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Star, a teenage girl with nothing to lose, joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.Read More »
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In 1802, Alexandre De Humbolt and Aimé Bonpland stayed in Ecuador to study the topography of the country. Their goal is to climb the Chimborazo volcano, reaching 6,267 meters and considered at the time as the highest peak in the world.Read More »
Female teacher Kyoko Miyake is left in a provincial fishing town. Her younger sister Chika quit her job and followed her. Kyoko’s class is one of the most difficult classes in the school, and all the teachers have a hard time dealing with the problem child Takeshi. The family next door, Yamazaki Dentistry, has only four siblings and a father. The second son, Jiro, was a thug who had returned from Tokyo.Read More »
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Willie discovers in a manuscript that a treasure lies buried in a rock and that whoever is prepared to make a human sacrifice will see the rock open up and reveal its treasure. Willie locates the rock, but the victim (who must be a young girl) is nowhere to be found. Then, one day, when he least expected it, a girl stands before him, resplendent… Ironically, he falls deeply in love with her.Read More »
A young writer can’t write a word for his next novel, he also doesn’t feel right with his fiancée; because he falls in love with a woman, but he can’t remember who she is and can’t figure out if she’s real or just a dream.Read More »
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Raw and intimate, this documentary captures the struggles of patients and frontline medical professionals battling the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan.Read More »
In search of housing, a student finds an ad about renting an apartment for a very reasonable fee – and immediately agrees to a woman who recently buried her son to comply with all her conditions. The young man moves into the apartment and gradually becomes a witness of incomprehensible mystical phenomena.Read More »
An ex-cop discovers that his brother’s recent death is intertwined with both the Los Angeles underworld and the city’s porno movie scene.Read More »
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A film by Paulo Rocha about Amadeo de Souza Cardoso
“I tried to film that period of his paintings in a different style, as if the camera was a brush in Amadeo’s hand with his colors and shapes”, Paulo Rocha
In Máscara de Aço contra Abismo Azul (Mask of Steel Versus Blue Abyss), Paulo Rocha does a surprising “collage” about the Portuguese modernism, centered in Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso. Between the reproduction of the Orpheu years and the Futuristic Manifest, the installation of a exhibition in Gulbenkian and a juggling onirism, Paulo Rocha offers one of the most singular and fascinating visions of that world of colors and metals, so longing as anarchist, so soaring as insecure.Read More »