Baker’s apprentice Chris is sacked from his job for being late. Unwilling to give up the flat that goes with the job, he and his friends resort to squatting. Liv, a Swedish girl moves in and is soon followed by Léon the car mechanic and Rosette, a girl from the bakery.
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The return of the son of the film, a thirtysomething Selja (Ylipää) as a young childless mixed with the adopting of everyday life, which is built on work, friends, and relationships around it.Read More »
After 14 years in prison, Myagmar’s only companions are the stray dogs he adopts. Hired as a hearse driver, he meets two people who will reshape his life: a young Buddhist monk and Saruul, the beautiful daughter of a blind coffin maker.Read More »
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In “Anger,” a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In “Sloth,” a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can’t be bothered to accept a starlet’s sexual favors. In “Gluttony,” a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In “Greed,” a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet’s lottery ticket. In “Pride,” an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.Read More »
Synopsis:
A wife (Ayako Wakao) is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband (Eiji Funakoshi) loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is tormented by the fact that she is ruining her husband’s future, and decides to divorce him as the only thing she can do for him.Read More »
Kai is talented but adrift, spending his days sulking in a small fishing village after his family moves from Tokyo. His only joy is uploading songs he writes to the internet. When his classmates invite him to play keyboard in their band, their practice sessions bring an unexpected guest: Lu, a young mermaid whose fins turn to feet when she hears the beats, and whose singing causes humans to compulsively dance – whether they want to or not. As Kai spends more time with Lu, he finds he is able to tell her what he is really thinking, and a bond begins to form. But since ancient times, the people in the village have believed that mermaids bring disaster and soon there is trouble between Lu and the townspeople, putting the town in grave danger.Read More »
Paris, 1959. A young Jean-Luc Godard is determined to make his debut film. Battling conventions, budgetary chaos and sceptical producers, he and his collaborators launch a quiet revolution in cinema, capturing the raw energy of the era.Read More »
An English tourist couple rent a boat to visit the island of Almanzora, just off the southern Spanish coast. When they arrive, they find the island apparently empty of adults. There are only children, who don’t speak but just stare at the strangers with eerie smiles on their faces. The English couple soon discovers that all the islands children have been possessed by a mysterious force, a kind of madness which they can pass from one to another, and which makes them attack and murder their elders, who can’t defend themselves because, of course, nobody can kill a child…
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imdb says:
Yu decides on a whim to make a film over her high school’s summer break, enlisting the help of four old and new friends. The relationship dynamics change as the group get closer to finishing the film.Read More »