allmovie wrote:
The young hit man in this movie cannot bring himself to fulfill his contract on Katie (Delphine Seyrig), and for a little while the two have an affair. Even after their affair is over, he hesitates, which has dire consequences for the two of them.Read More »
Tender and erotic love story of a respectable bourgeois housewife and a large black Alsatian dog.
Shot in 1977, the film employs bestiality as a symbol of Spain’s political landscape. It makes references to the massacre of Atocha and to political right wing groups that after the death of Francisco Franco, tried to maintain the dictator’s political ideals.Read More »
Middle aged bourgeoisie couple lives a loveless life along with their beautiful 18 year old daughter. The man has a passionate desire for the girl who in fact is not his real daughter but the fruit of an affair of the woman early in the marriage. This leads to tragic events.
Starring: Guðrún Ásmundsdóttir, Steindór Hjörleifsson, Þóra Sigurþórsdóttir, Guðrún Stephensen, Róbert Arnfinnsson, Sigrún Edda Björnsdóttir, Pétur Einarsson & Hörður Torfason.Read More »
Ggle Translate wrote:
The film seems to be organized around a great threat with the appearance of rumor; a representation of chaos through the apocalyptic fugues of herds of animals, terrified, whose camera gazes sometimes seem like desperate calls, but whose inertia in flight finds the counterpoint with the peaceful flight of clouds of birds escaping from the earth and men, who colonize it with the sound of guns.Read More »
This strange Hungarian film is a cross between a “candid camera” documentary and a surreal fantasy. The film’s two actors impersonate traveling portrait photographers visiting a small Hungarian village. There is an uncanny congruence between the peasants’ favored forms of photographic expression and the antique photographs that they are shown as examples of the kind of work they can hire. This becomes unsettling as the film shows the peasants of today investigating pictures of the peasants of yesteryear and looking exactly the same.Read More »
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A short film in which a director’s voice appears to be directing all the action on a busy London street.Read More »
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Benegal’s successful feature debut is set in feudal AP and consolidated the New Indian Cinema movement. The politically inflected melodrama tells of a newly married urban youth, Surya (Nag, in his Hindi film debut), who is sent alone to his rural home to look after his ancestral property. Finding himself in the role of the traditional landlord, he has an affair with Lakshmi (Azmi, in her extremely powerful film debut), the young wife of a deaf- mute labourer (Meher), and she becomes pregnant. Her husband, believing the child to be his, goes to tell the landlord the good news but Surya, consumed by his guilt and afraid of being exposed, beats the man almost to death. Lakshmi then turns on her former lover with a passionate speech calling for a revolutionary overthrow of feudal rule. In the last shot, a young boy throws a stone at Surya’s house and then the screen turns red.Read More »
Genuine Italian-Mexican co-production of the 70’s, as relevant as ever. Sergio Fuentes is a kind fisherman who wants to build himself a better future elsewhere. He crosses the border and settles in New York. But life for immigrants in 1970’s New York is brutal and a downbeat cynical journey. He will have to fight for his life as he falls in love with a dangerous boss’ girlfriend.Read More »
