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The Road Home (1999)
The Road Home may be one man’s second-hand account of his parents’ love story, yet in reconstructing memories from older generations who laid the foundations of family, Zhang Yimou elevates its historic, private romance into communal legend.
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J’Accuse (1919)
Across years of war, jealousy, and heartbreak in J’Accuse, Abel Gance chronicles a fated love triangle that collides with history’s brutal upheavals, bitterly reproaching the living and mourning an innocence that this heedless, bloodstained world may never recover.
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2000 in Cinema
Wong Kar-wai composes an exquisitely controlled expression of longing and restraint between neighbours, Christopher Nolan fractures an amnesiac’s memory into a backwards-running puzzle, and Ridley Scott resurrects the swords-and-sandals epic.
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The Exterminating Angel (1962)
There is no physical obstacle preventing the aristocrats of The Exterminating Angel from exiting their hosts’ dinner party, yet still they find themselves trapped in a gilded cage of privilege, etiquette, and ritual, as Luis Buñuel mercilessly skewers a bourgeoisie undone by its own illusions.
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Not One Less (1999)
As Zhang Yimou tells the tale of a young, rural teacher searching for a runaway student in the city, he retains a disarming sincerity, dedicating Not One Less to the everyday labour of education and its responsibility to safeguard children’s futures.
