2000 - Movies you must see

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The movie selection from the book "Movies you must see before you die" - the 90s selection. Selected and written by leading international critics.

Nueve reinas
Movie
"A lot of walking occurs in this engaging Argentinean crime lark. The on-foot journey of two swindlers, Marcos (Ricardo Darin) and Juan (Gastón Pauls offers, in passing, an understated documentary on Buenos Aires in the 21st century. But as these characters imagine the scams they might pull."
La cautiva
Movie
"Inspired by La Prisonnière, the fifth volume of Marcel Proust's novel Remembrance of Things Past, Chantal Akerman's film La Captive is eerily reminiscent of Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958). Twisting themes of obsession, passion, and desire, Akerman focuses on Simon (Stansilas Merhar)."
Deseando amar
Movie
"It takes place in a tiny and tightly packed tenement house in Hong Kong during the 1960s, where two neighbors spend so much time in close proximity that it's no wonder their lives ultimately cross. Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung suspect that their respective spouses are having an affair."
Gladiator
Movie
"Hot off filming The Insider, Russell Crowe lost 40 lbs of weight and built up his muscles to play thinking women's sex object maximus, the Roman general turned gladiator, in Hollywood's first true Roman epic for over three decades. Exiled when his mentor, Caesar Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) dies"
Ali Zaoua, príncipe de Casablanca
Movie
"The lives and fates of street children, society's castaways, are an ongoing source of fascination for filmmakers, and given the ever-growing gap between rich and poor around the globe, there's no end of fresh material in sight."
Kippur
Movie
"Since his debut in the early 1980s with a series of documentaries that ran afoul of Israeli television, Amos Gitai has become known as Israel's most provocative filmmaker. Despite his courage and good instincts, at times his films can feel somewhat clumsy and inept-but not Kippur."
Yi Yi
Movie
"Edward Yang's most accessible movie and probably his best since A Brighter Summer Day, this 2000 feature follows three generations of a contemporary Taipei family from a wedding to a funeral, and although it takes almost three Working once again with nonprofessional actors. "
Réquiem por un sueño
Movie
"Darren Aronofsky's follow-up to his acclaimed debut Pi (1998) is nothing short of remarkable. Requiem for a Dream follows four characters-Harry Goldfarb (Jared Leto), his mother (Ellen Burstyn),girlfriend (Jennifer Connelly), and best friend (Marlon Wayans)--through the nightmare world of addiction."
Amores perros
Movie
"Quentin Tarantino had such a pronounced and immediate effect on American filmmakers that it was only a matter of time before his influence stretched into other countries. Amores Perros-which translates roughly to "Love's a Bitch” shows that by 2000 the Tarantino model of stylish violence and jumble."
Los padres de ella
Movie
"If proof were needed, King of Comedy, Midnight Run, and Analyze This removed all doubt-Robert De Niro isn't just a serious Method actor, he is also a great comic talent. In Meet The Parents he not only raises a laugh but also matches seasoned comedian Ben Stiller scene for scene."
Signs & Wonders
Movie
"Director Jonathan Nossiter and screenwriter James Lasdun, who collaborated on the very promising Sunday (1997), reunite for this ambitious and ambiguous thriller involving an Americanized businessman in Athens, Alec (Stellan Skarsgård), who has twice left his Greek-American wife Marjorie."
Tigre y dragón
Movie
"Director Ang Lee has said with Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was quite simply to make the best martial arts movie possible, and the artistic success and popularity of the end result indicates he achieved just that. Working from a script by his longtime collaborator James Schamus."
Traffic
Movie
"It took until 2000 for Hollywood to realize what otaliene had in direct Steven Soderbergh, despite his superb 1989 debut, Sex, les, and video tean masterful follow-ups like out of sight (1998) and the comey (1999). "
Los Espigadores y la espigadora
Movie
"Digital technology has revolutionized the boy name is mere democratic and less expenses that evolution can still be rigorous debe What it is the one in digital movies though is sense of beauty or style any eye for making movies. Even more, the persones that are come out of the total revolution."
Memento
Movie
"Nolan's second feature is a near-perfect psychological puzzle. Known to movie based on his brother Jonah's story Memento Mori, British director Christopher buffs as "the film filmed backward," this modern film noir is told in stops and starts. Scenes appear in reverse chronological order."
Bailar en la oscuridad
Movie
"This self-referential musical plays for the most part in director Lars von Trier's Dogme95 style, with edgy camera work and improv-seeming performances. But it repeatedly segues into fantasized songs that don't look like any other musical numbers in film, with their video blur look-brighter."
O Brother!
Movie
"Titled after a fictitious film mentioned by the hero of Preston Sturges's 1941 classic, Sullivan's Travels, and based loosely on Homer's Odyssey, Joel and Ethan Coen's arch period comedy is a journey through the marvels and the madness of America's Deep South during the Great Depression."
Amelie
Movie
"Debuting and succeeding as it did not long before the attacks of 2001, Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie nonetheless gained even more attention and acclaim after it went into wider release in the months immediately following September with. The right movie at the right time."
¿Qué hora es?
Movie
"In many ways, What Time Is It There? is Ming-liang Tsai's most exciting and original film to date. The obsessive constants in his first five features-the same actors playing similar roles in some of the same locations, the quirky preoccupation with water and alienation-may."
Y tu mamá también
Movie
"Even fans of this deceptively simple, multilayered film often reduce it down to one of its two primary genre blueprints in order to praise it: Teen coming-of-age film or raunchy road flick. On the surface, Y tu mamá también is the story of what happens when childhood friends."