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Review of Atonement (2007)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 17 Aug 2007

Atonement is a fully formed pleasure of a film that only really stumbles in its editing and its closing moments…

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Review of Atonement (1971)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 17 Aug 2007

Atonement is a fully formed pleasure of a film that only really stumbles in its editing and its closing moments…

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Review of Persepolis (2007)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 20 Jul 2007

Quite simply one of the best book adaptations and animated films to have come out of Europe in recent years…

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Review of Conversations with My Gardener (2007)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 17 Jul 2007

Anyone expecting huge explosions and frenetic car chases might be disappointed, but it will satisfy those looking for an intimate drama in…

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Review of In a Dark Place (2006)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 15 Jul 2007

In A Dark Place, while certainly competently directed, acted and shot, is too overstuffed with possible explanations to make any sense…

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Review of Michou d'Auber (2007)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 11 Jul 2007

For viewers interested in the Franco-Algerian question but put off by Haneke's Cache or Bouchareb's Indigèenes (Days of Glory), Thomas…

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Review of Water Lilies (2007)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 07 Jun 2007

Suggests less the shallow waters of boxoffice safety than a teenage Catherine Breillat film…

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Review of California Dreamin' (2007)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 07 Jun 2007

Unfinished but certainly not unworthy; a diamond in the rough…

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Review of Flight of the Red Balloon (2007)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 24 May 2007

Contemplative and at times poetic, but strongest when caught up in the whirlwind of conflicting emotions of Binoche's character, an…

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Review of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 22 May 2007

An arresting true story and a ravishing visual creation, but the two remain separate entities that do not support one another but get in…

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Review of My Blueberry Nights (2007)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 18 May 2007

Could it be that the director feels less certain he gets his message across in a language that is not his…

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Review of Eden (2006)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 01 Apr 2007

Two touching performances only partially compensate for a weak script that never seems interested in challenging the superb Bella Martha…

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Review of Wolfsbergen (2007)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 21 Mar 2007

Nanouk Leopold comes into her own as a recognisable auteur with Wolfsbergen, a kaleidoscopic portrait of a Dutch family that plays to her strengths…

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Review of Children of Glory (2006)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 08 Mar 2007

Like Verhoeven's recent Black Book it offers a thrilling ride through recent European history modelled on the Hollywood blockbuster but…

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Review of La Vie en Rose (2007)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 15 Feb 2007

Marion Cotillard gives the performance of a lifetime in Olivier Dahan's fascinating but uneven Edith Piaf biopic La môme (La Vie en Rose)…

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Review of Hukkle (2002)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 06 Dec 2006

Some of the things encountered in Hukkle are brilliant cinematic conceits, which the director properly builds up to their punchline…

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Review of Into Great Silence (2005)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 06 Nov 2006

A sanctuary of silence, contemplation, respect and inquiry into a quickly vanishing tradition that helped build the world we live in…

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Review of The Man of My Life (2006)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 08 Oct 2006

There is a terrific film hiding away in these two hours of good (but not great) artistic melodrama…

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Review of Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 16 Sep 2006

Flat out the most exciting cinematic adaptation of a novel since Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy…

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Review of Black Book (2006)

By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for european-films.net (103) on 14 Sep 2006

A look at humans under the inhuman stress of war that is more nuanced than almost any grand-scale war film…

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