Synopsis:
The film starts as a man in his early 40s and a woman in her late 30s, each of who has a family, set off to a small port called Wolgot. The reason for taking the trip together, despite the fact that they are strangers, is that they share a sense of affinity as well as a curiosity to know where this affinity might take them. The story takes place in a motel with its bare, characterless interior and absence of objects that are laden with memories and associations.Read More »
imdb wrote:
A woman, lost at night on a country road, is murdered. The next day, six women gather at a wilderness park for a camping weekend in honor of Susan’s birthday: Chloe, Susan’s first girlfriend; Dawn, her most recent one; Linda, Susan’s former lover now back with Steve, who has followed Linda and spies from a distance; and, Monica who used to be with Susan but is now with Andrea, who’s tagged along. They all know who cheated on whom in the Susan saga, plus they flirt or complain in turn. A fugitive may be on the loose in the park, with a private eye in pursuit. A crossbow, a blowtorch, a knife, and an animal trap figure in subsequent murders. Who’s the killer, and who survives?Read More »
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O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel’s owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.Read More »
Synopsis:
After meeting at a local pool over their summer break, a love triangle forms between three adolescent girls, which proves difficult to sustain as they each desire the love of another.Read More »
google translate wrote:
Goulag is a precise and documented investigation by the opening of the archives during the 90s but also based on Russian literature or traveling historians like Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu. A voice-over, reminiscent in many ways of the style and vision of a Chris Marker (Hélène Châtelain is the actress of La Jetée), tries to organize the logic, reversed or paradoxical, which innervates the evolution of repression, rehabilitation…Read More »
Synopsis from allmovie.com:
Author E.L. Doctorow’s acclaimed short story Jolene: A Life gets the big screen treatment in Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont’s director Dan Ireland’s independent drama about life on the road. Jolene (Jessica Chastain) is a red-haired wanderer who isn’t content to call one place home for any expended stretch of time. Setting off to explore the outside world at age fifteen, the free-spirited teen embarks on a decade-long cross-country of adventure which finds her crossing the paths of everyone from a firebrand Texan (Dermont Mulroney) who steals her heart and destroys her marriage to his wealthy fundamentalist nephew (Michael Vartan), to an ex-mobster (Chazz Palminteri) attempting to make good in Las Vegas. Denise Richards, Rupert Friend, and Theresa Russell co-star in a film adapted from the story by screenwriter Dennis Yares.Read More »
In The Life And Art Of Ernest Ludwig Kirchner, director Michael Trabitzsch boldly braids together the disparate strands of the Austrian Expressionist’s life and work–combining color with black and white photography, third person narration with first person confessions from Kirchner’s own notebooks, and an angular jazz score with the melodies of Kirchner’s day. “We claim as our own everyone who reproduces directly and without falsification whatever it is that drives him to create.” These words, carved into wood and hung in 1904 at the butcher shop group studio of Die Brucke (“the bridge”) by their author, Kirchner, were a credo that drove the artist and his work well beyond the life of the famed Dresden art collective. Read More »
Lisbela is a young woman who loves going to the movies. Leléu is a con man, going from town to town selling all sort of things and performing as master of ceremonies for some cheesy numbers, such as the woman who gets transformed into a gorilla. He gets involved with Linaura, a sexy and beautiful woman who happens to be the wife of the most frightening hitman of the place. The hitman finds out his wife’s affair and goes after Leléu, who has to leave in a hurry. In another town, he meets and falls instantly in love with Lisbela, who is engaged to Douglas, a hillbilly who tries hard to pass for a cosmopolitan Rio de Janeiro dweller.Read More »
Cornered by the DEA, convicted New York drug dealer Montgomery Brogan reevaluates his life in the 24 remaining hours before facing a seven-year jail term.Read More »