Three siblings craft a knight-like figure, only to unleash a barrage of arrows upon it. Through the seasons, we observe their lives as they both construct and demolish their lifelike creation.Read More »

Follows Russian soldiers in combat, revealing colonial history and their increasingly unclear motivations amid daily struggles and losses.Read More »

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A man faces police questioning after helping a drunk girl the night before.Read More »

A young man decides one night to leave the woman he loves. He tells him by phone. All night, he calls her. They talk about this dead love. The young man is a painter. He meets a runaway teenager who prostitutes himself to eat. Strong bonds are created between the painter and the teenager.

“Au cours de son errance nocturne à Paris, Jean se souvient de sa passion pour Stella à laquelle il vient d’annoncer la fin de leur liaison. Il rencontre Jeannot, un jeune prostitué, devant la gare de Lyon : les deux hommes se racontent leurs tourments, poursuivant ensemble leur déambulation à travers la capitale…”Read More »

A London police inspector becomes attracted to a ship’s radio operator and discovers smuggled gems. He must arrest her if guilty, protect her from the smuggling gang, and protect her from the silenced gang.Read More »

This most seminal of stories has given birth to many inferior versions too numerous to count, but it takes the BBC once again to be faithful to the original masterwork.
The underlying theme of which stresses that, not all scientific discoveries are beneficial to mankind.
The eponymous character is a brilliant but obsessive researcher, who’s experiments in Optical Densities lead him eventually into a downward spiral of crime, violence and Death.
Although made in 1984 the special effects are rather good, the scenes of Griffin becoming Invisible, layer by layer are worthy of a big budget film.
This is as close as you’ll get if you haven’t read the book.
And if not why not? it’s excellent.
Produced by Barry Letts, screenplay by Terrance Dicks.
Story first publised 1897. Review: Keith SnowdonRead More »

Delphine is twenty years old. She is too young to have experienced the activism of the seventies, but for her it is not something that belongs to the past. She decides to find something that will allow her to act and which, she claims, is owed to her.Read More »

Taoping Qiang Village, with a history of more than two thousand years, is located in the deep mountains far away from the city. In today’s modernization, advanced transportation vehicles have brought tourists and researchers from all over the world to this mysterious and fascinating place. The people in the stockade are very hospitable. They entertain guests with good food and wine, and at the same time remind them not to kiss the girls in the stockade casually.Read More »

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Set in a small Nagano village in the 1930s, the film follows Hanji, a young boy captivated by a local kabuki performance. Inspired by Yukio, Hanji learns kabuki with Utako. As they grow, they become skilled actors, performing in a final kabuki before World War II. After the war, Hanji returns to revive kabuki and restore the community’s spirit. In the 1980s, as he nears death, the villagers organise a final performance in his honour, where he performs “Tenryu Koishibuki” for Yukio.Read More »