A buddy comedy centered on a couple of ‘salarymen’ working for an Advertising Agency, who battle the unscrupulous practices of a rival agency. In classic Yoshimitsu Morita style, it’s done with heightened slapstick that defies standard logic.Read More »
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child’s mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.Read More »
The return of the son of the film, a thirtysomething Selja (Ylipää) as a young childless mixed with the adopting of everyday life, which is built on work, friends, and relationships around it.Read More »
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In “Anger,” a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In “Sloth,” a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can’t be bothered to accept a starlet’s sexual favors. In “Gluttony,” a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In “Greed,” a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet’s lottery ticket. In “Pride,” an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.Read More »
Paris, 1959. A young Jean-Luc Godard is determined to make his debut film. Battling conventions, budgetary chaos and sceptical producers, he and his collaborators launch a quiet revolution in cinema, capturing the raw energy of the era.Read More »
A reporter gets a scoop on the shadowy, secretive “Strange and Unbelievable Experience Society”, which meets only once a year. The requirement for membership: to relate a “strange and unbelievable” experience to other members.Read More »
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Spanish actor Gustavo Salmerón steps behind the camera to capture the winsome eccentricities of his extraordinary mother Julita, who had three dreams: having lots of kids, owning a monkey, and living in a castle.
“There’s something a little bit magic about Julita, something of the fairytale” (Variety). Matriarch Julita’s three childhood wishes have been granted: lots of kids, a monkey, and a castle. But after the financial crisis hits Spain the family loses their castle but not their sense of humour and family unity; and through the wealth of hoarded objects she has accumulated over 81 years, a rich family portrait is revealed.Read More »
Adachi harbored lofty ambitions and moved to Tokyo, lodging at a third-rate boarding house. Managed by a gruff old woman and a taciturn old man, the boarding house shocked Adachi with its musty, dimly lit four-and-a-half tatami room. Already strapped for cash due to paying rent upfront, Adachi was further dismayed when the company he planned to work for went bankrupt. In his despair, Adachi met Jun, an intelligent and beautiful woman, at the boarding house, and his spirits were lifted. However, he soon learned that she was cohabiting with a useless yakuza named Julie…Read More »
