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SIFF 2008: Alexander Nevsky
The final weekend of the Seattle International Film Festival brought us the Soviet classic, Alexander Nevsky.
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Yung Chang – Up the Yangtze
Exploring the seldom told human toll caused by the Three Gorges Dam, Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang embarks on one of the cruise ships offering farewell tours of the Yangtze River.
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SIFF 2008: Bliss (Turkish title: Mutluluk)
Ignorance is not always blissful. Desolation, sadness and psychedelic dream sequences riddle this film.
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SIFF 2008: Time to Die
The title makes it sound like an action thriller starring Arnold Schwartzenegger saving people from evil villains.
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SIFF 2008: Fighter
Danish born and raised, Ayse Erman, has come to a fork in the road: continue with high school and move onto medical school or become a kung fu fighter. The latter being the root of her wildest dreams.
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SIFF 2008: We Want Roses, Too
We Want Roses, Too is a black and white, sometimes in color docu-spoof and real-life look into the lives of Italian women in the 1960s and 70s on the verge of sexual revolution.
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SIFF 2008: The Edge of Heaven
The German born and Turkish raised director Fatih Akin, best known abroad for his work in Head-On (Duvari Karsi/Gegen Die Wand), is a master storyteller; particularly when it comes to the lives of lost souls immersed in longing and cultural confusion.
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The Singing Revolution's Filmmaker Jim Tusty in an interview with European Weekly
The Singing Revolution is a remarkable documentary about a small country called Estonia that gained its independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
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The Counterfeiters
Winner of the 2008 Academy Awards for best foreign film, Stefan Ruzowitzky’s époque movie recalls the true story of the largest counterfeiting enterprise to have ever taken place in history during the Second World War.
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4 months, 3 weeks, 3 days
Last year’s Golden Palm at Cannes will haunt you long after the curtain is drawn and the credits have ended.
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Persepolis – Marjane Satrapi adapts her graphic novel for the big screen
Think animation movies are only for kids? Marjane Satrapi’s elegant and pure pen strokes narrate the story of her youth, and of a young Iranian girl.
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Interview: Marjane Satrapi
Vous avez aimé sa bande dessinée, Persepolis; vous apprécierez d’autant plus son film d’animation, qui relate l’histoire de sa vie, portée à l’écran par les voix de Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve et Danielle Darrieux.
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Interview with Adam Goldberg
Meet Adam Goldberg, Julie Delpy’s co-star in her latest movie, Two days in Paris.
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Molière
Based on a true event that was never explained (Molière’s disappearance for a few months in 1644),
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Interview: Paul Ahmarani
Six ans après avoir présenté son premier long métrage La Moitié Gauche du Frigo au Seattle International Film Festival, le réalisateur Québécois Philippe Falardeau était à nouveau en compétition en 2007 pour son second long métrage Congorama, ...
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L'Iceberg
A modest and refreshing story about a woman’s aspirations and dreams away from her daily life, husband, and kids.
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La Vie en Rose
Edith Piaf’s life epitomizes the myth of a French artist: a life started in utmost poverty, which would give everything only to later take it back.
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Olivier Dahan
Le réalisateur de La Vie en Rose était de passage à Seattle lors du 33ème festival du film international. Il a répondu à nos questions.
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Golden Door
Going west takes on a new meaning in Emanuele Ciralese’s latest feature, Golden Door. 
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SIFF 2007
Read what two European Weekly's contributors have to say about this year's Seattle International Film Festival.
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The Page Turner
Revenge is a dish better eaten cold. Add to that a few Chabrolesque elements:
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Another great year of Polish film
The Seattle Polish Film Festival recently wrapped up an amazing 15th year showcasing the best feature films and documentaries to grace the European country.
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After the wedding
Danish cinema is full of surprises. It is so simple in its form, yet so rich and complicated in its multiple layers of psychology and social commentary.
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The Wind that Shakes the Barley
The Wind that Shakes the Barley exposes the involvement and commitment of young Irishmen and women.
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Into Great Silence
Are we in search of spirituality? Or, maybe, are we in need of spirituality?
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Our Daily Bread
In this minimalist and striking documentary, Austrian filmmaker Niklaus Geyrhalter opens our eyes to how alienated we have become from the food we consume on a daily basis.
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Le Petit Lieutenant
Forget the super cop movies. Xavier Beauvois’ latest police flick shows it as real as it gets. 
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The Bridesmaid by Claude Chabrol
Set in a small provincial town in the Loire Atlantique region, near the city of Nantes, Claude Chabrol’s latest thriller spins the lives of an unlikely couple into an unexpected drama.
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Dans la tête de Michel Gondry
Quelques semaines après sa diffusion sur les écrans français, La Science des Rêves (The Science of Sleep), dernier long métrage de l’hyper-créatif Michel Gondry, débarque sur les écrans américains.
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Darshan, the embrace
In this documentary about the power of altruistic love, French director Jan sets to India where he follows the footsteps of Amma for one year.
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Army of Shadows
Jean-Pierre Melville is better known for his masterpiece Le Cercle Rouge and his unique depiction of the French underworld, gangsters, murderers, bank robbers, and the police trailing them.
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Lemming - almost as good as Harry
Lemming is not a perfect psychological thriller. Whereas French director Dominik Moll really hit the mark in 2000 With A Friend Like Harry,  a suspenseful, self-contained little gem of a thriller, he changes recipes for this new movie, with somewhat less success.
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Go for Zucker
Go for Zucker, a rousing comedy from the producers of GOODBYE, LENIN! Mixing slapstick humor with a jaundiced eye for sharply drawn social satire, not to mention a disarming dose of political incorrectness, ...
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The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
In the 1990s, a new genre of eastern European cinema conquered western movie theaters in the form of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s darkly realistic movies, first the Decalogue series, then the Bleu, Blanc, Rouge trilogy.
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A look at suicide killings 
Terrorism is a hot topic in America and Europe today. Everyone is asking the same questions: How should we respond to it? Should we be afraid of it? What does it mean for our future? Pierre Rehov, a French filmmaker, by no means purports to answer all of these questions.
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The Wild Dogs
In Thom Fitzgerald’s The Wild Dogs, Bucharest as a character may be flawed —this is not Rick Steve's Romania— but cinematographer Tom Harding’s nostalgic shots of the city's dilapidated grandeur, create a wonderful backdrop, for this intriguing film about moral, clashing cultures and good intentions.

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"Five Canadians went to Bucharest"
Interview with director of The Wild Dogs Thom Fitzgerald
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A Summer Day: growing up in rural France
Not all teenagers spend their lives on their cell phone or surfing the net. In Franck Guérin’s film, they kill their boredom by roaming the nearby woods and fields until the accidental death of one of them forces everyone...
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The Seattle International Film Festival gets Danish in 2006
If you are familiar to the fact that Seattleites see more movies per capita than any other city in the nation, it will not surprise you that one of our city’s biggest events, the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF), is considered to be the largest and most highly attended festivals in the US and...
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De père en fils
Dans son deuxième long-métrage, Sébastien Rose poursuit son exploration de la thématique familiale. Comédie tragique ou tragédie comique, La Vie avec Mon Père réunit un père et ses deux fils et distille de façon douce amère l’évolution de leurs relations transformées par la mort annoncée du patriarche.
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OSS117, l’agent secret made in France
Alors qu’il continue à faire un tabac en France depuis sa sortie en salle le 19 avril dernier, Hubert Bonnisseur de la Bath, alias OSS117, a traversé l’Atlantique à l’occasion du 32ème Seattle International Film Festival, où s’est déroulée la première projection nord-américaine du film sous les regards...
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For city lovers only
Remember the Auberge Espagnole? Aah… the good old days of being twenty some, abroad and confused, when carelessness, idealism and disappointment were our daily bread. Well, the good old days are not over, as Cédric Klapisch seems to tell us in his sequel Russian Dolls.
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Better, faster, crazier!
District B13
is an unsophisticated movie all right. No script (nothing that you could not write yourself anyway), no real acting - well, in fact, no real actor: only crazy martial artists, incredible athletes, and awe-inspiring stuntmen. Why would you pay to see yet another action-packed stunt movie?
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Dénoncer l’aliénation sociale
Comment en arrive-t-on à accepter l’inacceptable ?  Quels sont les mécanismes de cette violence invisible et pernicieuse qui mène parfois certains à commettre l’irréparable sur leur lieu de travail : se suicider ? Avec quelles conséquences pour ceux qui restent ?
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