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FILM CHOICE

Antonia Quirke
Saturday 07 August 1999 23:02 BST
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MOTEL CACTUS (15)

Korean director Park Ki-Yong's film follows four intimate encounters with four couples. A quietly passionate film.

WEST BEIRUT (15)

It is 1975, the start of the civil war in Lebanon. Two Muslim boys make friends with a Christian neighbour. Director Ziad Doueiri examines the peculiar fun the kids have.

SOUTH (U)

Documentary film record of Shackleton's 1914-16 trans-Antarctic expedition, in which his ship the Endurance was crushed in polar ice.

10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (12)

Winning update of The Taming of the Shrew, set in a modern American high school.

OPENING THIS WEEK

WILD WILD WEST (12)

Will Smith, Kevin Kline and Kenneth Branagh star in a fantasy adventure set in America's post-Civil War West.

ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE (18)

James Woods and Melanie Griffiths in Larry (Kids) Clark's drama.

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (PG)

Hitchcock's 1951 masterpiece. released in a new print in celebration of his centenary.

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