Courted/L'Hermine
See what you've done, political correctness? I can't take a simple plot point like "man reacts to woman doing her job well by becoming romatically obsessesed" at
Movies
Macadam Stories/Asphalte
Asphalte (Macadam Stories) begins as an orthodox comedy: opening in the lounge of a decaying apartment block, the residents have squeezed in to vote on replacing the dysfunctional lift out of their own
La Dune
I was a little mislead by the synopsis for La Dune; it sounded like a slightly unorthodox police proceedural. Which, in the narrowest possible sense it is, but that's like handing
Aberdeen
Named not for the Scottish city, but rather the region of Hong Kong; this story of a Hong Kong family: a Taoist priest, long-widowed now with his nightclub-owning girlfriend; their sad, lonely daughter
Sexy Beast
A monster arrives in your home. The monster blusters. The monster threatens. The monster beats you. The monster threatens you. But you stay strong. The monster leaves. But then it returns. And you