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In the Pacific Northwest in 1955, two young sisters, abandoned by their mother, wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don’t quite live up to most people’s expectations.

	
Housekeeping (1987)_1080p.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 56mn
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https://nitro.download/view/B6BCB761FAD7831/Housekeeping_(1987)_1080p.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:English + Commentary

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The film portrays the experience of a single human soul, portrayed by Williams, through various incarnations. Williams is the only common actor throughout the stories that span man’s history on Earth.[2]

An attempt on director-screenwriter Bill Forsyth’s part to depict by visual means the ordinariness of life throughout the ages, Being Human is deliberately slow in its pace in order to emphasize how slow life often is. The structure is one of vignette-like character studies of one man (actually at least four distinct men, all with the same soul) who keeps making the same relationships and mistakes throughout his lifetimes.

In the first incarnation, which appears to be an ancient Celt, a man’s family is taken from him by raiders due to his cowardice and hesitation. Before his wife is taken away, she says, “Don’t lose the children!”

The next incarnation is in Ancient Rome in which he, Hector, is a slave to a “foolish master” who loses his fortune and is compelled to commit suicide by his debtors and orders Hector to join him. Hector longed to be free to find the children and wife he had before he became a slave, but he has fallen in love with another slave and forgets his waiting family.
Third incarnation: He is a Scottish crusader on his way home to his children. The master from his life in Rome as a slave is now a crusader trying to decide to be a priest or not. They travel together until Hector finds his soul mate from the life in Rome. She is a widow and wishes Hector to join her family but his duties to the children in Scotland pull at him.

Fourth incarnation: Hector is finally forced to confront his capacity for cowardly indecision. He is a Portuguese man in the renaissance shipwrecked on the coast of Africa. He is the master in this life, his wife from the first incarnation shipwrecked with him as his spurned lover, and the raider who spirited her away is her steadfast friend.

Fifth incarnation: He is a modern man in New York, paying the consequences of cowardly indecision and gaining the strength to address the children he lost lifetimes ago. He is joined in this life by his master/slave/friend/soul mate, and former wife/lover and her husband/raider from life times past. They support him but are people who are trying to find their own way, just as in the past lives.

Being.Human.1994.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Runtime: 	2h 1mn
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https://nitro.download/view/E0A35DC8D52BAC8/Being.Human.1994.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

The post Bill Forsyth – Being Human (1994) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Bill Forsyth put Scottish cinema on the map with this delightfully eccentric culture-clash comedy. Riffing on popular representations of Scottish life and folklore, Local Hero follows the Texas oil executive Mac (Peter Riegert), who is dispatched by his crackpot boss (Burt Lancaster) to a remote seaside village in Scotland with orders to buy out the town and develop the region for an oil refinery. But as business mixes with pleasure, Mac finds himself enchanted by both the picturesque community and its oddball denizens—and Texas starts to feel awfully far away. Packed with a near nonstop stream of droll one-liners and deadpan gags, this enchanting cult hit finds Forsyth surveying the idiosyncrasies of small-town life with the satirical verve of a latter-day Preston Sturges, arriving at a sly commentary on conservation, corporate greed, and the legacies we leave behind.

2.81GB | 1 h 51 min | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/00F1E085F172834/Bill_Forsyth_-_(1983)_Local_Hero.mkv

Language(s):English, Russian, Japanese
Subtitles:English

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