Romance

This is an unusual film by Helvio Soto who is best known for the remarkable political and historical dramas he made before and after going into exile following the 1973 coup in Chile. Made just before Raúl Ruiz’s Tres tristes tigres with some of the same crew, the film shares some elements of style but couldn’t be more different in terms of tone. It is a romantic comedy about two university students (pre-med boy and art girl) from the countryside falling in love in Valparaiso. The film displays a lot of the brilliance of subsequent films by Soto (as well as those by the film’s editor, Carlos Piaggio and its assistant director, Silvio Caiozzi) and represents a very rare attempt in Chile at the free and hip kind of romantic comedy of the late 1960s.Read More »

Laurent is seeking a path in life after living his childhood and teenage years in laziness. He has a conflictual relationship with Rodolphe, his father, and both are too emotional to express their mutual affection. Despite the women of his life hanging around him , Rodolphe has but one obsession: meeting Marguerite again, the first love of his life.Read More »

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A young, gay student has a relationship with an older, successful businessman. The handsome playboy-businessman must choose between his comfortable, yet closeted straight life, or an honest, yet subversive life with the student.Read More »

Aya successfully stages a fashion show in Osaka and in the train on her way home to Tokyo accidentally treads on a man’s foot. The man whose name is Rentaro is not amused. Just afterwards she notices that he is reading a magazine which carries her picture which he crushes and throws under his seat. One of her customers in Tokyo is a pretty girl named Kana for whom she had designed a dress which at first seems quite satisfactory. But a few days later Kana brings it back. It seems her brother thinks it terrible. But when Kana brings the dress back she meets Aya’s brother, Takeshi, with whom she becomes friendly and Takeshi gives her a new dress which he smuggles out of his sister’s office. When Aya finds Kana’s discarded dress and misses one belonging to another customer she goes to see Kana’s brother, and to her surprise finds him to be the fellow whose foot she’d stepped upon in the train…Read More »

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Three friends begin a contest to find Karen, a particular girl they all like. The limits: one month, and no advertising or radio. The prize: the losers withdraw and the winner gets free reign to woo her.Read More »

A recently-singled New York writer finds herself in two surprising and complicated relationships.Read More »

Wealthy industrialist Robert Talbot arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa to find three problems lying in wait for him. Firstly, his long-time girlfriend Lisa Fellini has given up waiting for him to pop the question and has decided to marry another man. Secondly, the major domo of his villa, Maurice Clavell, has turned the estate into a posh hotel to make some easy money while the boss isn’t around. And, finally, the current guests of the “hotel” are a group of young American girls trying to fend off a gang of oversexed boys, led by Tony, who are ‘laying siege’ at the outer walls of the villa. Talbot, to his own surprise, finds himself becoming an overprotective chaperone. —Alfred Jingle, imdbRead More »

A love story between two emotionally damaged outsiders, played by Alexis Loret and Juliette Binoche, which marked Techine’s return to the haunting and intense territory of Les Roseaux Savages. Highly praised for its effective use of an unorthodox narrative structure, it tells the story of Martin, who runs away from his rural French home under mysterious circumstances and ends up at his half-brother’s flat in Paris, where he meets and falls in love with the his roommate Alice. When Alice informs him that she is pregnant, he has a sudden flashback of what happened to make him flee his father’s house…Read More »

A successful fashion editor realizes she has romantic feelings for her childhood best friend when he invites her to his lavish London wedding.Read More »