Set in Brussels, where Suzanne Beulemans, the daughter of a rich brewer is promised to marry Séraphin Meulemeester, the son of a rival brewer. The young man and his father both seem particularly motivated by the dowry of the young fiancée. But Séraphin has a rival in Albert Delpierre, a young Frenchman who is learning brewery from Ferdinand Beulemans and who is discreetly enamoured with the young woman. Albert learns Séraphin’s secret that he is having an affair with a worker and that they have had a child. He promises Séraphin that he will never reveal any of it to Suzanne, but she is told by Isabelle, her maid.Read More »

‘A young novice is about to take her vows upon entering a convent when her recent past comes back to haunt her. Her priest has received an anonymous letter which suggests she is far from capable of pursuing the life of a nun. Distraught, the novice reveals the tragic tale that drove her to her present predicament. Previously, the novice, Rita, lived with her mother on a vast farm estate that she had inherited from her father. Unable to sell the farm until she came of age, Rita could only watch her mother become more miserable by the struggle to keep the farm running. To speed things up, Rita decides to get married. Unfortunately, the man she has in her sights also happens to be her mother’s lover…’
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Two American soldiers escape from a Japanese prison camp, in order to reach Mindanao and hand over to the Allied Forces a top secret coding device.Read More »

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Arnaud, a student remaining alone in Paris during the summer, is obsessed with the wall where the names of the Parisian soldiers who died in the 1914 war are engraved. He finds himself confronted by one of these soldiers, who invites him to step out of time and to bring comfort to his loved ones.Read More »

A high level criminal attempts to enslave the world by thought control through TV.Read More »

Parthenope, born in the sea of Naples in 1950, searches for happiness over the long summers of her youth, falling in love with her home city and its many memorable characters. From Academy Award-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino comes a monumental and deeply romantic story of a lifetime.Read More »

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Born to Film (Cinéastes à Tout Prix)

RousseauWith winning merriment and generous clips, Frédéric Sojcher’s Born to Film (Cinéastes à Tout Prix) explores the oeuvre of three Belgian pioneers of outsider cinema (the U.S. counterpart might be Chris Smith’s American Movie). These dime-store DeMilles practice a cinema that’s home-made and a hundred percent hands-on. The 78-year-old Max Naveaux, for one, even develops all his own films in equipment he himself invented. Hiding behind no fig leaf of intellectual experimentation, Naveaux vigorously mines his beloved war film genre in such unsung and largely unseen features as Hell Patrol and Maquis Contra Gestapo.Read More »

He is one of Germany’s most important artists, a man who has spent his life intervening, provoking, polarizing. No other contemporary artist has succeeded in capturing the German psychic landscape on canvas more arrestingly than Düsseldorf painter Jörg Immendorff. He has worked without pause, a driven man, devoting all of his strength to his work and his creative life. Then suddenly, in 1998, everything changed. A fatal illness had crept into his body. Jörg Immendorff’s painting hand, his left, became paralyzed during vacation. His general practitioner sent him to a neurologist, whose diagnosis was devastating: Immendorff had become a victim of the rare Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS), which leads to paralysis of the musculature, and finally to an inexorable death by suffocation.Read More »

“The film is about a farmer who lives in the last farm in his region in Vestfirðir, Iceland. His wife dies few days before they two are scheduled to leave the farm for a retirement home. The farmer keeps the death a secret from his daughter who is coming to pick them up, and concocts a plan, revealed in the last scene.

It was directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson, and stars Icelandic actor Jón Sigurbjörnsson. The film was scored by Kjartan Sveinsson, the keyboardist for Sigur Rós.” – Wikipedia.Read More »