1970s

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Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully – a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come – all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?Read More »

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After the huge critical and box-office acclaim of the allegoric, iconoclast political satire “Macunaíma” (1969), director Joaquim Pedro de Andrade raised funds in Brazil and Italy (through RAI-TV) to make “Os Inconfidentes”, a politically and artistically ambitious (though low budget) film that tries to reassess historically the most important political event in colonial Brazil – the ill-fated plotting of a coup d’état by a group of Brazilian military officers, poets and intellectuals aiming to overthrow the Portuguese Crown and establish a Brazilian Independent Republic in 1789, inspired by the success of the U.S. independence.Read More »

A lady fugitive on the run from corrupt government officials is joined in her endeavors by an unambitious painter and skilled Buddhist monks.Read More »

Weekend in Sochaux is not a militant film, at least not like the others. Shot in 1971, in these times of activism (and sectarianism) marked by the events of May 68, it is first of all the story of an encounter.
A group of young militant workers, OS at the Peugeot factory, solicited at home by the in-house recruiters, disembarked in Sochaux carrying all their belongings on their backs and immediately caught up in the chains of the Peugeot empire, manufacturing chain, chain of hotels for singles, chain of Peugeot department stores, jokingly named Ravi…
“Delighted to make your acquaintance and where better to have one’s youth delighted? “
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Fearing being deported, Gabi, a young foreign girl looks for a husband, and even has 5,000 German Marks for him. But within the free and marital environment of the commune there are no candidates for a wedding. (imdb)Read More »

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Huszárik made two experimental shorts in 1971 and 1976, entitled Tisztelet az öregasszonyoknak/Homage to Old Ladies and A Piacere/As You Like It, respectively. The first is a homage to the old country widows whose husbands died in World War II and live their lives according to daily tasks and regulations until they die (which is mainly inspired by Huszárik’s own mother). The second is a study of death in its various forms, including a gypsy “merry funeral” and stock footage of bombings and concentration camps in WWII.Read More »

This is one of Noronha da Costa’s films in which the “fictional” component is most visible. D. Jaime or the Portuguese Night, like the rest of Noronha da Costa’s films, is part of the gothic films (Terence Fisher’s work was one of his great influences), and in it he shows the different variations around the “specular bodies”, which evolve into luminous magic and into sensual and sensory incandescence. At the same time, we witness a series of ironic and erotic, or historical, views of wicked virgins and laughable sadists, all resurrected from German and British romanticism, while the scenery is no longer Portuguese.Read More »

A rarely seen classic, PRIDE OF PLACE was made as a first project while Longinotto was a student at England’s National School of Television and Film. As a teenager, the filmmaker had been condemned to a girls’ boarding school in an old, isolated castle in Buckinghamshire. Wisely, she ran away at the age of 17, and years later took the opportunity for sweet revenge. In this dark and expressive film, Longinotto exposes the repressive school from the students’ perspective—as a kind of miniature state with bizarre rules, indigestible food and absurd punishments. One year after the release of the film, the boarding school was closed down. With PRIDE OF PLACE, Longinotto sets the tone for a long career of films in which individuals revolt against oppressive authorities and stifling traditions.Read More »

A private investigator is confronted by the police and the mob about the killing of a former private-eye associate.Read More »