1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, shows him that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection.

Queer.2024.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.Atmos.H.264-FLUX.mkv

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Language(s):English, Spanish, French
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Biography of British painter Francis Bacon focuses on his relationship with his lover, George Dyer, a former small time crook.

Adrian Searle:
Love Is the Devil is a devilish brew of naturalism, Baconesque film effects, history and gossip. It is a warped anthropological detour into the fag end of 1950s Soho bohemia, dragged too far into the 1960s but it is also a tragic love story, with astonishing performances and character cameos. It was always bound to be trouble, and was inevitably going to get into trouble, even before filming began.

Everyone likes a bit of rough – the frisson of danger and perversion. It is a cliche of how artists are supposed to behave. Bacon fitted the bill perfectly. He was by all accounts a deeply complex man. He was also, not to be forgotten, highly intelligent, profoundly manipulative, contrary, slippery and a superb performer. He invented not just a style (Bacon was self-taught), but a personality, as both an artist and a man. He also looked good, a kind of bruiser intellectual who brushed his teeth with Vim, dyed his hair with boot polish and went about wearing women’s undies.

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Language(s):English, French
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“As a writer of brilliant comedies, where satire tosses and turns under sheets of exquisitely embroidered farce, Michael Frayn’s biggest hit came with the hysterical “play within a play” fiasco Noises Off. Film work such as the John Cleese comedy Clockwise and the touching TV play First and Last have showed off Frayn as a fine observer of people. But in Copenhagen he turns to history, and a moral conundrum so trenchant that at points it overtakes the carefully reconstructed plot in the viewer’s mind. For every visual image there is an imaginary imp hovering behind it asking us to see a wider picture.

The play remembers a meeting that took place in 1941 between two physicists, the Danish Niels Bohr and German Werner Heisenberg. As friends they had collaborated on crucial work that led to the atomic bomb, but World War II placed them on opposite sides. Heisenberg arranges a mysterious trip to see Bohr and his wife. The meeting that follows, rich in splendid dialogue and fine acting, tests our feelings on both the moral responsibilities of the scientist, and the link between a man in wartime and the country he unavoidably represents when in an alien land.

Bohr’s Denmark is a small, occupied state. Heisenberg’s Germany is a massive world power certain of victory in a war zone not yet tipped in the balance by America’s intervention. The two main protagonists have the weights of their own worlds on their shoulders, and in casting Stephen Rea, Daniel Craig and Francesca Annis, three careful and magnetic performers, this edgy production is in safe hands. The simple direction pleases too; the opening shots especially evoke a cold, doomy land, while the lucid, erudite language paints in the vivid colours between the greys.

As a stage play Copenhagen evoked a remarkable sense of place and time. On television we have the luxury of seeing the world the play inhabits first hand. But this in no way blunts the impact. For every visual image there is an imaginary imp hovering behind it asking us to see a wider picture. There lies Frayn’s triumph, and the secret of the play’s ability to haunt the mind long after it’s finished.”

Copenhagen (Howard Davies 2002).mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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