2002 Cannes Film Festival – Best Director Winner
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Painted Fire
Kwon-taek Im
In a time of political and social unrest in nineteenth-century Korea, an uncouth, self-taught painter explores his natural talent amidst the repressive world around him.
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Punch-Drunk Love
Paul Thomas Anderson
A psychologically troubled novelty supplier is nudged towards a romance with an English woman, all the while being extorted by a phone-sex line run by a crooked mattress salesman, and purchasing stunning amounts of pudding.