Rome, Esquilino, summer. Rossella returns to Rome after years of absence and returns to her home, rented to her friend Salvatore, the set designer. The woman is gripped by an evident depression and wanders around the city that she does not recognize and that no longer recognizes her. People have changed and Rossella finds no one capable of answering the obsessive question that has plagued her for some time: “How can I disappear?”Read More »
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In a racially mixed American town, a 5-year-old black girl falls unnoticed into a hidden, forgotten well on her way to school. Having nothing better to go on, the police follow up a report that the child was seen with a white stranger, and rumors run wild. Before hapless, innocent Claude Packard is even found, popular hysteria has him tried and convicted. But Packard’s troubles pale by comparison as ever more inflated rumors uncap the well of racial tensions and mob violence. And young Carolyn Crawford, forgotten by most, is still missing…
— Rod CrawfordRead More »
“Then I won’t be a girl. And I won’t be weak and I won’t be silly. I’ll be a boy and rough and hard. I won’t care what I do. Don’t worry! I’m ready for anything.”
– Sylvia (Katharine Hepburn)
Sylvia Scarlett is a 1935 romantic comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant, based on The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett, a novel by Compton MacKenzie. Directed by George Cukor, it was notorious as one of the most famous unsuccessful movies of the 1930s. Hepburn plays the title role of Sylvia Scarlett, a female con artist masquerading as a boy to escape the police. The success of the subterfuge is in large part due to the transformation of Hepburn by RKO make-up artist Mel Berns.Read More »
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“God, why hast thou forsaken me?” With Winter Light, Ingmar Bergman explores the search for redemption in a meaningless existence. Small-town pastor Tomas Ericsson (Gunnar Björnstrand) performs his duties mechanically before a dwindling congregation, including his stubbornly devoted lover, Märta (Ingrid Thulin). When he is asked to assuage a troubled parishioner’s (Max von Sydow) debilitating fear of nuclear annihilation, Tomas is terrified to find that he can provide nothing but his own doubt. The beautifully photographed Winter Light is an unsettling look at the human craving for personal validation in a world seemingly abandoned by God.Read More »
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Alex, in his mid-thirties, is a quite neurotic character. When his mother is hospitalized with a stroke, the caring son’s life gets out of track. At the hospital he finds himself in a burlesque kind of human zoo full of unexpected characters and surprising events. Trying to manage the situation in between everybody’s advice, he’s coming hypochondriac. While his mother seems to feel perfectly fine Alex is making his own set of mistakes – throughout with best intentionsRead More »
Lyle Jensen is subject to sudden and violent outbursts, and he is committed to the juvenile wing of the Northwood Mental Institution. Several other youths are there with a variety of serious problems. Lyle interacts with other patients and staff on a human, and sometimes not so human level. The psychological problems of the patients also forms the fabric by which we see what’s right with them, and what’s wrong with the society that affects them.Read More »
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Set in the late 1980’s at the height of Japan’s bubble economy. Midori, a struggling art student, decides to apply for a job as a hostess at one of the upscale nightclubs in Tokyo’s Ginza district. She quickly earns the attention of several wealthy executives, and soon finds herself involved with a resort hotel owner as his business partner and mistress. The bubble soon bursts, however, and Midori’s future is fading just as suddenly as it shone.Read More »
A few months after May 68, Robert, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and far-left activist, decides to get a job at Citroën as a production line worker. Like other of his comrades, he wanted to infiltrate the factory to rekindle the revolutionary fire, but the majority of workers didn’t want to hear any more about politics. When Citroën decided to pay back the Grenelle agreements by requiring workers to work 3 hours overtime a week for free, Robert and a few others saw the possibility of a social movement.
L’ETABLI is adapted from the famous novel of the same name by Robert Linhart.Read More »
