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In a working-class neighbourhood, a group of teenagers are plotting a murder while Polo the local loan shark is preparing to celebrate his 43th birthday. L’eau chaude l’eau frette is a poetics of cruelty, a celebration of anarchy in which friend and foe, young and old, come together to party, wash their dirty linen in public, and settle accounts.Read More »
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A humble Milanese window-cleaner with dreams of magazine and TV fame accuses himself of the murder of a soprano from La Scala. “It’s a film close to my heart. It was an old project called Essere un mostro (‘Being a Monster’) and this, too, is the story of an ‘anti-hero’. Giannini was extraordinary”. (A. Lattuada)Read More »
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The two filmmakers use the style of direct cinema to film the Italian/Polish backyard wedding shower of a young couple, Ricky and Rocky. The pair show off their wedding gifts and guests and relatives express their approval of the shower to the filmmakers.Read More »
Youssef Chahine directed this drama about lovers struggling to find happiness in Egypt during the chaos of World War II. Yehia (Mohsen Mohiedine) is a teenage boy who is fascinated with the glamour of Hollywood movies, and he escapes into a rich fantasy world to free himself from the horror around him. But as he learns more about the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Europe, it becomes harder for him to ignore life’s grim realities, especially after he falls in love with a local girl. Meanwhile, a Jewish woman living nearby becomes involved with a man who is Muslim, and a gay soldier from England has an affair with a wealthy Arab. Iskanderija … Lih? was followed by two sequels, Hadota Misreya and Iskindiriah Kaman Oue Kaman.Read More »
An old cobbler in a small hamlet in the middle of nowhere decides to hang up his boots for good. As a sendoff to the awful modern world with all its fuss and fancy he puts up a sign to an – alleged – grave of the great warrior Yngve Frej. It turns out to have some unexpected consequences as his peace is disturbed by a sudden influx of Big City people with their strange ideas.
Based on a novel by Stig “Slas” Claesson.Read More »
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After committing a fraud in the company where he works, a man meets a strange character who will introduce you to a group a terrorist attack plot.Read More »
In this film, Venezuelan director Diego Risquéz has focused on the life of South America’s famed libertador, Simón Bolívar. He explores the episodes in Bolívar’s life and tragic death by using images alone (no dialogue), a technique that makes his subject matter quite abstruse. Only viewers already familiar with the legend of the man and the early history of Venezuela will recognize many of the symbols and the storyline. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, RoviRead More »
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Godard undertook a collaborative project with the U.S. filmmakers Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker in October of 1968. Provisionally entitled One A.M., or “One American Movie”, the project was to be shot in the United States, but never reached completion under Godard’s direction. Pennebaker and Leacock continued with the project under the title One P.M. or ‘One Parallel Movie,’ and did not release the film until 1972.Read More »
