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Schlafer aka Sleeper, 2005, Directed by: Benjamin Heisenberg. Cast: Mehdi Nebbou and Loretta Pflaum
Johannes is new at the department. One day he is approached with the mission of reporting on a certain Algerian colleague an assumed sleeper spy.
Running time: 100 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: none
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

Rumba, 2008, Directed by: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Rruno Romy. Cast: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Teachers in a rural school, happy couple Fiona and Dom have a common passion: Latin Dancing. One night, after a glorious dance competition, they have a car accident and see their lives turn upside down. Rumba or how optimism and humour can overcome fatality!
Running time: 77 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ****
Cast performance: ****
Music: ***
Cinematography: ****
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Yakuza

We Live in Public, 2009, Directed by: Sergei Dvortsevoy. Cast: Josh Harris
A documentary focusing on the life of dot-com entrepreneur Josh Harris,
Running time: 90 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: None
Music: None
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Tulpan, 2008, Directed by: Sergei Dvortsevoy. Cast: Tolepbergen Baisakalov
A bittersweet side story involves a Russian naval cadet’s failed attempt to win a closeted beauty (Tulpan) because she doesn’t like his flappy ears..
Running time: 100 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: None
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

Okuribito aka Departures, 2008, Directed by: Yojiro Takita. Cast: Masahiro Motoki and Ryoko Hirosue
A newly unemployed cellist takes a job preparing the dead for funerals.
Running time: 130 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

L’heure d’ete aka Summer Hours, 2008, Directed by: Olivier Assayas. Cast: Juliette Binoche and Jeremie Renier
Two brothers and a sister witness the disappearance of their childhood memories when they must relinquish the family belongings to ensure their deceased mother’s succession.
Running time: 103 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: ***
Final chouski rating: Threeski

L’iceberg, 2005, Directed by: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon and Rruno Romy. Cast: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
Slapstick comedy about a runaway wife obsessed with ice.
Running time: 94 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: **
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Le Fils aka The Son, 2002, Directed by: Jean-Pierre Dardenne and Luc Darenne. Cast: Olivier Gourment and Morgan Marinne
A carpenter takes on an apprentice who harmed his family when he was younger.
Running time: 103 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ***
Music: None
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Ich Bin Die Andere aka I Am the Other Woman, 2002, Directed by: Margarethe von Trotta. Cast: Katja Riemann and Armin Mueller -Stahl
A successful civil engineer becomes obsessed with a slightly older woman suffering from multiple-personality syndrome.
Running time: 104 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: *
Cast performance: **
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

Rosetta 1999, Directed by: Jean-Pierre and Lu Dardenne. Cast: Emillie Dequenne
It is about a seventeen year old girl who lives in a trailer park with her mother. Trying to survive and to escape her situation, she attempts to find and hold a job that will allow her to move out of the caravan and away from her mother.
Running time: 95 minutes
Direction: ****
Script, overall story: ***
Cast performance: ****
Music: **
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Paris 2008, Directed by: Cedric Klapisch. Cast: Juliette Binoche and Romanin Duris
This is the story of a Parisian who is sick and thinks he may die. His condition makes him look at all the people he meets in a new and different way. Imagining his death suddenly gives new meaning to his life, to other peoples’ lives, and to the life of the whole city.
Running time: 130 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: **
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

Quiet Chaos aka Caos Calmo 2008, Directed by: Antonio Luigi Grimaldi. Cast: Nanni Moretti and Valeria Golino
A executive help his 10 year old daughter come to terms with the death of her mother, his wife.
Running time: 107 minutes
Direction: **
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: ***
Music: ***
Cinematography: ***
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Twoski

Goodbye Solo, 2008, Directed by: Ramin Bahrani. Cast: Souleymane Sy Savane and Red West
Two men form an unlikely friendship that will change both of their lives forever.
Running time: 91 minutes
Direction: ***
Script, overall story: **
Cast performance: ***
Music: **
Cinematography: **
Overall Production: **
Final chouski rating: Threeski

Revanche aka German title Revenge, 2008.
Directed by: Gotz Spielmann. Cast: Johannes Kirsch and Orina Potapenko
Crime, Drama. Austrian film about a pimp in a relationship with one of his prostitute, and he decide to do rob a bank with her, but it something gone wrong.
NR Rated, but lots Nudity.
Running time: 121 min
Direction: ****
Script, overall story: ****
Cast performance: ****
Music: None Music for the film
Cinematography: ****
Overall Production: ****
Final chouski rating: Yakuza