KAMA SUTRA: A TALE OF LOVE

Anyone expecting an East Indian 9 1/2 Weeks can stay at home. Director Mira Nair's (Mississippi Masala) drama is less about the Hindu love guide than erotic rivalry between a princess (Masala's Sarita Choudhury) and her onetime friend and servant (newcomer Indira Varma). (Feb. 28)

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Gwyneth Paltrow and Samuel L. Jackson appear in HARD EIGHT, a tale of a seasoned gambler (Philip Baker Hall) with a dark secret. A naive Algerian boy visits Paris and gets taken in by his pathologically lying cousin who has his own way of saying SALUT COUSIN! Twin brothers compete for the same girl in the oddball Aussie comedy HOTEL DE LOVE. Also from Australia: COSI, in which mental-hospital patients rehearse and perform a Mozart opera.