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Directed by Valeska Grisebach | 121 mins | 2017
Tensions rise during a work stoppage when a group of German laborers erecting a hydroelectric plant in rural Bulgaria suddenly find themselves with time to get into trouble in Grisebach’s patient, tonally precise, naturalist drama, which thoughtfully delineates the growing tension—and moments of connection—between the visitors and the local villagers with a miraculously light touch.
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A Touch of Sin
Directed by Jia Zhangke | 130 mins | 2013
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Archipelago
Directed by Joanna Hogg | 114 mins | 2010
Young Edward (Tom Hiddleston) is lured into a holiday in Cornwall by his mother and aunt, whose motives are as mysterious to the unmoored Edward as he is to himself. Looking on this atomized family with typically patient reserve, Hogg offers an ethnograph... -
Exhibition
Directed by Joanna Hogg | 104 mins | 2013
Two married, childless fifty-something artists (Viv Albertine of the Slits and Liam Gillick) share an austere modernist townhouse and a crushing sense of ennui in Hogg’s third feature, a study in second-nature cohabitation that’s as precise in its rigorou...
