Definition of "art-house" []

• Of or pertaining to an art house or art houses. (adjective)

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• "It accounts for its painful repression, detached tone and slow-brewing momentum more common in Japanese art-house cinema, a close counterpart being Nobuhiro Suwa's "A Perfect Couple.""
• "I'm asking, because I've been meaning to watch a decent Russian movie for a while now, and I just don't know how to make a selection - I fear that those nominated for best foreign feature Oscar will disappoint me, I want a normal and entertaining Russian flick, not another European art-house creation: P Any pieces of advice?"
• "Clearly very much in the elliptical/modernist traditional of European art-house."