This is a film adaptation of a chamber drama of the same title by Plínio Marcos which is something of a classic repertory piece in Brazilian theater.
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A decadent hooker, her pimp and the bordello’s gay cleaner fight over the gigolo’s missing money, with the utmost mental cruelty.Read More »
When he learns of his mother’s death, Thomas returns to Brazil with Beni, his partner, and is told he now owns a country house that used to belong to a grandmother he never met. Curious to connect with his family history, they vis…Read More »
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Two years after Jimmy Stewart chased a very special firearm, 1952 brought a flick that followed a similar concept. Springfield Rifle features Gary Cooper in a Western that involves another amazing weapon.
Set during the Civil War, Union Major Lex Kearny (Cooper) gets a dishonorable discharge related to cowardice in battle. This disrupts his life in a mix of ways, especially when his family feels shame.Read More »
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It is 1912, and George Apley (Ronald Colman) is a stuffy, self-satisfied member of Boston’s upper class, confident of the superiority of his hometown and his family. He is fond of quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson at every opportunity. For 18 years, he has hosted Thanksgiving dinners at his home, but the dinner that opens the film marks an irrevocable change. His comfortable, predictable world is overturned when he learns, to his horror, that both his son and his daughter have fallen in love with non-Bostonians instead of with the partners he has arranged. Son John, always intended for his cousin Agnes, a shy girl who adores him, has fallen for Myrtle, the daughter of a successful manufacturer who lives in Worcester. Daughter Eleanor is in love with Howard Boulder, a lecturer at Harvard whom George causes to lose his job.
Will George learn his lessons and become a better person?Read More »
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Greta Scacchi plays a lonely spinster living on her own on a secluded farm in the mid-west of the USA. Unable to keep the farm by herself she hires a drifter, played by Bill Sage, as her handyman in return for food and lodging. As Christmas approaches the relationship between the two blossoms with a surprising and unexpected turn.Read More »
Sight gags, puns and non-sequiturs abound as bumbling Sgt. Det. Lt. Frank Drebin and his colleagues of Police Squad solve various puzzling cases.Read More »
A sophisticated and self-assured woman from Paris joins a middle-class rural estate as a maid and causes quite a stir among the variously uptight, perverse and violent inhabitants.Read More »
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The enormous amount of modern stars surrounding us is not a fantastic sparkle of light, but a litter of false information. The “I” in this film collects messages from an imaginary research company. A unique personal film that confronts the fictionalised reality on an equal level. (IFF, 1996).Read More »
A wealthy Chilean landowner is used to having powers within his domain which would not surprise a feudal lord in Spain in the 14th century. In this story, set in 1917, Julio Garcia Castano is preparing to celebrate his son’s 15th birthday by inviting a selection of local whores to vie for the privilege of initiating him into sexual manhood. His plans go awry when the boy (who is also named Julio) and one of the prostitutes fall in love with each other. With a ruthlessness that would put a Borgia to shame, he ends the relationship. He also has a boundary dispute with a nearby Franciscan monastery, which he solves with similar dispatch. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie GuideRead More »