After crossing the desert in his career as an actor, Yazid finally sees the end of the tunnel emerging. Sober for six months, he wants to show his new fiancée and his 16-year-old son, Hassan, that he is now another man who has regained a taste for life. However, in a few days, the old demons resurface and with them the memories of his childhood in Algeria.Read More »
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A simple but effective tale, Bar salon tells the story of Charles, a man in his fifties whose saloon business is losing money and about to go under. Since he cannot pay his employees, his daughter Michèle begins working at a bar in addition to her job as cashier in a fish market. Every evening she serves the few remaining clients: the refined but aging Major Cotnoir, the vulgar drunk Leslie, Michèle’s unambitious, taxing-driving fiancé Robert and Julien, whose wife flaunts her affair with a lodger.Read More »
Three police patrol-vehicles, six policemen, city of Sofia in the night, between 9th and 10th of November 2019.Read More »
Primo Levi’s modern day odyssey from the concentration camp to his home in Italy. The Truce is a film about homecoming.
The horror and the suffering of the concentration camps has been well documented. What interested the director, Francesco Rosi, was to bring to the screen what Levi succeeded in doing so extraordinarily well in his book: recounting, through the tales of his remarkable adventures, the process of reawakening, of coming back to life, and of the re-acquisition of hope, through the experience of daily events, small and large, natural and joyous, the cumulative effect of which is to constantly affirm the superiority of love over death.Read More »
A trucker, leading a life free of depth and on the way to nowhere, is forced to make a decision about her aggressive loner 11-year-old son whom she openly deserted ten years previously.Read More »
Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking, in this seminal Sun Tribe (taiyozoku) film from director Ko Nakahira. Adapted from the controversial novel by Shintaro Ishihara, and critically savaged for its lurid portrayal of the postwar sexual revolution among Japan’s young and privileged, Crazed Fruit is an anarchic outcry against tradition and the older generation.Read More »
An impossible tale. Taro, an old man who dies homeless in Tokyo has told Yosuke, a weak-willed out-of-work salaryman about a golden statue that he left years ago in a house by the sea in Noto. Yosuke goes and he’s captivated by Saeko, a young women who lives in the house where Taro left the statue. She has a strange affliction: water builds up in her and she can only vent it by wicked acts, such as shoplifting, or, more powerfully, through orgasm. Yosuke obliges, the water gives him life, as well as the plants and fish it reaches. Saeko feels shame, and she has a past. Taro’s ghost urges Yosuke to fulfill his desires, but can the relationship survive? Written by
the AMG clerk wrote :
“This disturbing French drama comments upon the effects of excessive television violence on children. It’s set within a seaside villa, where under the care of a nanny, a group of children spend most of their days watching violent television shows. One day they all go to the beach. The nanny dozes while they frolic. For a joke, they load the snoozing servant into a rubber raft and set her out to sea. She panics when she wakes up and ends up drowning. The kids do try to save her, but when they fail they decide to run wild instead of reporting the incident. The death means nothing to them until a threatening stranger appears and tells them he witnessed it all…”
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This is one of the earliest Jakubiskos work, student short movie.
Catechist forces his student Ratkin to confess.Read More »