Pernat finds himself in a police interrogation, accused of a murder, and unable to recall any details of the crime, or even his own life. He’s released back into a world of raving lunatics and deranged dentists, murderous doctors and scientists who believe the secret of human creation is inside the walls of a cast-iron oven. Pernat’s odyssey to find out who he is, and what it is to be human, will force his path to cross with all of them.Read More »
Created under the strictures of confinement in a stressed-out Paris, Roy Stuart presents the 23rd installment of his iconic Glimpse series. Undeterred by the lockdown blues, he creatively channels the current zeitgeist to address contemporary issues of sexuality and solve problems.
In the film’s first sequence, the veil is lifted to reveal the challenging sexual dynamics in the era of social distancing. Two young girls reutrning home meet a stranger who is lost and whose phone is dead. They invite him up to charge his phone and a definite attraction develops between him and one of the girls. But how to materialize this desire into an organic situation, solving the sexual frustrations of the masked couple sitting alone on the girl’s bed and staring at into each other’s expectant eyes…Read More »
Paris, in the early 21st century. Edouard is a painter, Charles is a poet. The two artists are friends but their adverse circumstances are beginning to weigh on them. Gulcan, a foreigner, suddenly appears. An idea dawns on him.Read More »
She managed to save from the fire a stack of photographs and a diary with handwritten phrases. These words and faces are the only traces left by the man she once knew and loved. Crossing mountains and roads, she tries to retrace his steps.Read More »
Roy Stuart continues his masterpiece series of ‘erotic refinement pushed to the ultimate aesthetic’ with this follow-up to Glimpse 21. American actress and model, Caprice Elise (Ridley Scott’s ‘The Last Duel’) returns in Glimpse 22, and for the first time, illuminates the screen with absolute abandonment! This might be the most explicit in the Glimpse series. Roy Stuart is at the top of his art as he ushers in a new decade with this blazing two hour feature, ever-avoiding the pitfalls and frustrations of predictable mainstream cinema and sad industrial porn. Highly addictive to the mind and then suddenly to the sex, Glimpse 22 is guaranteed to overtake you over and over again. Be warned… Desire is burning in Glimpse 22!Read More »
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« For the fun? For the money? Nah, for the pleasure pleasure honey! »
No more industrial porn! No more supermarket of sex!—This new Glimpse does however contain strong explicit scenes even though they have nothing to do with the sad industrial internet porn that relegates the mechanics of sex to crude functionalism.
In 2019 cinema has evolved to the stage where so called “normal” feature films are breaking new ground, enriching the narrative by including explicit scenes, directors such as Gaspar Noé, Lars von Trier, and John Cameron Mitchell, come to mind.
Glimpse is the alternative, The Third Way, here we are in the realm of contemporary art.Read More »
“Seuls is a film about the symbolic order of love, a sort of fantastic thriller on Oedipus…” ~Francis Reusser
Synopsis:
Jean (Niels Arestrup), the lead character in this psychological journey is torn by a search for his lost childhood, the overwhelming need to love a woman of his dreams (someone he has invented), and a struggle with his latent bisexuality. Jean finds some photos inside an automatic photo station that look like his mother who died soon after he was born. He starts to fantasize about the woman, giving her a name and identity and waiting for her to appear. During this time, he meets Carole (Christine Boisson) and has an affair with her, all the while pretending he has this other relationship with the woman in the photo. Significantly, the couple who introduce him to Carole is childless, and they eventually split up – perhaps a comment on the importance of childhood to the adult world. In the end, Carole discovers that Jean’s “other woman” has no real existence, causing a crisis that finds a symbolic expression as the last scenes close on the story.Read More »
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Returning to Thailand after studying in the US, Ananda lands a part in a new film and finds himself swept up in a whirlwind of success. When American girlfriend Zoe turns up to visit, she soon begins to feel shut out and the distance between them grows as Ananda becomes increasingly absorbed with his role in the film. His attention soon turns to May from the film’s production crew, and so as one relationship fades, another ignites. All the while, Ananda finds himself revisiting his past and reflecting on his present – from the building he grew up in and a Bangkok he once knew, to two cultures that he is now caught between.Read More »
Review of Glimpse 4 by Victor Westman
Another generously-crammed club-sandwich of a Roy Stuart video, with mostly tasty ingredients spilling out in all directions and in totally variable proportions. You never know whether a leisurely scene-opening is going to lead in to a brief short or to an extended twelve minutes or more. Two-minute prototypes here include a high-heel-teetering bookshop seductress, walking in to administer mouth relief to bemused Taschen browsers (may we have a second edition, please!), and a café-scene involving Cyril, a woman friend, a waitress, peeks up skirts on a spiral staircase, and a loo engaged when most needed.Read More »