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A young woman is living with her mother at the end of a dead-end street. The young woman notices that a man standing in the street stares into her room every day. After a while, she gets used to his presence and falls in love with him.Read More »
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Rebels in medieval China place secret documents in the hands of Shaolin priests. The list is entrusted by Abbot Wei Hung to a rebel who splits the list into three parts, giving two of the pieces to other rebels. But one of the three is the “Invisible Terrorist”, a spy working for the evil general.Read More »
Lebanese auteur Christian Ghazi’s Hundred Faces for a Single Day (1971) is the avant-garde masterwork that challenged the limits of political film in the revolutionary period. Rejecting propagandistic or narrative conventions, the film’s episodic structure, eerie sound design, and daring lead performance (from Madonna Ghazi) come together in a stinging critique of the revolution’s cultural and political elites.Read More »
The mayor of a small town is trying to gain glory for himself by starting a youth football team. The head of a local agricultural school challenges his self-indulgence by starting an all-girls team to compete against the boys.Read More »
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Jacques, a young man with artistic aspirations, spends four nights wandering Paris with a young woman, whom he rescued from suicide.Read More »
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Twenty-year-old Laszlo Sz., a driver’s mate steals the money he should have posted and wandering around Budapest, visiting bars, restaurants, pinball parlors and various other places trying to make the day different and meaningful.Read More »
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Arne, Calle, and Gunnar are friends, probably in their twenties. One telephones the others, and they decide to visit a nightclub. They hope to meet women and have sex. After they arrive at the club, each man meets with a certain degree of success or failure. Calle particularly is frustrated, for no woman agrees to dance with him. Meanwhile, Arne and Gunnar are busily conversing with women. Eventually the friends all leave with lady friends in tow, and spend the night in various apartments. In the morning, the couples depart differently. One couple has bonded amicably, another tenuously, and the third not at all. The next day, the men reconnect, and decide to try their luck again.Read More »
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21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver’s license and a car belonging to the junkyard. But unfortunately, things go wrong and after a collision with another car, the seriously injured Hideo is taken to the hospital. Here he meets the nurse Yuki Kobayashi. Yuki is the opposite of Hideo. During the day she works as a nurse and in the evening she studies hard. However, Hideo’s behavior leaves an unforgettable impression on Yuki and the two soon develop an intimate friendship …Read More »
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Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor Body for a feature-length, 261-minute film. Borrowing the character of Psyche from mythology and placing her in Europe in the 19th century, the authors give her a “modern” life. She is an attractive young woman – and remains so throughout the film, in spite of one hardship after another. Psyche is libidinous, and her prurient interests shock her staid contemporaries. For reasons that the viewer is left to ponder, her life is almost a living punishment for her sexual laxity. Her child is taken away and killed, and although she is in love with her tutor, who has syphilis, she marries another man. She is suffering herself from some affliction, which leads to hospital scenes that are acerbic commentaries on 19th c. Western medicine. Psyche is about to leave for America with her husband, when the story takes another abrupt turn.Read More »