Back to At Home INTERNATIONAL ARTHOUSEA selection of exceptional films from around the world. Romanian New Wave star Porumboi’s sly comedy about history as farce, involving a local talk show host, an alcoholic professor, and a part-time Santa Claus.12:08 EAST OF BUCHARESTCorneliu Porumboiu | 89 min | 2006 A tender, sad, and comic debut from Campion about female friendships, and the forces that pull them apart.2 FRIENDSJane Campion | 76 min | 1986 Amirpour’s entirely original thriller about a mysterious, chador-clad female bloodsucker in the dilapidated Iranian ghost town of Bad City.A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHTAna Lily Amarpour | 101 min | 2014 Jia Zhangke’s jarringly to-the-moment wuxia film focuses on four individuals in four provinces, each pushed towards violence by rampant injustice.A TOUCH OF SINJia Zhangke | 130 min | 2013 A nonfiction group portrait of a family of nine who find themselves evicted from their home in the wild and forced to adapt to life in the capital.ACASA, MY HOMERadu Ciorniciuc | 86 min | 2020 Director Tsai sits with muse Lee Kang-sheng, discussing all manner of things professional and very personal.AFTERNOONTsai Ming Liang | 137 min | 2015 A bracingly immediate look at street life (and death) in a divided city.AJAMIYaron Shani and Scandar Copti | 124 min | 2009 Wertmüller’s wild, woolly working-class satire follows a cadre of Sicilian migrants struggling to make ends meet.ALL SCREWED UPLina Wertmüller | 95 min | 1974 Pollak’s unabashedly emotional musical melodrama centers on a world-famous conductor who returns to his hometown and rediscovers the joy of music.AS IT IS IN HEAVENKay Pollak | 133 min | 2004 In a backwater coastal village in Brazil, an aimless young woman is jolted out of her ennui by the discovery of a corpse.AUGUST WINDSGabriel Mascaro | 77 min | 2014 Mysius’s beautifully enigmatic feature debut follows a 13-year-old girl who learns she is about to lose her eyesight.AVASadaf Foroughi | 103 min | 2017 Introduced by cinematographer and filmmaker Bradford Young, ASC.BABYLONFranco Rosso | 95 min | 1980 A singularly sober, somber war film in which action takes a backseat to meditation on the futility of fighting.BEAUFORTJoseph Cedar | 131 min | 2007 Giuseppe Pignone’s tender documentary pays tribute to Line Wertmüller, tracing her early days as an assistant to Fellini through to her rise to international arthouse celebrity.BEHIND THE WHITE GLASSESValerio Ruiz | 112 min | 2015 A vibrant work of courage and clarity in which voices read a poetic text by Jarman—who was dying of AIDS, and would be gone within a year— over an unceasing, monochromatic blue frame.BLUEDerek Jarman | 79 min | 1993 A brazenly anachronistic and sensual imagining of the life of Renaissance renegade Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, and one of the finest British films of the 1980s.CARAVAGGIODerek Jarman | 93 min | 1986 Drawing inspiration from Tourneur’s I Walked with a Zombie, Costa creates an atmospheric and unsettling rumination on his homeland’s colonial past.CASA DE LAVAPedro Costa | 105 min | 1994 Entitled rich kid Jean gets a crash course in class consciousness when his family drops out of the ranks of Rio de Janeiro’s moneyed elite.CASA GRANDEFellipe Barbosa | 115 min | 2014 A landmark work of Portuguese cinema that tells the story of a young man’s return from abroad to his hometown fishing village in lyrical, neorealist style.CHANGE OF LIFEPaulo Rocha | 94 min | 1966 A wealthy mother is willing to do anything to protect her wastrel son in this scathing indictment of corruption in contemporary Romania.CHILD'S POSECãlin Peter Netzer | 112 min | 2013 Szabó’s historical drama follows the rise of Alfred Redl (a riveting Klaus Maria Brandeur) through the ranks of the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s army before the outbreak of WWI.COLONEL REDLItsvan Szabo | 144 min | 1984 When Kata’s husband goes into hiding in WWII-era Hungary, his resistance comrades instruct her to go live with another man.CONFIDENCEItsvan Szabo | 95 min | 1980 Visconti brings his outsized emotionality to the chamber drama form, broaching subjects of sex, fascism, and aesthetics in the tale of an aging Roman art historian.CONVERSATION PIECELuchino Visconti | 121 min | 1974 Tsai’s gradual refinement of his cinema to bare essentials reaches a new level of serene beauty in Days.DAYSTsai Ming Liang | 127 min | 2020 An inimitable survey of the work of Uruguayan architect and engineer Eladio Dieste.DIESTE (URUGUAY)Heinz Emigholz | 95 min | 2017 Elia Suleiman’s nearly dialogue-free depiction of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation finds bleak, bitter humor in the tensions and taboos of a divided society.DIVINE INTERVENTIONElia Suleiman | 92 min | 2002 A kinky gothic chiller from the maestro, Franco, about an orphan sent to spend the Yuletide holidays in her uncle’s surprise-filled home.DR. ORLOFF’S MONSTERJesús Franco | 90 min | 1964 A work of noose-tight construction, foreboding, surreal, and brimming with blighted sensuality.EDEN AND AFTERALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET | 93 min | 1970 Jancsó’s radically original, downright hypnotic retelling of the Ancient Greek myth of Elektra.ELEKTRA, MY LOVEMIKLÓS JANCSÓ | 70 min | 1974 Egoyan’s second film tells the story of one man’s dissolution and reunion through a variety of video imagesFAMILY VIEWINGAtom Egoyan | 86 min | 1987 Emigholz’s tribute to the trailblazing American architect Bruce Goff.GOFF IN THE DESERTHeinz Emigholz | 110 min | 2003 Tsai’s minimalist yet multifaceted film in which a soon-to-be-shut-down movie palace, the Fo-Ho—its screening room, projection booth, hallways, bathrooms—becomes a sort of haunted house.GOODBYE, DRAGON INNTSAI MING-LIANG | 82 min | 2003 High school teacher Veronica is imprisoned for a crime she didn’t commit, while the ethical lapses of her health inspector father (a superb David Thewlis) lead to tragedy.GUEST OF HONOURAtom Egoyan | 95 min | 2019 Russian giant Aleksei German’s widely lauded final film transforms a science-fiction classic into a visceral, headlong wallow in medieval muck.HARD TO BE A GODAleksei German | 177 min | 2013 The story of a terse long-distance relationship, charmingly told through a shuffled stack of love letters.HILL OF FREEDOMHong Sangsoo | 66 min | 2014 A deceptively simple story starring Isabelle Huppert, which, as lensed by the great Agnès Godard, takes on the enchanted air of a modern-day fable.HOMEUrsula Meier | 94 min | 2009 A humane, heartbreaking meditation on aging and art by the legendary Manoel de Oliveira, a sprightly 94-year-old when it was released.I’M GOING HOMEManoel de Oliveira | 90 min | 2001 Isabelle Huppert plays three variations on the role of a Frenchwoman abroad in Korea in her first venture into Hong’s peculiar, soju-soaked world.IN ANOTHER COUNTRYHong Sangsoo | 89 min | 2012 A delicate, thoughtful, and intimate debut about teenager Aimie, who moves from South Korea to Toronto with her newly divorced mother.IN BETWEEN DAYSSo Yong Kim | 83 min | 2006 A hilariously deadpan documentary profile of a soccer obsessive, from one of the leading lights of the Romanian New Wave.INFINITE FOOTBALLCorneliu Porumboiu | 70 min | 2018 An indigenous Guatemalan girl finds herself torn between traditional society and the modern world.IXCANULJayro Bustamante | 93 min | 2015 A bittersweet and buoyant tale of youth’s adversity and adaptation.KILLAAvinash Arun | 107 min | 2014 One of Denis’s most exhilarating films, which charts the travels of a mercenary (Michel Subor) as he journeys from the snowy Alps to Korea to Tahiti in search of a heart transplant and his son.L’INTRUSCLAIRE DENIS | 130 min | 2004 A sui generis marriage of war film and sunshine pop musical, La France follows Sylvie Testud’s lovelorn heroine into the trenches of WWI to search for her missing husband.LA FRANCESerge Bozon | 102 min | 2007 Green’s meditative, exquisite film follows an unhappily married architect and his wife on a trip to follow the trail of Baroque master builder Francesco Borromini.LA SAPIENZAEugène Green | 101 min | 2015 Philosophy and action merge as one in wuxia legend King Hu’s atmospheric and hypnotic film, shot in the rugged terrain of South Korea.LEGEND OF THE MOUNTAINKing Hu | 192 min | 1979 An intimate, illuminating chronicle of Argentine master filmmaker Lucrecia Martel.LIGHT YEARSManuel Abramovich | 75 min | 2017 An atmospheric, neon-drenched film noir fever dream from the Chinese poet and filmmaker Bi Gan that follows a young man as he returns home for his father’s funeral, before traveling down a winding road into the past.LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHTBi Gan | 138 min | 2019 Wertmüller’s 1930s-set tragicomedy follows country bumpkin anarchist Giancarlo Giannini on his mission to assassinate Mussolini.LOVE & ANARCHYLina Wertmüller | 120 min | 1973 Stéphane Brizé’s deceptively minor-key film about the developing romance between a married man and his son’s homeroom teacher, starring a standout Vincent Lindon.MADEMOISELLE CHAMBONStéphane Brizé | 101 min | 2009 Vincent Lindon is subtly overwhelming as unemployed everyman Thierry, who, after losing his factory job, must submit to a series of humiliating ordeals in his search for work.THE MEASURE OF A MANStéphane Brizé | 91 min | 2015 István Szabó’s Oscar-winning political drama, a stunning study in moral rot.MEPHISTOItsvan Szabo | 146 min | 1981 A troubled 23-year-old chances across footage of an Armenian family who’d given up their infant son, and decides to present himself as their long-lost child.NEXT OF KINAtom Egoyan | 70 min | 1984 Tarkovsky’s penultimate, semi-autobiographical film follows a homesick Russian musicologist in Italy, with the Tuscan countryside rendered a melancholy dreamscape.NOSTALGHIAAndrei Tarkovsky | 125 min | 1983 The compassionate and disarmingly beautiful opening of Costa’s astonishing career.O SANGUEPedro Costa | 95 min | 1989 Emigholz’s study of Nervi, the poet of poured concrete.PARABETON: PIER LUIGI NERVI AND ROMAN CONCRETEHeinz Emigholz | 100 min | 2012 Emigholz’s biography/cultural history focuses on French architects and construction engineers Auguste and Gustave Perret.PERRET IN FRANCE AND ALGERIAHeinz Emigholz | 110 min | 2012 A visiting director falls for a shy local painter, in Hong’s twice-told tale.RIGHT NOW, WRONG THENHong Sangsoo | 121 min | 2015 Alain Delon shines in Visconti’s epic devotional tragedy, a film of violent, operatic feeling.ROCCO AND HIS BROTHERSLuchino Visconti | 179 min | 1960 Jarman’s feature debut revels in the male form while recounting the biblical story of the martyrdom by arrows of St. Sebastian, a tale of repressed desire turned to sadism.SEBASTIANEDerek Jarman | 86 min | 1976 The controversial, absurd, and uproarious film that made director Lina Wertmüller the talk of film culture, and garnered her the first Best Director Academy Award nomination for a woman.SEVEN BEAUTIESLina Wertmüller | 106 min | 1975 Enormously empathetic, deeply moving, and entirely free of sentimental cheats, Sister offers an intimate depiction of destitution amidst decadence, so vivid that you can almost feel the slushy chill.SISTERUrsula Meier | 98 min | 2012 Rothemund’s riveting historical drama features Julia Jentsch in an award-winning performance as the most member of anti-Nazi German student group the White Rose.SOPHIE SCHOLL: THE FINAL DAYSMark Rothemund | 120 min | 2005 A coruscating kaleidoscope tangled relationships, the confusion of life, and its filmed reflection.SPEAKING PARTSAtom Egoyan | 93 min | 1989 A dialogue drama plays out against a backdrop of Uruguayan buildings by Eladio Dieste, Julie Vilamajó, and Arno Brandlhuber.STREETSCAPES [DIALOGUE]Heinz Emigholz | 132 min | 2017 Italian master Michael Antonioni’s feature debut sees a pair of lovers become co-conspirators in murder.STORY OF A LOVE AFFAIRMichelangelo Antonioni | 98 min | 1950 Successive Slidings of Pleasure finds Alain Robbe-Grillet blending sadomasochism, sacrilege, and psychedelia to delirious effect.SUCCESSIVE SLIDINGS OF PLEASUREALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET | 105 min | 1974 A delicate, charming film from Kawase about intergenerational misunderstandings and the patient, arduous process of artful food preparation.SWEET BEANNaomi Kawase | 113 min | 2015 Wertmüller’s battle royale of the sexes/classes, a powder keg of a film that’s lost none of its ability to generate controversy almost 50 years after its release.SWEPT AWAYLina Wertmüller | 114 min | 1974 A tour de force of montage filmmaking illustrating the rise and fall of Romania’s notorious totalitarian and his wife.THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF NICOLAE CEAUSESCUAndrei Ujica | 180 min | 2011 Roffman’s feature debut follows a straight-and-narrow cat who falls into a seedy underworld of beatnik baddies, led by a young Peter Falk.THE BLOODY BROODJulian Roffman | 80 min | 1959 Imhoof’s suspenseful WWII-set drama follows a ragtag band of Austrian Jewish refugees—and one Nazi deserter—as they attempt to gain asylum in Switzerland.THE BOAT IS FULLMarkus Imhoof | 101 min | 1981 Set entirely on a rotting fishing boat anchored on the Korean coast, Kim’s elegiac, unexpectedly sweet film centers on an elderly man and his charge, a teenage girl.THE BOWKim Ki-duk | 90 min | 2005 Eve, a shy young woman working as a maid at a posh Mexico City hotel, pursues a vision of a better life.THE CHAMBERMAIDLila Avilés | 102 min | 2019 Puiu’s landmark scabrous satire follows the ailing elderly Mr. Lazarescu on an infernal journey through the Romanian public health system.THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCUCristi Puiu | 153 min | 2005 Part game show, part intellectual tug-of-war, Lars von Trier challenges an elder Danish filmmaker to remake his film under strict parameters.THE FIVE OBSTRUCTIONSLars von Trier | 90 min | 2003 Borsos’s beloved adventure film gives Richard Farnsworth a career-best role as a former stagecoach robber who emerges from prison after 33 years to find a changed world—then goes right back to his old ways, planning a daring train robbery.THE GREY FOXPhillip Borsos | 92 min | 1982 The Mask isn’t just the first Canadian horror feature and the first Canadian film shot in 3D—it’s also a landmark of psychedelic cinema, dating from a time before most of the world had heard of LSD.THE MASKJulian Roffman | 83 min | 1961 A man and a woman traveling through South Korea’s mountainous east are gradually revealed to be linked by the past.THE POWER OF KANGWON PROVINCEHong Sangsoo | 110 min | 1998 Tarkovsky’s final masterpiece is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation.THE SACRIFICEAndrei Tarkovsky | 149 min | 1986 The first film in Hùng’s acclaimed Vietnam Trilogy is a beautifully detailed, sublimely sensitive romance, which observes life within two different Saigon families.THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYATran Anh Hung | 104 min | 1993 Giancarlo Giannini stars as a laborer being wooed by both the unions and the mafioso in Wertmüller’s raunchy and romantic comic drama.THE SEDUCTION OF MIMILina Wertmüller | 108 min | 1972 Parisian teenager Victor sets out in search of a father figure in Green’s effervescent modern-day reworking of the nativity story, featuring Mathieu Amalric.THE SON OF JOSEPHEugéne Green | 113 min | 2016 Serge Bozon’s screwball comedy comes in a policier package, in which the central mystery opens onto the larger subject of France’s history of colonial crime.TIP TOPSerge Bozon | 106 min | 2013 A freewheeling visual essay that mines cinematic archives to contemplate Earth’s nearest neighbor.TO THE MOONTadhg O'Sullivan | 76 min | 2021 A documentary-fiction hybrid essay film combining interviews with a narrative centered on two characters struggling with a sense of alienation from their bodies.TOUCH ME NOTAdina Pintilie | 123 min | 2018 An essential but lesser-known Claire Denis film, in which she documents the creation of a new dance work by Mathilde Monnier.TOWARDS MATHILDEClaire Denis | 84 min | 2005 A pulp pastiche laid out with cool, mathematical symmetry, featuring Jean-Louis Trintignant at his most theatrical.TRANS-EUROP-EXPRESSALAIN ROBBE-GRILLET | 95 min | 1966 A beautifully observed story of a middle-aged man who must choose between his wife and younger mistress.TUESDAY, AFTER CHRISTMASRadu Muntean | 99 min | 2010 Dvortsevoy’s debut feature is a charming, vivacious depiction of an ancient way of life with an uncertain future.TULPANSergey Dvortsevoy | 100 min | 2008 Vacationing 22-year-old Nicole wiles away days in her middle-class Québéc neighborhood in Lafleur’s feather-light depiction of quarterlife drift and suburban malaise.TU DORS NICOLEStéphane Lafleur | 93 min | 2014 A typically wry meditation from Hong on the vagaries of memory and the deceits of subjectivity.VIRGIN STRIPPED BARE BY HER BACHELORSHong Sangsoo | 126 min | 2000 Costa’s solemn and sumptuous Vitalina Varela gives center stage to Vitalena, a Cape Verdean widow, as she begins to establish a new life.VITALINA VARELAPedro Costa | 124 min | 2019 A young Mumbai native falls for a punkish artist and has to dream up ways to keep himself in the US in David Rathod’s charming ’80s romantic comedy.WEST IS WESTDavid Rathod | 80 min | 1989 A suspenseful culture-clash drama about a young woman’s repression and resilience that packs a considerable emotional punch.WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAYIram Haq | 106 min | 2018 An intimate insight into Costa’s creative process through his dialogue with two of his premiere artistic inspirations, filmmaker duo Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.WHERE DOES YOUR HIDDEN SMILE LIE?Pedro Costa | 104 min | 2001 A sprawling historical drama told with only thirteen remarkable sustained shots.WINTER WINDMIKLOS JANCSó | 80 min | 1969 A creatively blocked filmmaker engages in an affair with the girlfriend of his friend and sometime collaborator at a coastal resort.WOMAN ON THE BEACHHong Sangsoo | 127 min | 2006