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To Each His Own Cinema

2007 · 100 min

A patchwork of brief, personal cinematic reveries that drifts between nostalgia, playfulness and melancholy, rewarding patience and a love of film.

Directed by: Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jane Campion
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah Ahangarani

Tagline: A declaration of love on the big screen.
Overview: Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmakers to produce short pieces exploring the multifarious facets of cinema and their perspective on the state of their chosen artform in the early 21st century.

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Directed by: Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jane Campion
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Pegah Ahangarani

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: art
memory
love
isolation
death
Places: big city
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: anthology
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Horror	2
Humour	5
Realism	6
Romance	4
Tension	3
Darkness	4
Complexity	8
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: comedy, drama
Directed by: Hou Hsiao-hsien, Jane Campion, Abbas Kiarostami, Michael Cimino, Raúl Ruiz, Joel Coen
Written by: Andrei Konchalovsky, Zou Jingzhi, Wong Kar-wai, Zhang Yimou
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Music: Eleni Karaindrou, Mychael Danna
Cinematography: Alain Marcoen, Andreas Sinanos
Runtime: 100 min
Country: France, Japan
Languages: Danish, English, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Yiddish, Mandarin

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