Drama

Many people strive to make themselves rich and famous in Hong Kong, a small and crowded place. The drastic changes in Alan’s life and the stories happening to those ordinary people around him are all too vividly shown in this film.Read More »

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Insurance agent Peter de Wilde lives with his wife Marjan in the Dutch city of Almere. Marjan is a stewardess and is away often. Peter is desperately trying to make her pregnant, but so far he hasn’t succeeded.

When the new English speaking neighbors move in across the street, their peace and quiet seems to be over. As it turns out Marjan already has a secret relationship with the new neighbor, Ron, a photographer who travels around the world. Peter doesn’t know this yet, but when his wife and the neighbor are away, he starts (successfully) hitting it of with the wife of the neighbor, Laura.Read More »

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The world of adults seen by a high school girl in the valley between school and home after school, and the sparkling poison that only a daughter of this age has, gradually spreads ripples in the world of adults.Read More »

“Psycho Clowns in Franco Spain”: A twisted love triangle develops among a Spanish clown (Carlos Areces), his cruel rival (Antonio de la Torre) and the rival’s abused — but lustful — wife (Carolina Bang).

Jay Weissberg in Variety on the film for which Álex de la Iglesia has won the Silver Lion and an Osella for Best Screenplay in Venice, Balada triste de trompeta, known among English-speakers as either as A Sad Trumpet Ballad or The Last Circus: “Loud, tedious and unattractive in every sense, this barrage of blood set during the Franco regime combines the helmer’s customary cartoonishness with horror and ups it a thousand notches. Presumably his two vengeful clowns are meant to be an in-your-face comment on Spain’s fascist past, but the nonstop splatter has all the insight of an ultraviolent videogame.”Read More »

A black comedy about vanity and lust in contemporary America. In the middle of the sexual jungle of New York’s singles’ world…Read More »

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Adapted from James Franco’s novel of the same name – a reflection of the hometown ennui he managed to transcend, Palo Alto (2013) is another creative misfire from the talented multi-hyphenate. Franco’s novel is a series of loosely connected vignettes that focuses on a group of teenage high schoolers and their inter personal relationships. The film is directed by 25-year-old Gia Coppola and suffers from the internal problems of a wannabe creative unsure of what outlet to use. Coppola has admitted that she was drifting through life: “I wasn’t sure what my passion was. I never paid attention to movies until fairly recently.” How lucky she is to be the granddaughter of Francis Ford Coppola and niece of Sofia Coppola.Read More »

A famous actor leaves the theater without reason to live at his friend’s tugboat. The people from his surroundings find out more about his move and come to the riverbank, trying to live freely themselves. The question is who found what.Read More »

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Like a slow-building avalanche of interior conflict, Silvio Soldini’s meticulously paced Come Undone collapses the façade of emotional connection by highlighting the small erosive moments of deception rather than grandiose melodramatic tirades. A casual glance, an innocent smile, a fleeting flirtation carry all the weight of a wrecking ball, pummeling expectations of happiness until there’s nothing left but romantic uncertainty. These subtle cues of torment organically mix into daily routines and rhythms, revealing the undercurrent of doubt plaguing each couple. Even more staggering, life’s traditionally important benchmarks (the birth of a child, a retirement party, and a promotion) are minimal afterthoughts to the narrative, while the seemingly arbitrary crossroads of everyday life are given an unmatched immediacy and impact. It’s this focus on the mundane elements that makes the film’s sudden sex scenes and the continuous betrayals so striking, and the downfall of each person’s inability to trust so believable.Read More »

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On an island in French Polynesia, the Haut-Commissaire, a man with a turbulent naturalness and high diplomacy, lives between the highest echelons of politics and the lowest social stratum of his co-citizens. Conflict as a way of life will lead him to take reckless decisions against his political status.Read More »