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The story of the aftermath of the Hiroshima bombing, based on Masuji Ibuse's novel.
Touching and haunting story details the impact the Hiroshima bombing had on one family's lives, caught in exquisite black and white imagery.
Halliwell*: "Intermittently moving, despite its uncertainties of tone."
Maltin***: "Somber, restrained, and very moving story...A quietly observant character study with a number of haunting black and white images."
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This series documents the 9/11 terrorist attacks, from Al Qaeda's roots in the 1980s to America's forceful response, both at home and abroad.
Comprehensive and informative documentary takes its time to bring in detail the 9/11 attacks and the history that lead to them and goes further to analyze their impact on the history thereafter.
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On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Masterfully directed period drama is an intellectual, unsentimental study of a lesbian romance on the surface, but also explores power and passion, creativity and germinal love.
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Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a friendship evolves between the odd couple who couldn't stand each other initially; a friendship that even overcomes the boundaries of great tragedy.
Excellent tragicomedy may irritate (and shock) some with its rough, but authentic Austrian language and humor, but it's actually the story of an endearing friendship in the making and also transports a slight metaphysical message (with a wink).
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