Yi Yi: A One and a Two (Taiwan , 2000)

Ratings - IMDB - 7.9 | Matacritic - 92 | Rotten Tomatoes - 96% fresh

Release Year - 2000
Country - Taiwan
Genres - Drama | Music | Romance

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"When it's over, you'll wish it were't. You'll also feel better about being alive. 

Do yourself a favor. Don't miss this one" - John Leonard, CBS News Sunday Morning

"A marvel of delicacy and humor!" - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"A delicate confident look at the wonder of humanity. Masterful!" - Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times

"Rich, funny, enormously humane ... Yang is a world class talent!" - David Ansen, Newsweek

Synopsis : Yi yi is a Taiwanese film about the emotional struggles of a businessman and the lives of his middle-class Taiwanese family in Taipei seen through three generations.

Yi Yi is an epic story about the Taipei Jian family seen through three different perspectives: the middle-aged father NJ (Nien-Jen Wu), the young son Yang-Yang (Jonathan Chang), and the teenage daughter, Ting-Ting (Kelly Lee). The three-hour piece starts with a wedding, concludes with a funeral, and contemplates areas of human life in between. The father, NJ, is unsatisfied with his work and the desire of his business partners to enter into a deal with a well-known Japanese videogame company. While his partners are only concerned about making money, NJ finds that his honest nature is unappreciated in the commercial realm. To his surprise, he finds a connection with the Japanese software mogul, Ota. A former old flame, Sherry, tries to walk into his life after a chance reunion. His youngest son has troubles at school with his teachers, while his daughter has to handle a love triangle involving her friend next door and her troubled boyfriend. All three try to deal with their problems while also caring for NJ's aged mother-in-law, who is in a coma, and in the absence of NJ's wife, who has left for a Buddhist retreat after facing a midlife crisis. In addition, A-Di, NJ's overweight brother-in-law who marries a starlet at the start of the film, has to wrestle with his demanding wife and a former love, complicating matters within this extended family.

Awards

• Won Best Director at Cannes Film Festival
• Nominated for Palme d'Or
• Won Best Foreign Film
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association
• National Society of Film Critics
• New York Film Critics Circle Awards
• Other Awards
• Karlovy Vary International Film Festival's Netpac Award
• Vancouver International Film Festival's Chief Dan George Humanitarian Award
• Sarajevo Film Festival's Panorama Jury Award

Lists

• Selected by the British film magazine Sight and Sound as one of the ten greatest films of the past 25 years
• Ranked as the 3rd most critically acclaimed film of the 21st century by website They Shoot Pictures Don't They?

Special Mention

• Named Best Film of the Year by prominent publications and intellectuals
• A.O.Scott, New York Times
• Susan Sontag, Artforum
• Michael Atkinson, Village Voice
• Steven Rosen, Denver Post
• Stephen Garrett, Nicole Keeter , Time Out NY
• John Anderson, Jan Stuart, Gene Seymour, Newsday

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Trois couleurs: Bleu aka Three Colors: Blue (France , 1993)

Ratings - IMDB – 7.9

Release Year - 1993

Country - France

Genres – Drama | Music | Mystery

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Synopsis - First part of "The Three Colors Trilogy" trilogy

First of a trilogy of films dealing with contemporary French society concerns how the wife of a composer deals with the death of her husband and child.

Three Colors: Blue is the first part of Kieslowski's trilogy on France's national motto: Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity. Blue is the story of Julie who loses her husband, an acclaimed European composer and her young daughter in a car accident. The film's theme of liberty is manifested in Julie's attempt to start life anew free of personal commitments, belongings grief and love. She intends to spiritually commit suicide by withdrawing from the world and live completely independently, anonymously and in solitude in the Parisian metropolis. Despite her intentions, people from her former and present life intrude with their own needs. However, the reality created by the people who need and care about her, a surprising discovery and the music around which the film revolves heals Julie and irresistably draws her back to the land of the living.

Awards - Best Film at the Venice Film Festival

Best European Film : Goya Awards (Spain's Academy Awards)

Nominated for 3 Golden Globes

Total 19 wins

Lists - Roger Ebert included the trilogy in its entirety to his "Great Movies" list.

Ranked #11 in Empire magazines "The 33 Greatest Movie Trilogies" in 2010.

Ranked #14 in Empire magazines "The 100 Best Films Of World Cinema" in 2010.

Special Mention - The whole trilogy received ranking of 100 % on Rotten Tomatoes based on 5 reviews; The first part, Blue got also 100 % based on 32 reviews

Rated by more than 30k users on IMDb

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Okuribito aka Departures (Japan , 2008)

Ratings - IMDB - 8.1 | Metacritic - 68
Release Year - 2008
Country - Japan
Genres - Drama | Music
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Synopsis: A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.


Daigo Kobayashi is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself without a job. Daigo decides to move back to his old hometown with his wife to look for work and start over. He answers a classified ad entitled "Departures" thinking it is an advertisement for a travel agency only to discover that the job is actually for a "Nokanshi" or "encoffineer," a funeral professional who prepares deceased bodies for burial and entry into the next life. While his wife and others despise the job, Daigo takes a certain pride in his work and begins to perfect the art of "Nokanshi," acting as a gentle gatekeeper between life and death, between the departed and the family of the departed. The film follows his profound and sometimes comical journey with death as he uncovers the wonder, joy and meaning of life and living.

Awards - Won Oscar (Best Foreign Language Film of the Year - 2009); Best Film (Award of the Japanese Academy - 2009) ; Audience Award (Hawaii International Film Festival - 2008) ; Best Asian Film (Hong Kong Film Awards - 2010) 

Special Mention - Rated by more than 14k users on IMDb

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Crna macka, beli macor aka Black Cat, White Cat (Yugoslavia , 1998)

Ratings - IMDB – 8.0 | Metacritic - 73

Release Year - 1998

Country - Yugoslavia

Genres – Comedy | Musical | Romance

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Synopsis: Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her. But none of the two care much for an arranged marriage: Zare is in love with Ida, Afrodita is waiting for the man of her dreams.


Awards & Lists – 4 wins

Special Mention - Rated by more tahn 19k users on IMDB

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