Drama

  • Ray Yeung – Suk Suk AKA Twilight’s Kiss (2019)

    2011-2020DramaHong KongQueer Cinema(s)Ray Yeung

    Quote:
    Twilight’s Kiss presents the story of two closeted married men in their twilight years. One day Pak, 70, a taxi driver who refuses to retire, meets Hoi, 65, a retired single father, in a park. Despite years of societal and personal pressure, they are proud of the families they have created through hard work and determination. Yet in that brief initial encounter, something is unleashed in them which had been suppressed for so many years. As both men recall their personal histories, they also contemplate a possible future together. Inspired by an oral history of older gay men in Hong Kong, Ray Yeung’s film looks inside a closeted world rarely seen on film. Wendy Ide of Screen International praised it as “a delicate little wisp of a romance which plays out in fragile moments and shared glances.”Read More »

  • Raymond Depardon – Un homme sans l’Occident AKA Untouched by the West (2002)

    2001-2010ArthouseDramaFranceRaymond Depardon

    This is the story, adapted from the novel by Diego Brosset, and told in voice-over by an unseen, French-speaking narrator, of a fearless North African tribesman, Alifa, around the early part of the last century, and how he avoided contact with the white man. Rescued from death as a boy, he moves between different tribes before becoming a desert guide for a group of rebels.Read More »

  • Franklin Gollings – Connecting Rooms (1970)

    Drama1961-1970Franklin GollingsUnited Kingdom

    Quote:
    Connecting Rooms is a 1970 British drama film written and directed by Franklin Gollings. The screenplay is based on the play The Cellist by Marion Hart. The plot explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house owned by dour Mrs. Brent. Among them are busker Wanda Fleming, who is flattered by the attention paid her by rebellious pop songwriter wannabe Mickey Hollister, and former schoolmaster James Wallraven, who has been accused of pedophilia and reduced to working as a janitor in an art gallery.Read More »

  • Georges Lautner – Le Pacha AKA Pasha [+commentary] (1968)

    1961-1970CrimeDramaFranceGeorges Lautner

    Synopsis:
    Early one morning, an armoured van loaded with diamonds sets out from the Place Vendôme in the heart of Paris to Bourget airport, accompanied by a police escort. Before it can reach its destination, the convoy is suddenly attacked by a gang of armed crooks, who show no mercy as they set about stealing the valuable cargo. The gang’s leader, Quinquin, has no intention of sharing his ill-gotten gains with his accomplices. As soon as he has taken receipt of the diamonds he begins eliminating all of his criminal associates, beginning with Gouvion, the police inspector who was charged with
    delivering the jewels.Read More »

  • Camille de Chenay – Un Musée Dort AKA A Museum Sleeps (2020)

    2011-2020Camille de ChenayDramaFrance

    A work that is both narrative (a man in his sleepwalking quest for Chloé) and experimental (a free form, bumpy, poetic), with the omnipresence of a strange, disturbing and playful piano for the chaotic journey of its central character which does not fail to intrigue.Read More »

  • Visakesa Chandrasekaram – Paangshu AKA Earth (2020)

    2011-2020DramaSri LankaVisakesa Chandrasekaram

    Paangshu revolves around Babanorna (Nita Fernando), a launderer belonging to one of the lowest castes in Sri Lanka. Babanorna is summoned to an identification parade where she identifies Lionel as one of the paramilitary men who abducted her son during the 1988/89 insurgency. While Indika (Jagath Manuwarna), the young public prosecutor, shows little or no interest in helping Babanorna find her missing son, Namalee (Nadie Kammallaweera), the pregnant wife of the paramilitary man, seeks forgiveness from the launderer. As the long hearings in the dilapidated courthouse continue for months, shameful secrets are gradually unearthed by the defeated rebels, victorious soldiers and those who were crushed in between.Read More »

  • Elsa Rosengren – I Want to Return Return Return (2020)

    2011-2020DramaElsa RosengrenGermanyShort Film

    Whilst awaiting a long-distance friend, a lonely young woman navigates a Berlin neighborhood populated by talkative souls whose existences are often dominated by memories of their past lives.Read More »

  • Sergii Storozhev – My Sweet Home (2020)

    2011-2020DramaSergii StorozhevUkraine

    After the woman’s death, a quarrel breaks out between her three children over their shared apartment where they spent childhood. In the province, even a small amount of money is life-saving for people. The youngest son Pasha is against selling. He still lives here and in addition, he took care of his old mother. But both his brother and sister are convinced of the need to sell it. When relatives run out of arguments, they start doing horrible, and above all, irreversible things. After all, when there is money, even between relatives, people change.Read More »

  • Mira Nair – Mississippi Masala (1991)

    1991-2000DramaMira NairRomanceUSA

    An Indian family is expelled from Uganda when Idi Amin takes power. They move to Mississippi and time passes. The Indian daughter falls in love with a black man, and the respective families have to come to terms with it.Read More »

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