The Wall (1998)
Nov 14, 1999Belgian Dystopia/Magical Realism
Film made to celebrate the millennium where a totalitarian government creates a wall that divides Belgium along linguistic lines
Haut et Court
The Hole (1998)
Oct 6, 1999Urban Disorder
Tsai Ming-Liang film made to celebrate the millennium about the taunting relationship that grows between a man and a woman affected by a hole left between their apartments by a plumber
They Came Back (2004)
Apr 19, 2009The Dead Return to Life
A French zombie film that is about as far removed from a zombie film as it possible to get – the dead inexplicably return to life not to eat the flesh of the living but calm and detached where society’s problem is how to let them return to their previous lives
The Woman in the Fifth (2011)
Jul 12, 2012Mysterious Femme Fatale
European arthouse film that feels like it should have been a horror film. This starts well but when it veers into genre territory, its big twist has been done by too many genre films of recent and holds nothing interesting in its treatment
The Future (2011)
Nov 4, 2011Whimsical Relationship Drama/Magical Realism
Oddball and whimsical – welcome to the world of Miranda July who serves up a quirky relationship drama peopled with talking cats, conversations with The Moon and time-freezing abilities
Song of the Sea (2014)
Mar 28, 2015Animation/Selkies and Celtic Mythology
An Oscar nominees for Best Animated Film – a unique and exquisitely drawn dive into Celtic mythology that comes with wit, humour and the emotional tenderness of a Hayao Miyazaki. This deserves to be seen far more widely than it ended up being
The Lobster (2015)
Oct 10, 2015Future Where Everyone Must Be in a Relationship/Black Comedy
Yorgos Lanthimos makes a deadpan black humour SF film set in a future where one is forced to find their perfect romantic partner or else be turned into an animal
The Night Eats the World (2018)
Apr 15, 2019French Zombie Film
The zombie genre has become creatively overused and exhausted in recent years but this French entry plays with an appealing originality, sort of like a low-key version of Dawn of the Dead where a man builds a Parisian apartment building into his own paradise