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Fascinated as much as terrified, a woman takes refuge in the privacy of her room to secretly read “Discourse against God” by the Marquis de Sade, which she has stolen from her husband’s library. The first lines she reads make her aware of the incredibly sulphurous and anticlerical aspect of this book, because in the 18th century, the refusal of God can only be brutal and protestant, a language without limits destined to break up all the prisons of men.Read More »
PLOT: Nicolas Klotz and Elisabeth Perceval’s works break down the boundaries between countries, languages and genres. Their new film mixes documentary, acting, dance and song to counteract a “politics of tracking” and advocate a radical change of approach. From the story, of a Brazzaville slave who must follow his master into death, to that of a Senegalese exile who finds himself reincarnated in Barcelona, to the trance of the Bela Vista carnival. When the House Burns Down is a visual poem that celebrates the collective dimension of life.Read More »
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A female novelist takes a long trip to visit a bookstore run by a younger colleague who has fallen out of touch. Then she goes up a tower on her own and runs into a film director and his wife. They take a walk in a park and meet an actress, after which the novelist tries to convince the actress to make a film with her. She and the actress get something to eat, then revisit the bookstore where a group of people are drinking. The actress gets drunk and falls asleep.Read More »
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Italy, 1900. Agata is a young woman who embarks herself on a desperate journey to reach a mysterious sanctuary to save her daughter’s soul from the eternal damnation of Limbo.Read More »
Like lost girls on a winter’s day, Alona and Hagar ramble through the streets of Haifa. One is escaping her life, the other her future.Read More »
Well into middle-age, but still grasping at the reckless pleasures of his youth, Roque is locked in a pattern of self-destruction. His parents cast him out from their home in Caracas and Roque returns to the Amazon and the derelict tourist lodge he built and ran in a previous life. His aim is to rebuild both the lodge and himself, quitting alcohol for good in the process. But temptations are strong in the jungle. A feverish voyage of discovery through the hinterland between madness and salvation, La Fortaleza is a superb second feature from Venezuelan director Jorge Thielen Armand. What makes it all the more fascinating is the fact that Roque is played by Armand’s own father, Jorge Roque Thielen, and that the screenplay is inspired by his stories of building the lodge and battling alcoholism against a tinderbox backdrop of sparking violence and unrest. Wendy IdeRead More »
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Anaïs is thirty and broke. She has a lover, but she’s not sure she loves him anymore. She meets Daniel, who immediately falls for her. But Daniel lives with Emilie – whom Anaïs also falls for. This is the story of a restless young woman. And the story of a profound desire.Read More »
Leonard, about to lose his girlfriend, home and job, is now having strange hallucinations. Is it stress or an after effect of new technology installed all over the city? He must figure it out or he’ll be trapped in this nightmare forever.Read More »
Miranda decides to ask Luisa, who is far from her friend, to help her to have an abortion. Both will share an afternoon of complicity and empathy that will end with the promise of keeping the secret.Read More »