Helena Vesey loves her son with a passion verging on the demonic. When he announces his engagement to Angela, it’s clear that she’s not losing a son, only her sanity. She’s soon dusting off her books on lethal poisons and begins a ruthless killing spree, elegantly disposing of anyone she sees as opposition.

Mother Love received strong reviews in the UK where Diana Rigg won a Bafta for her lead performance. However, most missed the fact that this is a black comedy, and although Rigg is superb as the woman scorned, her performance brings to mind the wicked stepmother in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. There’s a macabre sense of fun about her adventures which echoes dark classics such as Kind Hearts and Coronets, and the relish with which she strikes down her enemies makes her a compelling, larger than life character.

Andrew Davies’s screenplay is based on a novel by Domini Taylor, but he injects more wit into the proceedings and streamlines the action.

Mother Love zips along with pace and panache, strengthened by an effective cast, several neat twists and some memorable one-liners are darkly enjoyable.

Mother Love.S01E01.mkv

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

The post Simon Langton – Mother Love [Two-part version] (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A Western couple (played by Melissa Leo and James Wilby) working in Pakistan visit an unconventional holy shrine to harness its spiritual powers to help them conceive a child. They are lavished with the attentions of the shrine’s leader (an exceptional performance from Zia Mohyeddin – Lawrence of Arabia, Khartoum) and her followers, but their methods and motives are not all that they seem, and the couple’s lives are plunged into darkness.

This ravishing, unsettling film from director Jamil Dehlavi (The Blood of Hussain, Born of Fire) is a deeply personal work which raises questions of cultural and sexual identity, religious fanaticism and the abuses of power. The brand-new 2K restoration from the original negative was supervised and approved by Dehlavi and cinematographer Nic Knowland.

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Language(s):English, Urdu
Subtitles:English (for Urdu)

The post Jamil Dehlavi – Immaculate Conception (1992) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Lady Chatterley is a 1993 BBC television serial starring Sean Bean and Joely Richardson. It is an adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover, first broadcast on BBC1 in four 55-minute episodes between 6 and 27 June 1993. A young woman’s husband returns wounded after the First World War. Facing a life with a husband now incapable of sexual activity she begins an affair with the groundskeeper. The film reflect’s Lawrence’s focus not only on casting away sexual taboos but also the examination of the class system prevalent in early 20th century Britain.

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:Danish,Swedish,Norwegian,Finnish (vobsub)

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Set against the stifling conformity of pre-World War I English society, E.M. Forster’s Maurice is a story of coming to terms with one’s sexuality and identity in the face of disapproval and misunderstanding. Maurice Hall (James Wilby) and Clive Durham (Hugh Grant) find themselves falling in love at Cambridge. In a time when homosexuality is punishable by imprisonment, the two must keep their feelings for one another a complete secret. After a friend is arrested and disgraced for “the unspeakable vice of the Greeks,” Clive abandons his forbidden love and marries a young woman. Maurice, however, struggles with his identity and self-confidence, seeking the help of a hypnotist to rid himself of his undeniable urges. But while staying with Clive and his shallow wife, Anne, Maurice is seduced by the affectionate and yearning servant Alec Scudder (Rupert Graves), an event that brings about profound changes in Maurice’s life and outlook.

3.76GB | 2 h 20 min | 960×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/2DDA1460A485F37/James_Ivory_-_(1987)_Maurice.mkv

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Subtitles:English

The post James Ivory – Maurice (1987) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Immaculate Conception is the story of a young western couple, Jewish-American Hannah and British Alistair who are living in Karachi and desperate for a child. They visit the eunuch shrine of Gulab Shah which has a reputation for curing infertility and, sure enough, Hannah conceives. Hannah decides to convert to Islam and coaxes Alistair to do the same.

This causes a conflict with her family, while steering Alistair into a brief love affair. Meanwhile, the eunuchs from the shrine seem to think they have a share in Hannah’s baby. As tension mounts, the dangerous cocktail of clashing cultures and religious beliefs threatens to explode in the faces of everyone involved.

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https://nitro.download/view/6BC2E9EDD2AB7CF/Immaculate_Conception.mkv

Language(s):English
Subtitles:none

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