In the second instalment of “The Three Worlds of Nick”, Paizs’ silent hero sets off to college where he meets Brock West (Winnipeg journalist and rocker Peter Jordon, aka Rocky Roletti). Unwittingly, Nick becomes involved in attempts to restore an old campus hangout and in the dirty political tricks swirling around a hard fought student election. The film successfully weaves the tone of college hijinx movies through the clever spoof of electoral trends, suggesting how easily old fashioned ethics can turn into fashion.Read More »

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With its bigger-name cast and audio-visual sparkle, “Saint Laurent” also seems the safer commercial bet for international distribs, effectively the “Coco Before Chanel” to its rival’s “Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky.” Sony Pictures Classics has already snatched it the film off the rack for the U.S., and should be feeling a little more confident than “Yves Saint Laurent” guardians the Weinstein Co. Still, Bonello’s sexier number must gamble on sustained audience interest in a chilly figure whose life — notwithstanding the drugs, desires and debauchery that go with the high-fashion terrain — wasn’t extraordinarily dramatic.Read More »

While pregnant with her first child, Emma learns that she has breast cancer. Her doctor advises an abortion; recommended treatment is, according to him, incompatible with pregnancy. Her partner, Simon, encourages Emma to consult another specialist, Dr. Morin, who maintains that treatment can be carried out even while she’s pregnant. Emma regains her confidence. The body that had let her down becomes a source of life: now she must fight for two.Read More »

A man and his wife decide they can afford to have a house in the country built to their specifications. It’s a lot more trouble than they think.Read More »

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Young Carol Henderson ends up in prison, where she must learn how to survive in an environment plagued by violence, murder, rape, racism, drugs, and staff corruption and brutality.Read More »

After severely burning himself in a drug incident, a comedian has a near death experience in which he reviews his life.Read More »

A black comedy about death with a happy ending. A splendid chain of unlikely encounters. Hunters, a tractor driver, a disco boy, and a corpse.Read More »

Story about the fall of an accountant enthralled by the sexual charms of a cabaret dancer.Read More »

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The final completed film by Kim, one of the foremost directors of South Korea’s golden age, this gender-flipped take on Patricia Highsmith’s novel Strangers on a Train sees two women (one of them, Minari’s Youn Yuh-jung) make a deal to bump off one another’s spouses, who are guilty of neglect and infidelity.Read More »