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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2009 2:13:52 GMT
Have you any favorites? I saw 'Water' a while back, which I thought was really good. It was in English, but set in India, and about the conflicts that occurred during the separation. More about it on here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0240200/Can you think of any that you found interesting? |
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Post by lagatta on Jul 27, 2009 11:34:10 GMT
Countries other than BC would include a great many!
Deyana, this should be in "screening room".
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Post by livaco on Jul 27, 2009 12:26:11 GMT
I loved Rabbit Proof Fence.
If anyone watches the dvd version, I would recommend watching the extras where they show about the kids who were in the movie. They explain who they are, and how they chose the kids, and what being in the movie meant to them as far as learning about their own history. The scene where they are taken from their mother has me crying just thinking about it. The little girls did such a good acting job with the scene and are sobbing themselves for ages afterwards. They really put their heart into it.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 27, 2009 15:19:01 GMT
That was a story from the antipodes for me, here in Québec, but the same thing happened here and throughout Canada. Indigenous children (Amerindians and Inuit) were taken very far from their home communities, taught not to speak their languages, and sometimes terribly mistreated. Even in cases where they were not mistreated, they were deprived of their families and cultures; this has caused lasting harm, here as in Australia.
I'll recommend a film that IS from here, but "from another country" for most of you. The English title is "The Necessities of Life". (In French: "Ce qu'il faut pour vivre", sorry, I don't have the title in Inuktitut).
The subject of this film is not precisely the so-called "Indian Residential Schools", but a closely-related topic: A young Inuit man (Natar Ungalaaq, who also starred in "The Fast Runner") is diagnosed with tuberculosis and sent to a sanitorium "down south" in Québec City in 1950. At the time Québec was as priest-ridden as the Ireland described in the "Magdalene Laundries". He is plunged into an utterly foreign and very insular society, and only recovers his sense of self and dignity when he encounters a young Inuit boy also sent to the sanitorium.
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Post by cigalechanta on Jul 27, 2009 17:42:31 GMT
cinama Paradiso...Italy
Forbidden Games...France
Woman in the Dunes...Japan
Through a Glass Darkly...Sweden
The Cranes are flying....Russia
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 27, 2009 19:27:01 GMT
La Veuve de St Pierre (St Pierre & Miquelon islands)
The Last Emperor (China)
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Post by Jazz on Jul 27, 2009 22:31:45 GMT
Babette's Feast (Denmark)
The Celebration (Denmark)
Raise the Red Lantern (China)
Ugetsu (Japan)
Since Otar Left (Georgia, USSR)
Lawrence of Arabia (North Africa)
The Marriage of Maria Braun (Germany)
Mostly Martha (Germany)
Silences of the Palace (Tunisia)
Once Were Warriors (Australia)
Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australia)
The Best of Youth (Italy)
Two Women (Italy)
The Bicycle Thief (Italy)
The Third Man (British, set in Berlin)
Earth, Fire, Water (trilogy-India)
Indochine, The Lover (l'Amant)...(both set in French colonial Indo china in the 30's)
Jean de Florettes/Manon des Sources (France)
Jules et Jim (France)
Ma Vie en Rose (France)
La Reine Margot (France)
all of Ingmar Bergman's films (Sweden)
Amelie (France)
Paris Je T'Aime (France)
Les Enfants du Paradis (France)
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Post by lagatta on Jul 27, 2009 22:59:34 GMT
I'll have to think about some US films to post - that is after all another country for a great many of us - and Hollywood fantasyland has very little to do with the real US...
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Post by Jazz on Jul 27, 2009 23:47:37 GMT
This does require some thought. Most of the films that I watch (75%?) are foreign and seldom American. But, there have been some great ones.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 28, 2009 2:03:33 GMT
I'm a little confused about the focus of this post. Should it be movies about particular countries, regardless of where the movie was made? Also, does period matter? And each film listed would be one that the poster is recommending, correct?
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Post by livaco on Jul 28, 2009 11:49:27 GMT
Persepolis
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Post by imec on Jul 28, 2009 12:14:18 GMT
I'm a little confused about the focus of this post. Should it be movies about particular countries, regardless of where the movie was made? Also, does period matter? And each film listed would be one that the poster is recommending, correct? Thanks bixa. I'm equally confused. Although I rarely watch movies or "films", it appears to me that at least some that are listed are not so much "about" the country, but the film does provide some insight into life in that country or the history and so on. |
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Post by Jazz on Jul 28, 2009 13:23:20 GMT
Mass confusion, me too!  I simply took the OP to mean films that gave some or a great deal of insight into a country. You will never find a film that tells you all about one country, ever. (if you do, please let me know) Most of the ones I have listed were made by filmakers of the particular country, but not all... a fresh and unique perspective often comes from outside. They are from different periods. These are all films that I have seen and would highly recommend...I could probably add a hundred more. (don't worry, I won't! haha) |
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Post by imec on Jul 28, 2009 14:56:03 GMT
I've posted this before in another thread, but it's such a poignant film and gives a glimpse into the profound beauty of a country most of us know little about. I play my DVD over and over.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 28, 2009 16:21:26 GMT
Alot of these movies are in various other threads throughout the screening room so it feels all jumbled up to me and extremely confusing. It could refer to documentaries and art films both.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 1, 2009 19:35:24 GMT
There's a movie coming out in France next week that intrigues me. It's about a young woman who accidently receives the lost suitcase of an American tourist after a trip (I presume that her suitcase was lost as well and it is a delivery problem). She goes through all of his stuff and falls in love with him just from his clothing and personal items. And so she starts stalking him, and he is mortified.
That's all I know about the movie so far.
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I simply took the OP to mean films that gave some or a great deal of insight into a country. You will never find a film that tells you all about one country, ever. (if you do, please let me know) Most of the ones I have listed were made by filmakers of the particular country, but not all... a fresh and unique perspective often comes from outside. They are from different periods. These are all films that I have seen and would highly recommend...I could probably add a hundred more. (don't worry, I won't! haha)