A woman is reduced to tears. She bends over backwards trying to be a good wife and mother. Her head is cut off from her heart. A doctor picks her brain. A boy inherits his mother’s depression.
Short of Breath is a haunting, emotional collage about birth, death, sex and suicide.Read More »
Synopsis(borrowed from Sixpackfilm)
Resistance to the political change which took place in Austria in the year 2000, even when coming from members of the alleged opposition, is repeatedly dismissed as a hysterical reaction. The claim is made that this was a “normal democratic change.”
This characterization obscures the fact that the protest was directed primarily at a party whose populist program is intended to mobilize authoritarian and misanthropic prejudices. Furthermore, these protests were and are intended to stop the “integration of popular racism” (Steyerl) into the social and political mainstream, which is also on the rise in countries other than Austria.Read More »
Unstable man spends the summer in an empty mansion, where he meets punks, serial killers and witches.Read More »
Director (Luc Delahaye) with his casting assistant (Sylvie Peyre) are in search of a new face – an actress for the head role in his next movie. A series of interviews with young actresses and ordinary french woman, seen on Gare Saint-Lazire, follows.Read More »
A love story between two emotionally damaged outsiders, played by Alexis Loret and Juliette Binoche, which marked Techine’s return to the haunting and intense territory of Les Roseaux Savages. Highly praised for its effective use of an unorthodox narrative structure, it tells the story of Martin, who runs away from his rural French home under mysterious circumstances and ends up at his half-brother’s flat in Paris, where he meets and falls in love with the his roommate Alice. When Alice informs him that she is pregnant, he has a sudden flashback of what happened to make him flee his father’s house…Read More »
Nami is a photographer on the set of a porn film. When photographing a rape scene between a teacher and a schoolgirl, she becomes uncomfortable, having remembered a similar incident in her own past.Read More »
A young writer whose proposal was recently rejected goes to Greenland to spend a year at an outpost for hunting and trapping animals for furs. At the outpost he meets two men who are none too keen to spend the winter with the newcomer.Read More »
Aurélie, five years old, is spending holidays with her grandmother with her sister and her young uncle. But one day their father, after fifteen years of absence, returns to the heart of the family clan, disturbing their summer peace.Read More »
Synopsis:
Upon knowing that her husband purposefully exchanged her body for business, Lam loses her control and plans to kill her husband.Read More »