New Films from Australia, Asia, France and the US: A Round-up of the 2001 Melbourne International Film Festival

This article is a review of selected films from the 2001 Melbourne International Film Festival. The films reviewed are The Foul King (Jee-woon Kim, 2000), Brother (Takeshi Kitano, 2000), I Love Beijing (Ying Ning, 2001), Barking Dogs Never Bite (Joon-ho Bong, 2000), Silent Partner (Alkinos Tsilimidos, 2001), The Bank (Robert Connolly, 2001), The Pledge (Sean Penn, 2001), Miotte by Ruiz (Raoul Ruiz, 2002) and He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (Richard Lowenstein, 2001).