Emma and Antonio, married with two children, have been separated for nearly a year. Antonio is living alone in the house where he used to live with his wife, while Emma has gone back to her mother, taking the children with her. Then, one night, a flying squad is called to the palazzo and the police burst into the apartment where gunshots have been heard. In a rapid succession of events, Un giorno perfetto describes the twenty-four hours before this moment, the simple but “unique” life of a group of people who are shadowed every step they take.Read More »
Drama
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Ferzan Ozpetek – Un giorno perfetto AKA A Perfect Day (2008)
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Ferzan Ozpetek – Hamam AKA Steam: The Turkish Bath (1997)
Drama1991-2000Ferzan ÖzpetekItalyQueer Cinema(s)RomanceTurkeyIf postmodern marriage is between equals, Francesco (Alessandro Gassman) and Marta (Francesca d’Aloja) have been computer selected. He is slim, tall, charmless, cold. She is slim, tall, charmless, cold. He is irritable and insensitive to other people’s feelings. She is angry and sensitive to her own feelings. They bicker and fight and work for a design company (their own) in Rome. They fit neatly into the high-stress, workaholic, image-conscious lifestyle, in which eating and talking and loving is snatched between phone calls and client consultations.Read More »
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Karel Kachyna – Blazni a devcatka (1988)
1981-1990ArthouseCzech RepublicDramaKarel Kachyna -
Çagan Irmak- Prensesin uykusu AKA The Sleep of the Princess (2010)
2001-2010Çagan IrmakComedyDramaTurkeyAziz works as an assistant in a public library. He is alone, he does not have many friends but he is not really embittered against life. He just seeks an emotional refuge in someone who will care about him. Once he has new neighbors: Secil and her daughter, they put some color in his monotone life. The little girls dreams trigger some real life events. The trio will try to change the fate.
Prensesin Uykusu is a smiling and optimistic drama.Read More »
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Michael Tully – Septien (2011)
Drama2011-2020ComedyMichael TullyUSA
Sydney Film Festival wrote:
If Ingmar Bergman had wandered into rural Tennessee and downed a few too many shots of moonshine he might have made something like this bizarre and compelling family drama. Mixing elements of Southern Gothic, sports drama, situation comedy and backwoods horror with biblical overtones, Septien takes us to the very strange farmhouse of the Rawlings brothers. Cornelius (played by writer-director Michael Tully), a Christlike figure and brilliant sportsman, has returned after an 18-year absence. Amos creates grotesque art in the barn, while Ezra dons a frock and does the housework. Then there’s Wilbur Cunningham, who lives in a tyre in the backyard. When a plumbing problem needs fixing the you-know-what really hits the fan. A disturbing, fascinating and darkly comic portrait of family ties, obsession and redemption, Tully’s movie is an American original that’s not to be missed.Read More » -
Ferzan Ozpetek – Le Fate ignoranti AKA His secret life (2001)
Drama2001-2010Ferzan ÖzpetekItalyQueer Cinema(s)TurkeyAIDS doctor Antonia’s husband is killed by a car. She gets depressed until she learns he had been cheating on her with a man. Following her newly born curiosity for life, she goes to see her husband’s lover, Michele, and finds a huge apartment that he shares with gay and transgendered friends, including a Turkish immigrant and a prostitute. Antonia is reluctant to tell these people of her relationship to the dead man, but needs prompting to move on to a new phase of her life. Written by Sujit R. Varma Read More »
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Robert Wise – Until They Sail (1957)
1951-1960DramaRobert WiseRomanceUSA
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Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII Written by johnno.Read More » -
Lech Majewski – Prisoner of Rio (1988)
1981-1990DramaLech MajewskiThrillerUnited Kingdom
“Prisoner of Rio is a 1988 drama film directed by Lech Majewski and starring Steven Berkoff, Paul Freeman and Peter Firth. It shows the flight of the Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs to Brazil and the attempts of Scotland Yard detectives to re-capture him.Read More »
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Sang-soo Im – Baramnan Gajok AKA A Good Lawyer’s Wife (2003)
2001-2010DramaSang-soo ImSouth Korea






