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A chorus line girl, Virginia and a small time smuggler, Aldo try to be together and change their lives. He cannot find a job however while she has to bear lots of men making passes at her.Read More »

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A university student wants to avenge his sister from a businessman who abandoned her after leaving her pregnant. To do this, he decides to seduce the man’s sister to make him suffer the same fate.Read More »

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Noura struggles to reconcile two worlds, Muslim women and men, while also dealing with his own sexuality.Read More »

There are two versions of “Toire No Hanako-san.” The first version, released in 1995, was set in an elementary school and centered on a boy named Takuya and a new transfer student named Saeko (Maeda Ai plays Takuya’s younger brother). Takuya’s classmates think that Saeko has been possessed by Hanako, the ghost that lives in the bathroom. The rumor is especially encouraged by a girl who has a crush on Takuya and is jealous since Takuya likes Saeko. The second version, released in 1998, centers on a group of high school girls (among them Maeda Ai and Nomura Yuka) who inadvertently release a demonic doll from a shrine outside of their school.Read More »

After their daughter’s kidnapping, the Prices are forced to sell everything, but their new life as a working class family proves difficult.Read More »

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Fernando, an unemployed teacher, survives at the expense of his lifemate, textile worker Rita. One weekend, the couple, who lives in the region of São Paulo ABC, meets with computer technician Luiz Carlos and his girlfriend, inexperienced Lilita. Luiz Carlos, who was Fernando’s student, is reactionary and upstart. The two couples, amid the bucolic scenery of Billings Dam, find the corpse of a newly hanged man.Read More »

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A critique of the social values of upper middle class women in Rio de Janeiro.

Helena Solberg’s A Entrevista (1966), was filmed in 1964, the year that marked the beginning of the military coup in Brazil. The film was released two years later, at the height of the Cinema Novo movement, and generated a buzz at its premiere due to its themes. The 19-minute short film is the result of interviews conducted with several women between the ages of 19 and 27 who are upper-middle-class. The interviewees talk about marriage, sex, virginity, fidelity, happiness, work, and the social roles that are assigned or imposed on women. Read More »

In Southern Tunisia, Mattéo, a local who lives off the generosity of his listeners as he spends his time telling stories in the streets of Sfax, falls in love with a prostitute, Safia. She gives up her profession and they move, Matteo working at the port, in a house on the edge of the desert in which Mattéo’s father (the Maltese) live. But Safia being pregnant, Mattéo gets involved with a gang of gun smugglers, hoping to earn more money to provide for his family. But Matteo doesn’t come back and Safia belives him dead. Matteo’s father kicks her out of the house and she meets André, an archeologist who falls under her spell and she accepts to follow him to Paris. Three years later, out of jail, Matteo goes to Paris, hoping to find his beloved Safia and their child.Read More »

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Realtime, an experimental feature, impresses as an early reflection of the interaction between computer graphics and military technology, of simulation and reality in a world governed by electronic systems and increasing automation. (MUBI)Read More »