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22,860 | [
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22,872 | [
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22,879 | [
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22,882 | [
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22,883 | [
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22,887 | [
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22,888 | [
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22,892 | [
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22,896 | [
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22,897 | [
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22,907 | [
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22,912 | [
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22,924 | [
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22,927 | [
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22,928 | [
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22,930 | [
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22,942 | [
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22,943 | [
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22,949 | [
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22,950 | [
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22,952 | [
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22,955 | [
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22,958 | [
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22,960 | [
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22,962 | [
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22,964 | [
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22,969 | [
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22,987 | [
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22,988 | [
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22,990 | [
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22,994 | [
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22,995 | [
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22,999 | [
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23,000 | [
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23,014 | [
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23,017 | [
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23,018 | [
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23,020 | [
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23,021 | [
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23,022 | [
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23,034 | [
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23,040 | [
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23,050 | [
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23,053 | [
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23,056 | [
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23,065 | [
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23,067 | [
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23,075 | [
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23,084 | [
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23,085 | [
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23,092 | [
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23,104 | [
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23,106 | [
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23,109 | [
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23,111 | [
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23,115 | [
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23,119 | [
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23,129 | [
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23,136 | [
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23,138 | [
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23,141 | [
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23,145 | [
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23,148 | [
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23,156 | [
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23,157 | [
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23,159 | [
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23,161 | [
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23,162 | [
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23,172 | [
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23,177 | [
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23,182 | [
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23,188 | [
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23,189 | [
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23,192 | [
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23,194 | [
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23,195 | [
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23,199 | [
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23,203 | [
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23,205 | [
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23,210 | [
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23,219 | [
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] | 211 | 267 | Some users are confused about the identity of the armed men walking down the steps in the "Odessa staircase" sequence. These men are not Cossacks but regular army troops.<br /><br />The Cossacks arrive at the scene a little later and they are the men on horses slashing at the crowd with their sabers.<br /><br />To expe... | 1 |
23,239 | [
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] | 169 | 217 | Isabelle Huppert must be one of the greatest actresses of her or any other generation. "La Pianiste" truly confirms it. As if that wasn't enough, Annie Girardot plays her mother and Annie Girardot is one of the greatest actresses of her or any other generation. So, as you may well imagine, those pieces of casting are w... | 1 |
23,241 | [
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] | 237 | 276 | In the first twenty minutes we are swept away by several powerfully portrayed emotions: a suffocating and overbearing mother has a violent argument with her live-in 40yr old daughter; a piano teacher (and professor of music)'s love for her pupils expressed in unswerving critical appraisal; the joy that music can inspir... | 1 |
23,244 | [
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] | 184 | 251 | As with all Haneke films, make your own decision--don't be swayed by what you read and if you are interested in someone using the medium of film for their own unique ends, see it yourself. Isabelle Huppert is stunning in this film--combined with Haneke, these two never pull their punches. Haneke reels us in with the lu... | 1 |
23,248 | [
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] | 204 | 241 | I totally disagree with the comments of one of the critics before me who bashed the film. Having read the book, being impressed by it although this is a kind of literature that you cannot really LIKE (similar to Hubert Selby's writing) I expected being shocked but the effect was more subtle than this. Isabelle Hubert i... | 1 |
23,256 | [
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23,258 | [
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] | 205 | 263 | Debbie Vickers (Nell Schofield) and Sue Knight (Jad Capelja) want to become one of the cool girls in their high school. Uncool and ugly girls had two options, be a mole or a prude! Debbie and Sue imitate them by using their cheating practices in an exam. Two of the cool boys, Garry (Goeff Rhoe) and Danny (Tony Hughes) ... | 1 |
23,262 | [
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23,266 | [
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23,267 | [
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] | 184 | 233 | Labeling this film a "lesbian love story" is about as accurate as calling Pride & Prejudice a "straight love story." There's just so much more to it than that.<br /><br />Yes, the main character is a lesbian, but her story is classic bildungsroman, a journey from childhood to adulthood, from sexual innocence into matur... | 1 |
23,272 | [
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23,274 | [
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23,275 | [
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23,277 | [
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] | 218 | 268 | As a lesbian, I am sick and tired of being portrayed in movies and on TV as a sad person, forever vacillating between suicide and homicide, but never destined to find happiness? <br /><br />If, like me, you are fed up with Hollywood's anti-lesbian propaganda, you'll breathe a sigh of relief at this delightful offering ... | 1 |
23,282 | [
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] | 191 | 232 | When I rented this movie, I half expected it to be a low budget, plot less Indy film, but thought I'd give it a try. I started watching Part 1 and couldn't pull myself away till it ended 3 hours later. It was by far one of my absolute favorite films of all time. From the writing to the directing to the performances, I ... | 1 |
23,283 | [
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23,288 | [
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23,295 | [
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23,305 | [
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