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THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CESAIRE2025 Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Directed by Women Literature Narrative Films Sociology Women's Studies
An actress and new mother is haunted by voices as she embarks on inhabiting the role of surrealist writer Suzanne Roussi-Césaire. In the sleepy palm groves of the tropics, a small group of filmmakers and actors confront the history of writer Suzanne Césaire in her youth and then stage scenes from her life, troubling the “paradise” of historical memory. Moving between narrative filmmaking and abstraction, this is a film that leaves room for the unknown.
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RECOLLECTIONS OF THE YELLOW HOUSE2025 Art History Cinema Studies Europe Narrative Films Performing Arts
Subtitled "A Portuguese Comedy" and deliberately evoking the popular spectacles of yore, the film is both a sensuous and slow-burn circus act and a jewel of ingenious formal ideas and sublime lyricism. Considered by many to be Monteiro's crowning achievement, the film inaugurated a series of late-period romps featuring the endearing and dastardly João de Deus, the man you love to hate.
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MATT and MARA2025 Cinema Studies Family Relations Literature
When Mara reunites with Matt a chance encounter threatens to spin her life in a thrilling new direction. Bonded by their history and shared interests, the two grow closer. When her husband unexpectedly cancels plans to drive Mara to a conference out of town, Matt accompanies her instead and the pressure in their undefined relationship slowly builds.
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A TRAVELER'S NEEDS2025 Cinema Studies Cultural Studies Family Relations Films of Hong Sangsoo 2024
A comedy of improbable encounters and unlikely language lessons, A Traveler’s Needs marks the third collaboration between Hong and Isabelle Huppert (following 2012’s In Another Country and 2017’s Claire’s Camera). An Official Selection of the New York Film Festival.
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ON THE BATTLEFIELD2024 African-American Studies American Studies American History Anthropology Short Films Cultural Studies 2025
In the Southern Illinois region of Little Egypt, a sound recordist walks through the fields where once stood Pyramid Courts - the housing projects that formed the heart of the Black community of his hometown, Cairo.
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IN ANOTHER COUNTRY2025 Cinema Studies Films of Hong Sangsoo Narrative Films Performing Arts
A comedy of behaviors and a study in variations, Hong Sangsoo’s first film with Isabelle Huppert ranks among his breeziest and most mindbending endeavors. In Another Country inaugurated one of the most fruitful actor-director collaborations in contemporary cinema.
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