Nederlands Film Festival wrote:
Four difficult teenagers come into conflict with their bungling parents. The battle escalates when the mother tries to seduce her daughter’s tennis teacher and the children turn the villa into a heavily armed fortress. A classic theme, the struggle between parents and children, but in this black comedy it gets completely out of hand, in an unusual and bold way, while the parents’ authority is completely undermined and they eventually come off worst.Read More »
Towards the end of the Shahanshah’s reign, Sergeant Makvandi is assigned the commander of the gendarmerie station in a small town. A stern disciplinarian, Sergeant Makvandi tries to impose order at the station but, being as degenerate as his subordinates, he fails to re-store discipline. faced by rebellious crowds, he imposes martial law, but people outwit him by mailing to his address a forged letter which “promotes the sergeant and ends the curfew”. Makvandi tries to intimidate a school teacher into writing a song which he wants the students to sing on the day his “promotion” comes into effect. But the teacher refuses to give in, for he and his students are preparing to sing a new song, the song of revolution.Read More »
Set in chaotic 1920s China, when warlords fought each other for power while Sun Yat-Sen’s underground movement tried to establish a democratic republic, the movie tells the story of three young women and two young men who are thrown together. One young woman grabs a box of jewels during the looting when one warlord takes Peking. A deserting soldier joins her, but the jewels end up at the Peking Opera. Here we meet the daughter of the head of the troupe, who dreams of being an actress. But even female roles are played by men in the opera. Soon, the daughter of the currently ruling warlord and a male agent of the democratic underground are involved.Read More »
Adaptation of Molière’s comedy “The Imaginary Invalid”, about a hypochondriac, his doctor, his daughter and her lover.Read More »
Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks and while he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp, the door bell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him…Read More »
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After running out of funds, Henry Graham, a carefree playboy, plots to marry and murder wealthy botanist Henrietta Lowell.Read More »
A loose Biblical allegory starring the legendary model-artist-musician Zouzou as Mary Magdalene, French actor Pierre Clémenti as Jesus and the director himself as a misguided apostle.Read More »
Frustrated by life unemployed in a small Irish border town Vinnie (Stephen Brennan) and Arthur (Eamon Morrisey) see “Roustabout”, a movie where Elvis Presley rides a fairground Wall of Death – to the amazement of the local community, they proceed to build their very own Wall of Death on the outskirts of town.
As their enthusiasm increases, their cash decreases, and it becomes necessary for the pair to finance the project by hiring themselves out to run pigs, videos and booze across the border for the local smuggling baron. There are consequences and repercussions for all concerned.Read More »
Pilot Mimino works at small local airlines in Telavi, Georgia, flying helicopters between small villages. He dreams of piloting large planes for major international airlines, so he goes to Moscow for refresher courses. There in a hotel he meets truck driver Rubik from Dilijan, Armenia who is given a place in that hotel by mistake. Together they have many adventures in Moscow. However, both are homesick and long for their family, friends, and hometowns in the Caucasus.Read More »