Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Nina and Sophia are two lifelong friends who aren’t speaking to each other any longer, until the day Sophia ends up in a coma and Nina discovers she’s been writing the story of Snow Flower and Lily.
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Piel que Habito, La
Antonio Banderas stars in Pedro Almodóvar latest flawed little genre-defying masterpiece.
Better Life (2011), A
Carlos hasn’t asked much from life as an illegal immigrant in the United States, except for a quiet subsistence as a gardener for the wealthier people of L.A. and a better future for his son Luis.
I Am Slave
Based on the life of Mende Nazer, Malia gets separated from her family and is abducted from her Sudanese village. As a young woman, Malia ends up enslaved by a diplomatic family in present day London.
China Miéville – Embassytown
Words have fascinating and destructive power in this new “weird fiction” novel.
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The (2009)
An anti-social, punk-rock computer hacker and a political journalist solve a 40 year murder case in the original Swedish adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s best-selling The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
White: The Melody of the Curse
Indie directors Gok Kim and Sun Kim take on some of those Kpop industry stories, and give it a K-horror spin in their most commercial film to date.
Incendies (2010)
Incendies is a telenovela overlaid a veil of political and religious unrest, with a twist that sets things in motion and makes the film horribly haunting.
Melancholia
The planet Melancholia is coming nearer, as sisters Justine and Claire deal with their strained relationship.
Drive (2011)
Nicolas Winding Refn presents a unique and unconventional masterpiece with his gripping film about a Hollywood stunt driver who moonlights as a getaway driver.
