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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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Paris, mid-90s, summer. Louise has just left the clinic having woken up from a five-year-long coma, and finds she inherits a house from her aunt as well a family plot involving her father. Ninon is a petty thief who begins a job as a courier, but fears she has been caught stealing by Roland, a set decorator who works across the street. A friendship between Ninon and Louise forms through Roland. Meanwhile, Ida, a librarian, searches for her birth mother. Paris transforms such that life becomes a musical.Read More »
Young entrepreneurial couple André and Vera get the chance to pitch their female health app at a prestigious competition. Before going there, Vera tries hypnotherapy to quit smoking and her attitude changes. André starts to behave unexpectedly.
9 wins, 12 nominations.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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Nandini has to choose between Sameer, the man who taught her to fall in love; and Vanraj, the man from whom she learnt how to abide and fulfill promises of love.Read More »
Winner of the Prix Afrique en Creation at Cannes in 1992, this humorous and magical tale is filled with the sexual antics that enliven a working class neighborhood in Yaounde. A girl takes on the body of a man and learns the true sexual politics of the men around her. In addition, the woman who helps her achieve this transformation metamorphoses herself into Panka, a comic figure who can make a man’s penis disappear with a handshake.Read More »
Set in Viareggio an Italian famous tourist place, this movie is a gentle comedy where we admire a beautiful and remarkable debutant, Jacqueline Sassard supported by a good group of actors – Raf Vallone, Sylva Koscina and the young Raf Mattioli – directed with steady hand by Alberto Lattuada. Based on a subject by Valerio Zurlini, this well scripted movie tells the transformation of a young and spoilt rich girl who discovers the substance of sentiments while living the drama of her parents divorce and the delights of love. The love story is showed in a very delicate way and it is carried out with crescendo untill the nostalgic finale.Read More »
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A multi-faceted film based on Raymond Jean’s novel “La Lectrice”. Constance (Miou-Miou) reads the novel aloud in bed to her lover. Inspired by the story of Marie, a woman who advertises her services as a reader of literature, Constance decides to do the same. Here the film takes on a kaleidoscopic effect as the lives of Constance and Marie become merged, making it hard to distinguish what is real and what is fantasy. This structure is further complicated when the lives of Constance’s clients become tangled with the stories she reads. The film is interspersed with readings from well known literary sources as diverse as, amongst others, Baudelaire, Duras, Tolstoy, Lewis Carroll and de Sade’s “120 days…”Read More »
