Synopsis:
In this tale, the scenes are simultaneously clear and labyrinthine.
Four people, the old man, the young woman, the soldier and the player walk around an imaginary topography across continents. They escape from their everyday existence. Each one of them starts out, alone, only to meet up and form a group, which is to move along like an expedition. Suddenly they come across a clearing, a city, a desert, an ocean. They all follow the ardent desire that drove them to leave.
Through their conversations, their discussions, rejoinders, monologues and dreams, they tell the story.
One day, the old man disappears, he who had guided the group. What remains is the search and the dream of finding hem again.

LAbsence.1992.DVDRip.x264.mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 45mn
Size:	1.85 GiB
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Frame rate:	25.000 fps
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French 2.0ch MP3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/AFABA89EA034F63/LAbsence.1992.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:German, Russian

The post Peter Handke – L’Absence AKA The Absence (1993) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

In an intriguing long take static shot of the oppressively barren Siberian frontier, a converted tank (turned off-road passenger utility vehicle) traverses a rugged terrain that seemingly bisects a rural, indigenous village, disappears in a spray of displaced mud as it sinks partially out of frame into a trench, then momentarily re-emerges to continue on its plodding journey, only to become imperceptible from the horizon once again as it descends into a series of depressions on the gravel road. Watching this sequence (and film) again within the added context of having also seen Twentynine Palms, I couldn’t help but think that Bruno Dumont must somehow have been influenced by this unstructured and glacially paced, yet lucidly pure, challenging, and entrancingly reductive film by Lithuanian filmmaker Sharunas Bartas, a feature that he developed from his earlier diploma film, Tolofaria on the nomadic, indigenous tribe.

On the surface is the casting of perennial Bartas actress, Yekaterina Golubeva, whose handsome, angular features and enigmatic opacity articulate ennui, despair, and longing in their most elemental form through her abstract, disconnected gaze. Navigating through the barren, alien terrain of the Sayan mountains where Tolofar nomads still lead a primitive, threadbare existence (after she seemingly falls from the sky, having been deposited by a helicopter onto the top of a rock quarry), the adrift young woman takes up shelter at a way station, isolated by language and culture from the daily rituals of the Tolofarians, until an act of violence causes her to leave the village and continue her wandering – figuratively disappearing into the landscape in an exquisite long take that matches the earlier shot of the converted tank laboriously making its way through the trenches of the inhospitable pass. It is this sense of interminable journey through a vast, unknown landscape, coupled by a reinforcing image of (apparent) visual dissolution from that landscape, that seems to particularly coincide with Dumont’s expressed intent to create a kind of road movie that “erases” the characters in order to convey tone and sensation solely by the abstract filming of landscape (as he explained in the Q&A for Twentynine Palms). Moreover, Bartas incorporates an unanticipated (and even more shocking) secondary act of unprovoked violence in the film’s final sequences, a deflection of narrative trajectory that is similarly incorporated (though with mixed results) in Dumont’s film. However, what inevitably makes the maddeningly paced Few of Us, nevertheless, a strangely transfixing and indelible experience is the ethnographic realism that pervades its stark, rigorous imagery – its ability to trace an austere and moribund cultural history through impassive, weather-worn faces, perpetual transience, and silent ritual – to capture the image of lost souls that lay beneath the vacant, anonymous gaze, trapped in a vast wasteland of human desolation.

Mosu.Nedaug.1996.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 33mn
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https://nitro.download/view/BF86E7D4BCAE5C1/Mosu.Nedaug.1996.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):none
Subtitles:(none)

The post Sharunas Bartas – Musu nedaug AKA Few of Us (1996) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Dah from Benin and Jocelyn from the Caribbean, make money through illegal cockfighting. As Pierre, the owner of the restaurant where the fights take place, pushes them to make the events more violent, the disillusioned Jocelyn begins looking for a way out from the sordid dealings.

S'en.fout.la.mort.1990.576p.BDRip.DD2.0.x264-NEOLONE.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 32 min
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https://nitro.download/view/B03E03BEC9AB20F/S’en.fout.la.mort.1990.576p.BDRip.DD2.0.x264-NEOLONE.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Persian, Polish, Greek, Turkish

The post Claire Denis – S’en fout la mort AKA No Fear, No Die (1990) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Lionel has brought up his daughter, Josephine, on his own since his wife’s accidental death. Over the years, their life together has grown to resemble that of a couple. Josephine has now reached the age at which the roles begin to be inverted. She is now the one who seems to want to take care of her father. Lionel knows that he has one more thing to do: to convince Josephine to make her own way in the world, to become a woman and to leave him.

35.Shots.of.Rum.2008.BDRIP.4K.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 40 min
Size: 	2.62 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1024x552 
Aspect ratio:  	1.85:1
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
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#1:  	French 2.0ch FLAC @ 714 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/1190346215818ED/35.Shots.of.Rum.2008.BDRIP.4K.576p.x264.FLAC.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

The post Claire Denis – 35 rhums AKA 35 Shots of Rum (2008) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Cameroonian filmmaker Bassek ba Kobhio provides a fascinating revisionist perspective on Albert Schweitzer, Noble Peace Prize winner and secular saint of the colonial era.

Like Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, this film begins to rewrite the history of colonialism from the point of view of the colonized. Le Grand Blanc de Lambaréné is not, however, a facile exercise in iconoclasm but rather a deeply-felt lament for a missed opportunity, for a cross-cultural encounter between Africa and Europe which never happened.

Shot on the site of Schweitzer’s hospital in Gabon, Bassek ba Kobhio elicits psychologically complex portrayals from his actors as he did in his earlier California Newsreel release, Sango Malo. Behind Schweitzer’s impenetrable reserve, Ba Kobhio discovers a man blinded to the people around him by his own spiritual self-absorption and arrogance. For Schweitzer to see himself as a stern but loving father, he had to cast Africans as childlike primitives whom he could protect from the temptations of modernity. He even refused to install electrical generators or institute modern sanitation in his hospital’s wards. In the film, an African boy Schweitzer discouraged from becoming a doctor, returns with his degree and rebukes him: “The independence of the people has never been your concern. You only wanted to share their hell in the hope of reaching your heaven.”

The film reveals that the ultimate tragedy of colonialism may have been its refusal to see and value the colonized as autonomous, creative human beings. Schweitzer knew numerous European languages but never learned to speak the local tongue; he was an accomplished organist and Bach scholar who never evinced any interest in African music. Ba Kobhio represents the richness of Africa through Bissa, a beautiful concubine the local chief gives le Grand Blanc. Though clearly tempted, Schweitzer remains aloof; only at his death does he invite her to sleep in his bed rather than on a mat. The film’s epigraph, ironically, is a famous remark by Schweitzer himself: “All we can do is allow others to discover us, as we discover them.”

1.42GB | 1h 32min | 700×393 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/29258163C50DA85/The.Great.White.of.Lambarene.1995.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language:French
Subtitles:English hardsubbed

The post Bassek Ba Kobhio – Le grand blanc de Lambaréné AKA The Great White of Lambarene (1995) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

December 2012. After four months in captivity in Syria, two French reporters are released.
Gabriel, the younger one, is just shy of 30.
Following a day of interrogations and medical exams, Gabriel is allowed to see his loved ones: his father, his ex- girlfriend Naomi… His mother lives in India, where he grew up. She has cut ties with everyone.
A few weeks later, unable to find his bearings, Gabriel decides to leave for India. He moves into his childhood home in Goa, and meets Maya, a young Indian girl.

3.21GB | 1 h 46 min | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/455EB8CBF6A71AD/Maya.2018.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H264-CMYK.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/B34F9548AC47D67/Maya.2018.srt

Language:French, Some English
Subtitles:English,Spanish

The post Mia Hansen-Løve – Maya (2018) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The Limits of Control is the new movie from filmmaker Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers, Down by Law).
The film is set in the striking and varied landscapes of contemporary Spain (both urban and otherwise).
The location shoot there united the writer/director with acclaimed cinematographer Christopher Doyle
(In the Mood for Love, Paranoid Park).

Isaach De Bankolé stars in the lead role for Mr.
Jarmusch; this marks the duos fourth collaboration over nearly two decades, following Night on Earth,
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, and Coffee and Cigarettes.
The Limits of Control also features several other actors with whom Mr.
Jarmusch has previously worked, including Alex Descas, John Hurt, Youki Kudoh, Bill Murray, and Tilda Swinton;
and actors new to his films, including Hiam Abbass, Gael García Bernal,
Paz De La Huerta, Jean-François Stévenin, and Luis Tosar.

The Limits of Control is the story of a mysterious loner (played by Mr. De Bankolé),
a stranger, whose activities remain meticulously outside the law. He is in the process of completing a job,
yet he trusts no one, and his objectives are not initially divulged.

His journey, paradoxically both intently focused and dreamlike,
takes him not only across Spain but also through his own consciousness.









Behind Jim Jarmusch

Untitled Landscapes

http://www.nitroflare.com/view/A1171FCBA54A1A6/the.limits.of.control.2009-kg.avi
https://nitro.download/view/77EC3DE5FEC774E/The.Limits.of.Control.2009.Extras.Behind.Jim.Jarmusch-KG.avi
http://www.nitroflare.com/view/2A3C70DE9891F0A/The.Limits.of.Control.2009.Extras.Untitled.Landscapes-KG.avi
http://www.nitroflare.com/view/73F1157C9A2C592/the.limits.of.control.subs.rar

Language:English (also some Spanish, Hebrew, French, Japanese)
Subtitles: English (hardsubbed for non-English parts), English HoH, Spanish & French (idx/sub)

The post Jim Jarmusch – The Limits of Control [+Extras] (2009) first appeared on Cinema of the World.