RON’s TOP TEN FOREIGN FILMS for 2004
** twice-as-good a year for foreign films than 2003 (when I had a Top Five list)
1. A VERY LONG ENGAGEMENT (France)
>>French gamine Audrey Tatou cracks the #1 spot for the second straight year!
2. The Motorcycle Diaries (Brazil)
3. Bad Education (Spain)
4. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring (Korea)
5. Since Otar Left… (Georgia)
(tie) The Return (Russia)
7. The Belvaux Trilogy (France) (“On the Run” / “An Amazing Couple” / “After the Life”)
8. Goodbye, Lenin! (Germany)
9. Distant (Turkey)
10. Twilight Samurai (Japan)
Honorable Mention:
Crimson Gold (Iran) – Strayed (France) – Intimate Strangers (France) – Hero (China) –Moolaade (Senegal) – Red Lights (France) – Zelary (Czech) –
The Story of the Weeping Camel (Mongolia) [this was NOT a documentary!]
-- and finally -- Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman (Japan)
[the director who made the gay samurai movie is back with a samurai musical !! (sort-of)]
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