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Review of Vento di terra (2004)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 06 Dec 2005

[P]robes disquietingly deep into the murky depths of the two biggest support systems known to modern man: the state and the family…

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Review of Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul (2005)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 17 Nov 2005

The musical documentary version of Turkish delight…

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Review of Manderlay (2005)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 29 Oct 2005

Manderlay, like its predecessor Dogville, is a very interesting flawed picture, though both films have very different weaknesses and strengths…

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Review of Caché (2005)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 25 Oct 2005

[Haneke's] dark world view comes elegantly wrapped in its own contradiction…

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Review of Elizabethtown (2005)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 09 Oct 2005

Imagine Garden State by a better writer-director but with a worse editor and a loony studiohead who insisted on bringing the film in at two…

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Review of Gabrielle (1954)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 24 Sep 2005

For all its filmmaking bravura, the film never transcends the confines of its period drama setting…

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Review of Gabrielle (2005)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 24 Sep 2005

For all its filmmaking bravura, the film never transcends the confines of its period drama setting…

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Review of Brokeback Mountain (2005)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 14 Sep 2005

Ang Lee's best film to date; career best performances of Ledger and Gyllenhaal, amazing score and cinematography and a heartbreaking love story…

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Review of Corpse Bride (2005)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 13 Sep 2005

Easily the best animated work of the year, even if it is very light on morals and heavy on visual bedazzlement…

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Review of Facing Windows (2003)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 16 Aug 2005

Cast and production values are serviceable but bland and there are some hiccoughs in the story, making this intriguing film perhaps best suited…

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Review of The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael (2005)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 12 Jul 2005

Rookie director Thomas Clay gives us a cinematic punch-in-the-face that is both real and violently unsettling…

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Review of Guys & Balls (2004)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 08 Jul 2005

The sexuality of the protagonists is just another plot twist in this mildly funny sports comedy that never seems to accept its characters as…

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Review of King's Game (2004)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 01 Jul 2005

One would never guess that it was made by a rookie director. A ride of nail-biting suspense and unsuspected insight…

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Review of Lemming (2005)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 02 Jun 2005

Not really a thriller with a twist, but more an exciting, intelligent and suspenseful work with an overall quirkiness of subject matter and tone…

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Review of Saraband (2003)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 31 May 2005

A small made-for-TV project by some guy named Bergman that could well be one of the best films (perhaps even the best film) released in theatres…

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Review of March of the Penguins (2005)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 06 May 2005

The inventive use of well-written and acted voice-overs and the technical sleekness of this work makes one hungry for more…

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Review of Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 04 May 2005

A mixed bag of good intentions, technical craftsmanship, post-9/11 angst and (again!) a sword-wielding Orlando Bloom…

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Review of The Five Obstructions (2003)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 13 Apr 2005

This unique work does humanise the two directors, but also shows that these two fallible humans are capable of making wonderful if not perfect…

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Review of Sophie Scholl: The Final Days (2005)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 05 Apr 2005

The film itself may be very classical in its approach [but] the sheer power of Jentsch's performance and Sophie's own words make this film…

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Review of Vera Drake (2004)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 04 Apr 2005

Despite an occasionally hampering pace, Vera Drake is worth [it] because of its impeccably conceived and acted characters and the moral quagmire…

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