This early Radley Metzger film follows a day in the lives of two “working girls”, one in Paris and one in Germany, and their odd assortment of clients and adventures. Directed with panache and taste, it shows Metzger’s emerging talent well before he hit his stride and developed a remarkable personal style with “Carmen, Baby” and “Camille 2000”. The episodic structure and omniscient narrator betray the film’s “Nudie Cutie” influences, while the visual flair, high-class settings, jazz score and eliptic dialogue reveal an affinity with the erotic Euro-stylings of Pecas et al.Read More »

A blind man’s sight is restored in time to solve the mystery of his girlfriend’s dead (or is he) brother and a gang of currency smugglers.Read More »

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The first film in Rudolf Thome’s “Forms of Love” trilogy is the most incisive. It’s a comedy-drame chronicling the ups and downs in the relationship of an unmarried couple (Adriana Altaras, Vladimir Weigl). When she tries to persuade him that they should have a child, he escapes the controversy by becoming preoccupied with his new aquarium and microscope. Their struggles to settle their differences and accept new responsibilities are presented intelligently, realistically and with low-key wit and irony.Read More »

A sculptor preparing to open a new show tries to work amidst the daily dramas of family and friends.Read More »

Laarmans (Romain De Coninck) is an old man, and finds his family life claustrophobic. Most evenings, he escapes the confines of the house and wanders around Antwerp’s red-light district. Three Afghani men who have become sailors approach him one evening, asking him to help them find a certain girl. But it seems they were given a false address. In the middle of the night all of them are searching and hoping. As he wanders around the city with the three sailors, he fantasizes about what this girl must be like…Read More »

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In 1932, Sam Doyle, a decorated World War I pilot, is a successful commercial pilot and a single parent to his ten-year-old son Danny. One night, after drinking too much, Doyle crashes his plane, killing his co-pilot, William Thompson. Remorseful, Doyle tries to make amends by giving all his money to the dead pilot’s wife and young daughter Susie. To conceal his charity, Doyle arranges for Joe Sanford, a legal guardian, to administer the fund. When Doyle offers no defense at his hearing of the Civil Aeronautics Board, his pilot’s license is permanently revoked. The dead pilot’s brother, Lt. John Thompson, believes Doyle’s sentence is too lenient, however, and vows revenge. Read More »

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Laëtitia, Roca, Nico, and Naël get together in a wasteland for their final rehearsal. The group will soon no longer exist because Laëtitia is going faraway to study. A story of these young adults who don’t want to say goodbye.Read More »

A reporter hears that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car. She goes to the hospital to interview the actress, who tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.Read More »

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After a bull is killed in a bullfight, its body parts are transported across Spain, France, Italy and Belgium. The bull’s parts fall into the wide variety of people, including: an Italian actress selling the bones in a supermarket promotion, a Spanish woman who dines on its steaks, a little girl in France who imagines a world where animals are much larger than humans, and a taxidermist whose wife is simultaneously giving birth to quintuplets.Read More »