• Canada
• 2008
• 105min

Very little is truly understood about post-partum depression and the number of women it affects is greatly underestimated. Motherhood is the apex of womanhood, and the shame and bi...