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Jim Hawkins only dreamed of one thing: to go on a treasure hunt. After long listening to the accounts of an old boat captain, he decides to embark on the adventure.Read More »

The culmination of New Wave master Jacques Rivette’s legendary middle period (which ranged from L’Amour fou through Out 1, Céline and Julie Go Boating, Duelle, Noroît, and Merry-Go-Round), Le Pont du Nord envisions Paris as a sprawling game-board marked off with tucked-away conspiracies, where imagination and paranoia intermingle; where the hinted-at stakes are sanity, life, and death.Read More »

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Laura lives in Vouzela with her husband, considerably older than her. When Nuno, her brother, come to visit, he realizes that Laura does not have a happy life. In turn, Nuno initiates a friendship with a helper on the farm of his brother.Read More »

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Film adaptation of the short Büchner story of the same name, which tells of the stay of the psychotic Sturm und Drang poet Lenz in the home of the Alsatian priest and philanthropist Oberlin. The poet, whose pathological hallucinations are becoming increasingly unbearable, hopes for help from the gentle clergyman. But Oberlin, too, knows no advice; he regards his friend’s illness as God-given.Read More »

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Tourné dans un atelier de la banlieue parisienne où l’on fabrique des mannequins pour les vitrines de magasins, un film poétique et nourri de références surréalistes.

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Shot in a workshop on the outskirts of Paris where mannequins are made for shop windows, a poetic film full of surrealist references.Read More »

Béla Tarr’s hypnotic parable about the trials of human existence, filmed in thirty shots, is an apparently simple record of a week in the life of the farmer and pálinka distiller Ohlsdorfer. The minimalist drama opens with a brief text about the anecdote that Nietzsche went insane in 1889 in Turin after seeing a coachman brutally beat a horse. The introduction ends with the remark that we do not know what happened to the horse. The Turin Horse (2011) answers that question.Read More »

A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.Read More »

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The beginning of the 20th century. Led by the famous Bulgarian actor Pier Stomanyakov, the travelling theatrical troupe “Obnova” arrives at a small railway station. Before the performance of Shakespeare’s Othello, the actress playing Desdemona falls ill. The young local teacher Elisaveta Strezova, in love with theatre, offers to fill in for her role. She joins the troupe and travels with the actors along the dusty country roads. There comes a point when a chosen selection of the actors, with Stomanyakov top of the list, is offered a permanent job at the municipality theatre. Elisaveta assumes the role of leader of the rest, who bear in their hearts the memory of the “starry moments” of the “Obnova” theatrical troupe and are ready to serve art with might and main.Read More »

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Berlin, the German capital again, a few years after the fall of the Wall. The city in upheaval is also changing the lives of its inhabitants. A young photographer experiences these changes as a rupture, he looks into an unclear, unsettling future and increasingly feels like a stranger in his old city. He and his friends from the generation of the children of the Wall try to find a new identity without losing the old one. Young artists who fail the profitability test of the market economy. In his search, Robert Paris ends up far away, in India. Back in Berlin, he starts developing photos again – the first in years…Read More »