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The Kingdom is the most technologically advanced hospital in Denmark, a gleaming bastion of medical science. A rash of uncanny occurrences, however, begins to weaken the staff’s faith in science–a phantom ambulance pulls in every night, but disappears; voices echo in the elevator shaft; and a pregnant doctor’s fetus seems to be developing much faster than is natural. At the goading of a spiritualist patient, some employees work to let supernatural forces rest.Read More »
Mixing narrative and documentary filming in a unique way the story is autobiographical and is about a date rape dissecting the characters and circumstances around it. By following the effects of the incident on the main character we grow to understand the tremendous impact of what many people don’t consider to be rape.Read More »
A drama set around the terrifying Brixton riots of 1981 and how the civil riots affected the lives of a group of people living there is the subject of the Play for Today episode Hard Feelings.
The action centres on a house shared by four Oxford graduates – girls Viv and Jane, and their male companions Rusty and Baz.Read More »
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Jan fights impotence (literal and symbolic) and anguished childhood memories in a decadent Swedish castle where risqué parties and daring scenes defy 1960s’ movie censorship, reaffirming the ground-breaking role of Swedish films in helping advance adult, sexually concerned themes in international cinema.Read More »
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Based on a true story. Bobbi Gilbert finds herself seduced by a married man named Tom Weston. This leads to Tom living out his dreams as a lethal ladies man, ending up in arson, bigamy, and finally, murder.Read More »
A young woman (Doherty) who grew feeling neglected by her father, has a fascination for older men. When she meets a man (Devane) that her company is doing business with, she is taken with. And before you know they are having an affair. But when he tries to break it, she doesn’t take it very well.Read More »
Written by Rose Tremain
Camilla is a mid-thirties woman whose world is collapsing around her, with an unexciting marriage, a daughter with whom she cannot communicate, and a neurotic mother facing a shoplifting charge.
Just when she feels she cannot cope any longer, a little bit of her past catches up with her again.
Liam is her former lover, and an English lecturer at college. He sends her a letter and so begins a series of events which help her to begin to rebuild her life and create some hope for her future.Read More »
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François (Guitry) is a young sculptor who falls madly in love with his model Catherine (portrayed by Guitry’s real-life wive Genevieve). When his eyesight fails him, Bressoles begins to feel unworthy of Catherine…Read More »
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For her feature film directing debut, actress Mai Zetterling turned to Agnes von Krusenstjerna’s controversial masterpiece of Swedish feminist literature, “The Misses von Pahlen,” an intense and personal seven-part novel that has been likened to the great works of D.H. Lawrence. As three pregnant women from different backgrounds wait to have their babies in a hospital in Stockholm at the outbreak of the Great War, they relive their childhood and youthful experiences via individual flashbacks. Drawing on the classic Ingmar Bergman style of Swedish filmmaking and collaborating with many of his favorite actors as well as the great cinematographer Sven Nykvist, Zetterling had produced a powerful fusion of personal emotional drama and a commentary on the role of women in a society in moral decline.Read More »