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On my way to work, I remembered when I had very definite favorites in my thirties. Europa Europa (1990) a thriller about a Jewish teenage man/boy hiding from the Nazis in Poland as a Hitler Youth. It was based on a true story. Just harrowing!
Insomnia (1997), not the lame American version about a serial killer, but the noirish Norwegian thriller filmed during the endless daylight of a northern summer about a man who kills his young girlfriend during a fight. It has Stellen Skarsgard at his peak, as the detective, who kills his partner. Skarsgard hunts done the murderer while covering his own tracks. It is riveting!
Une liaison pornographique (1999) a french film about a love affair between a man and a woman who meet throught the personals in a pornographic magazine. It is called An Affair of Love in English which I thought was as clunky a title as the French but at least doesn't confuse it with the American remake of Love Affair. It is sexy, funny and sad as they fall in love and realize that their sexy romp won't or shouldn't translate to a relationship. Sergi Lopez and Nathalie Baye are so sexy and fun.
These three movies and a few more took up a lot of space in my head for a long time. They were just immersive and devastating to me.
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