Directed by Michael Haneke The Castle is a bureaucratic, alienating nightmare based on an unfinished Franz Kafka novel. In it a man named K. arrives to a wintery, barren village with the promise that he is to be made the Land Surveyor. When he arrives no one knows of such arrangements and he is instead … Continue reading The Castle (1997)
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The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
Directed by Rebecca Miller Jack and his daughter Rose live together on an isolated, mostly self-sustaining community that once housed dozens of young, free-spirited hippies. He is dying, and she has it in mind to kill herself when he does. If her pronouncement frightens him, he doesn't show it. Instead Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) quietly resolves … Continue reading The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
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