2004 Movies : Foreign

With Rodrigo Santoro • Gero Camilo • Caio Blat • Milton Goncalves • Nelson Machado • Maria Luisa Mendonca • Lazaro Ramos • Luis Vasconcuelos • Hector Babenco • Victor Navas

We come to know the rapist Gilson, tried and sentenced by the Law Behind Bars; Zico and Deusdete, inseparable half brothers who, in jail, become each other's assassins; Highness and his shrewd balancing act between women and heists; Old Chico, a Zen master in the ways of the dungeon, at last on the brink of his long-awaited freedom; Warden Pires, who oversees the prison with the perspicacity of a tightrope walker; Ebony, the true leader of the inmate community and the arbiter of all its contentions; the religious conversion of the assasin, Dagger, the rise and fall of the surfer Ezequiel; Antonio Carlos, Claudiomiro and, coming between them like a knife, and depraved Dina; the existentialist philosopher No Way and his love affair with the divine lady Di. The narrative of the film is crafted like a puzzle with one story giving way to another for of surrealist, uniquely Brazilian collage of tragedy.

With Daniel Craig • Anne Reid • Cathryn Bradshaw • Steven Mackintosh • Zelda Tinska • Peter Vaughan

Anne Reid stars as May, an ordinary grandmother from the North of England. When her husband dies on a family visit to London, she recedes into the background of her busy, metropolitan children's lives. Stuck in an unfamiliar city, far from home, May fears that she has become another invisible old lady whose life is more or less over. Until, that is, she embarks on a passionate affair with Darren (Daniel Craig), a man half her age who is renovating her son's house and sleeping with her daughter.

With Sun Honglei • Sun Zhou • Bill Kong • Gong Li • Tony Leung Ka Fai • Shi Chunling • Liu Wei • Sun Mian • Zhou Yu • Zhang Mei

On a passenger train, a beautiful young woman traveling alone carries a handmade ceramic vase, intricately painted by her own hand, a gift for a distant lover. She meets a friendly, handsome young veterinarian, who tries to tell her that she should sell the valuable piece to him, instead of giving it away to her boyfriend for free. Simply to spite the persistent animal doctor, the young woman hurls the vase to the floor of the train, shattering it to pieces.

With Darcy Fehr • Melissa Dionisio • Amy Stewart • Tara Birtwhistle • Louis Negin • Guy Maddin • Philip Monk

An expressionist work comprised of surreal action involving: a hockey rink that houses a forgotten wax museum, where ghosts of dead lovers stroll; and a beauty salon where a demented doctor, wearing a corset, performs abortions.

With Paz Vega • Eduardo Noriega • Anna Mouglalis • Nathalie Richard • Catherine Bidaut • Bernard Bloch • Leny Bueno • Eric Caravaca • Vincent Dissez • Agathe Dronne

This is a sex comedy about memory loss, as office worker Graham (Eduardo Noriega) has recently suffered a complete memory loss from a martial arts-related accident, which means that every time he has sex with Irene, one of the secretaries, he forgets about it an hour later, so every time is the first time...

With James McAvoy • Jim Broadbent • Imelda Staunton • Michael Sheen • Emily Mortimer • Stockard Channing • Stephen Fry • Stephen Campbell Moore • Richard E. Grant • David Tennant • Gina Carter • Jim Carter • Guy Henry • Peter O'Toole • Simon Callow • Bill Paterson • Dan Ackroyd • Julia McKenzie • John Mills • Alec Newman • Fenella Woolgar

A group of young geniuses are drawn together by a mysterious advertisement, then suspiciously abandoned on an island, where they scramble to sort out their collective fate.