In 1941, the writers Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet fled the Nazi-occupied zone of France, arriving in Nice. There they met and befriended Henri Matisse. Aragon resolved to write a book about the grat painter, but it wasn’t until 1970, just after Elsa’s death, that he finally completed “Henri Matisse, roman”.Read More »
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The story unfolds in Monaco, which is paradise on earth for a post-reality-TV generation who have grown up fantasising over a privileged lifestyle, with its promises of infinite pleasures. But what hides within these lofty towers, and behind the tinted saloon car windows and villa gates?Read More »
The knight Guerrando is forced to leave for the Crusades before he’s had time to consummate his marriage with the beautiful Boccadoro. According to the custom of the period, Guerrando applies the chastity belt to the bride.Read More »
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In the third episode, an earl reads the announcement of a widow looking for a husband and hosts her at the castle to marry her, only to discover that it is death. He offers her, in exchange for his own, the life of his governess; death accepts as long as she is consenting and untouched. By marrying her and with a trap, the count manages to voluntarily cause the housekeeper to die but is hit by the hearse carrying his wife’s remains. The driver, to the protests of the death, replies: dead certain hora incerta. Suddenly the count wakes up and discovers that it was only a dream but he hears a car ringing, he looks out the window and sees that the widow who appeared in the dream has just arrived saying that she is the woman from the announcement.Read More »
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A group of friends share a cinematographical experience in a particular region of Spain, Galicia. The goal is simple- to film what they like, without preconceived ideas about what should be filmed. They want their images to reflect the feelings that unite them with the people they find along the way.
(translated from FILMAFFINITY)Read More »
Constructed from found and stock footage, the short is a meditation on vision and adversity, drawing humour and pathos from a moralising educational film.Read More »
PLOT: Cocteau takes the viewer on a tour of a friend’s villa on the French coast (a major location used in Testament of Orpheus). The house itself is heavily decorated, mostly by Cocteau (and a bit by Picasso), and we are given an extensive tour of the artwork. Cocteau also shows us several dozen paintings as well. Most cover mythological themes, of course. He also proudly shows paintings by Edouard Dermithe and Jean Marais and plays around his own home in Villefranche.Read More »
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Successful actress returns to her family home in rural Austria to visit her ailing father and her sister who spent her whole life taking care of him and her family. The reunion is marked by jealousy, introspection and a secret.Read More »
In this fifth episode of the “Wataridori” series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from unscrupulous land developers.Read More »