Santiago Amigorena

Santiago Amigorena

Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Director), 20 (Writer)

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    Tokyo Eyes
    Tokyo police are investigating a series of reckless and bizarre shootings by a suspect known only as "four eyes." Meanwhile, the teen-aged sister of one of the investigating officers begins her own investigation. Having spotted a strange young man named K who resembles the composite, an elaborate minuet ensues in which it is not always certain who is following and spying on whom -- surprisingly, an unexpected trust, and the beginnings of an amorous alliance, develops between the two. (Viz Films / Tidepoint Pictures)
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    Empty Days
    An executive and a dowdy working-class woman, both unemployed, married and parents meet at a supermarket. They become friends but find it hard to accept that they may be in love with each other. (IMDB)
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    Peut-être
    After having sex with his girlfriend Lucie (Pailhas) in a bathroom, Arthur (Duris) discovers that a ceiling panel is a time portal to the Paris in the future, although it appears more like a sun-baked desert city by that point. There he meets an old man named Ako (Belmondo) who turns out to be Arthur's son. Ako attempts to persuade Arthur to impregnate Lucie so that he can exist in this future. (Wikipedia)
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    A Few Days in September
    September the 1st, 2001. Elliot, an American C.I.A. agent holding top secret information on the immediate future of the world, disappears. His sole aim was to meet his daughter Orlando, whom he abandoned ten years before. Irène (Binoche), a French agent who used to work with him, and David, his adoptive son, will help him and lead the girl to her father... (imdb)
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    Le Péril jeune
    Ten years after their Upper Sixth, Bruno, Momo, Leon and Alain meet together in the waiting room of a maternity hospital. The father of the awaited baby is Tomasi, their best friend at that time, who died one month before due to an overdose. They remember their teenage, their laughs, their dreams, their stupid pranks... Through the pasts of the five main characters, a description of the French youth in the middle of the seventies. (imdb)
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    Ni pour, ni contre (bien au contraire)
    "Ni Pour, Ni Contre" tracks the fall of a young TV camerawoman, Caty (Marie Gillain), after she becomes involved with a group of petty criminals and their enigmatic leader, Jean (Vincent Elbaz). The gang lives hand-to-mouth until the day Jean plans a daring bank robbery. Although other gang members feel out of their league, Jean persuades them to take part and Caty finds herself in a hellish world of betrayal, violence and murder. (imdb)
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    Kini and Adams
    Kini and Adams are two friends leaving in a Zimbabwe village who dream of repairing an old broken car, and moving to the city and starting life over. (imdb)
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    Bon plan
    Five boys and girls, aged 20-25, take on an Interrail trip throughout Europe. After a first stop in Amsterdam, where they meet up with an old teacher of theirs who happens to be gay, they cross Germany and Italy, and eventually end up in a remote island in Greek Cyclades. There, they find a home at Knut's, a faded disco sensation who locked himself up in a beautiful mansion overlooking the sea. During their trip, everyone will discover who they really are...
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    Post Coitum
    In Paris, the successful forty and something year old book editor Diane Clovier is married with the lawyer Philippe Clovier and they have teenage son and daughter. Diane meets the young engineer Emilio that is the roommate of the writer François Narou that is working with her, and they have an intense love affair. Meanwhile, Philippe is defending their neighbor that has killed her unfaithful husband sticking a fork in his neck and one day he overhears a phone conversation of Diane and her lover.
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    Another Silence
    On a winter night, Mary, a Toronto police officer, finds her husband and son have been violently murdered at a drive by shooting. She discovers that a drug dealer she had arrested over a year ago, Pablo Molina has summoned the murder. Mary tracks the actual killer, Molina's 20-years-old nephew down to Argentina. A journey of revenge. And a journey to come to terms with her loss. (mubi.com)
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    Samba Traoré
    Samba Traore returns to his village flush with funds. Soon enough he manages to charm the beautiful Saratou into marrying him and, along with another friend, builds the first bar their village has ever seen. But his conscience keeps nagging him and the police are on the lookout for the "gas station murderer." (imdb)
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    Upside Down
    A man searches an alternate universe for a long-lost love from his youth.
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    Afrique, mon Afrique...
    Eugene, an idealistic young African farmer and musician, decides to leave his village and family momentarily to try out his luck in the city. He makes new friends there, who accompany him on his musical career. He also meets up with Kassi, a childhood friend who has become a prostitute, with whom a new, closer friendship begins.
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    Le fils du requin
    Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of Lignan, where their destructive behavior is infamous. (It may date to their mother's leaving the family.) Martin is philosophical, romantic, and poetic: he dreams of being the son of a shark; he holds tight to a book about goldfish his mother gave him. (imdb)
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    La Fleur de l\
    Gaspard, famous television presenter, is starting the decline of his career. Along with dealing with his aging, must lodge Hubert, his elderly and rebellious father. Hubert hates all attendants hired for him until Zana enters their lives (imdb)
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    Back to Burgundy
    After a 10 year absence, Jean returns to his hometown when his father falls ill. Reuniting with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie, they have to re-build their relationship and trust as a family again. (imdb)
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    Deux moi
    Rémy and Mélanie are thirty years old and live in the same district in Paris. She multiplies missed appointments on social networks while he struggles to meet. Both victims of this loneliness of the big cities, at the time hyper connected where one thinks however that to meet should be simpler … Two individuals, two courses. Without knowing it, they take two roads that will lead them in the same direction … that of a love story? (letterboxd.com)
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    Jean Galmot, aventurier
    The story of Jean Galmot, a French journalist who inherited property in French Guiana in the early 20th century, and made it prosper against all odds, becoming something of a local hero.
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    En corps
    Elise, a very promising classical dancer, is injured during a performance at 26 years old. Although she's told she will no longer be able to dance, she will try to find a new direction in contemporary dance. (imdb)
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    Last Words
    It is 2085. A young man, one of the few survivors of the human community of old, embarks on a long voyage to find others. (imdb)
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