To escape past traumas, a truck driver John decides to leave his hometown behind and travel cross the country. Alone and lonely he drives all over Brazil until John discovers hiding in his truck a motherless boy looking for his father. Reluctantly, John agrees to take the boy to the nearest town and, during the trip, he finally finds the courage to face his past.Read More »
In a boxcar, three escapees hope to get to Sweden; there’s the military man who wants to resume the fight, the simple private who’s tired of being a fighter, and the intellectual, a schoolteacher fluent in German -which is useful- who does not exactly what he is going to do. Their main problem is water. On the train,their journey will be perilous: every station is a threat, for they may be discovered by the German soldiers.Read More »
Tinto Brass and his secretary Lucia (Cinzia Roccaforte) are in the Venice office of the director. Lucia reads series of the letters consist of confessions, dreams, secrets, hidden desires, fantasies and memories of seven of Brass’s female fans from around Italy. Some of them are accompanied by photos and videotapes with their stories and those real stories of seven women’s erotic adventures which are subsequently transformed into short sex vignettes while there is also exploring people’s celebration of the director’s work. Tinto Brass uses his own name and is mentioned as an erotic film master.Read More »
Synopsis:
Everything Everywhere Again Alive is a landmark work of Canadian underground cinema, a film diary with mystic and symbolic overtones. In the early 1970s, Toronto filmmaker Keith Lock moved to Buck Lake, where members of the Toronto art scene were undertaking an experiment in communal living. Lock filmed the achievements and daily rituals of his fellow communards, his camera bearing witness as a community assembled and dispersed. The resulting film uses poetic strategies, including logograms and other graphic disruptions, to extend its themes of renewal and rebirth, and to mark the encounter between reason and imagination, the concrete and the abstract.Read More »
The pastor of a mountain village adopts a small blind girl, Gertrude. As Gertrude grows up into an attractive young woman the pastor, now middle-aged, realises that he is in love with her. To his chagrin, his adopted son, Jean, is also in love with Gertrude, even though he is shortly to be married to another woman. Jean’s fiancée is jealous of Gertrude and arranges for her to see a doctor in the hope that she might be cured and to enable Jean to choose equally between the two women. Miraculously, Gertrude’s sight is restored and she returns to the village a changed woman. Unable to accept Jean’s love and disappointed by the pastor’s affections for her, she realises that her former happiness has been lost forever. (Films de France)Read More »
Mukhamukham arouse controversy as the theme of the film was the degeneration of leftist politics and came under attack from the leftist parties of Kerala.
“Even before it was released there were rumours that it was an anti-communist film. When it was released, it was criticized as anti-communist. I think it has something to do with film literacy. We are not able to react to a film naturally. Instead we are aghast that a communist drinks alcohol and we pick on that. That is not the way to approach a work of art.” – AdoorRead More »
A couple, Tamara and Alon meet each other in a hotel suite for a day full of fantasy, they are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary and this is their routine celebration. But this year is different. Through this day secrets, lies, will be coming out while they are both living their sexual fantasy. As they go along through the revelation of secrets, infidelities and untold desires the experience becomes more and more painful for both of them.Read More »
NYT – Janet Maslin
THE great historical pageant that is Ettore Scola’s ”La Nuit de Varennes” unfolds with supreme ease. It begins with a series of casual coincidences and weaves them brilliantly into a vision of one of the most important moments in French history, a vision not the least bit limited by the specifics of its place and time.
The time is the French Revolution, and the occasion is the flight of the royal family from Paris to the small town of Varennes, where they will be captured and sent back to their deaths. But the feeling is utterly modern, or perhaps it’s timeless. The key issues of the film are the issues of any era. And the humor and generosity with which Mr. Scola presents them are correspondingly enduring.Read More »
Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord (Tayu). The evil woman Ogin tries to gain power by killing all the people who disturb her.Read More »