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Perhaps one of things this thread could be about is off-beat, quirky, etc, films made before, say, 1995, and/or not in English, thus movies that virtually everyone interested in 'off-beat' cinema may not already know about, or if they do, have seen.
My suggestions (these are fairly well-known I realise, but still ...):
Harold And Maude: The tale of a troubled, death-obsessed young man from a wealthy American family who's prone to faking his own suicide, driving around in a hearse and so on, who finds redemption in his love for a free-spirited pensioner he meets at a funeral. Touching, uplifting and sad in equal measure, but also very funny, it wears its early Seventies release date a lot less heavily than other films from the period. The scene where Harold and Maude are pursued by the motorcycle cop is simply the best chase in movies evah.
Replusion: Early Polanski, starring Catherine Deneuve as a very attractive, but troubled, young woman in Swinging Sixties London who can't leave the house without being approached by men on the street. So she stops bothering, after a while. The flat becomes a cage. The dark side of the sexual revolution, then, but once she's shut up on her own in her apartment for a long weekend it gets worse, and worse. The ending's a bit rushed, but it's still the least appropriate 'date' movie in the history of cinema evah, I think, and I do kind of know that from personal, if inadvertent experience (I hadn't seen it before.) Still well worth a look though - as with 'Eraserhead*,' it's a film that's always going to retain its capacity to disturb.
* Though it's a bit gauche to even mention that, I know. |
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