After finding her boss, a private detective, has committed suicide and has left her his agency, Cordelia Gray is asked to investigate the suicide of the man’s son. During the course of her investigation, Cordelia becomes obsessed with the young man’s memory and his increasingly suspicious death.Read More »
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Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor Body for a feature-length, 261-minute film. Borrowing the character of Psyche from mythology and placing her in Europe in the 19th century, the authors give her a “modern” life. She is an attractive young woman – and remains so throughout the film, in spite of one hardship after another. Psyche is libidinous, and her prurient interests shock her staid contemporaries. For reasons that the viewer is left to ponder, her life is almost a living punishment for her sexual laxity. Her child is taken away and killed, and although she is in love with her tutor, who has syphilis, she marries another man. She is suffering herself from some affliction, which leads to hospital scenes that are acerbic commentaries on 19th c. Western medicine. Psyche is about to leave for America with her husband, when the story takes another abrupt turn.Read More »
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Austria, 1942: A deserter hides from his pursuers in the caves near a small mountain village. He only ventures outside at night to get food from his wife in the village. But the Gestapo and the local police are hot on the fugitive’s heels.
“In contrast to the fashionable bells and whistles and pleasing arts and crafts, in contrast to the average that is becoming more and more widespread in cinema, this quiet, dense “little” film is a feast for the eyes. Predominantly static shots, clear and simply structured black and white images remind us of what cinema actually is or should be about.” – (Süddeutsche Zeitung)Read More »
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.Read More »
Haitian Song is an anthropological film about farmers in rural Haiti. The film follows Gustav and Zillmen and the everyday rituals that mark their lifestyle.Read More »
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Two themes arise from the story, themes that are interlocked: the theme of love and of man’s eternal submission to traditional symbols. The director Zivko Nikolic continues his movie saga of human nature. Both themes develop the mythical idea of temptation. It is basic human relation: from the intimate to the families’ vying with each other.Read More »
A woman finds something quaint in her kitchen sink and feels strangely captivated towards it.Read More »
Molinat (Phillippe Noiret) and Leroyer (Guy Marchand) are two cops who hate each others guts but are called on to solve the gunshot deaths of victims found on an Atlantic beach resort. The two focus on some females who have a psychological problem with men who are breathing. Molinat sends Leroyer to investigate some sultry suspects, knowing his hated colleague may never come back alive. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie GuideRead More »
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To satisfy her lover’s fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by which his assistant, Harutsune, keeps Katsuko’s mind off the pain while Kyogoro does his work. After the work is done, Harutsune makes the shocking discovery of how Kyogoro mastered his technique. Written by Jean-Marc Rocher@IMDBRead More »