Bright, intelligent, passionate and free, Eleanor is Karl Marx’s youngest daughter. Among the first women to link the themes of feminism and socialism, she takes part in the workers’ battles and fights for women’s rights and the abolition of child labor. In 1883 she meets Edward Aveling and her life is crushed by a passionate but tragic love story.

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:Portuguese

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The last year of singer Nico’s life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons.
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Everyone involved in the creation of ‘Nico, 1988′ deserves a huge amount of praise and respect for creating a film so unflinchingly honest, so authentic. Nico, eternally dressed up in others’ wardrobes, in others’ colours and artistic mirages, has finally been depicted on screen for who she really was, and because Christa Paffgen was infinitely more fascinating than ‘Nico’ (‘Don’t call me Nico, call me by my real name’, she says early in the film to her new Mancunian manager, revealing the agenda of the filmmaking), ‘Nico, 1988’ is truly captivating.

‘Nico, 1988’ isn’t a film for Velvet Underground fans (although I am most definitely one of those, especially the first two albums), and it isn’t a film for anyone who believes Nico was a charming soft rock folk star after her VU years (songs written by others, yet more attempts by men to ‘create’ their warmer, sexier version of the Germanic, marketable beauty of Nico); not unlike her own music, this a film that is almost for no one, namely her passionate yet miniscule fan base (‘No One Is There’). As Paffen says in the film, ‘I’m selective about my audience’. That some people appear not to be able to understand this film or come to it with the wrong expectations seems in a strange way perfectly fitting. Nico is still ahead of her time, thirty years after her death.

Nico was one of the most interesting human beings of the twentieth century, which was probably the most fascinating, most cruel, most bizarre and most eventful century in human existence, and she seemed to experience most of what those years had to offer. Despite that, despite the myriad of famous people she dated, had children with and took heroin and LSD with (those looking for ‘that’ Nico are looking for the wrong Nico), depicting her on screen was never going to be easy, and as a massive fan of Nico’s art I was going to be one of the hardest viewers to win over (I even bought a harmonium directly because I adored her music and songwriting, so casual fan I am not).

Not only did the film’s authenticity suspend my disbelief, I was entirely convinced that Trine Dyrholm actually was Nico. In a better world, surely her performance would win an Oscar, but alas, too few people even know Nico’s reality, know her mannerisms, know her booming funereal, avant-garde music that sounded hundreds of years old yet at the same time cutting-edge and far more intellectually advanced than her peers’ guitar-based conventionality to truly appreciate how brilliant her homage to Paffgen is. She shows us the real Nico, the blunt, honest, temperamental, paranoid, bitter, at times disarmingly sweet, funny, suffering Nico, the Nico who was unable to be a good mother despite how much she loved her son. Nico, the completely unpretentious heroin abuser who was used up and spat out from the most pretentious of worlds: modelling, art and music, worlds people endlessly wanted to talk to her about with wide, hungry eyes. Nico seemed to live the life of a hundred people, to have experienced everything, yet she appeared to be the most lonely, broken and misunderstood of people, fuelled by a furious black flame of talent and a brutal honesty that most people could never come close to relating to.

Naturally, Nico was extremely wary of people, especially her own fans or anyone who revered her, and her on stage performances could be more like sneering attacks on the Lou Reed-wannabe poseurs in attendance. ‘Nico, 1988’s most thrilling and important scene is when an initially sceptical and heroin-craving Nico performs ‘My Heart Is Empty’ in Communist Czechoslovakia at an underground illegal gig for a small hardcore crowd. The fevered Nico seems to tap into the forbiddenness of the event, the authenticity, the risk, these are her people for once, this is real, she seems to be enjoying herself for the first time in the film. But like everything in Nico’s existence it is a fleeting happiness, as the police raid the event and the band is forced to get into a packed car and flee the country before they end up in prison.

Nico’s music was the sound of defeat, it was the sound she heard as a child that never left her, that continued to ring in her ears and haunt her for her entire life, the sound of bombs dropping on Berlin at the end of World War 2. As one world ended another was created, a new Europe, an apparent new hope for the western world, with liberation for women, for minorities, an exciting new playground of sexuality and hedonism to explore. Nico lived long enough to experience the emptiness of humanity both as the sound of bombs fell and as the sound of raucous New York Warhol parties went on into the night, and as the sad song says, ‘Is That All There Is?’ To Nico, both the sound of the bottom and the sound of the top were ghostly, transitory illusions, neither as real nor as powerful as her booming harmonium and harsh Germanic accent that still unnerves and inspires in 2018.

Hopefully this film encourages more people to listen to the real Nico and give her music a chance, for the difficult, scary and suffocatingly intense beauty of Nico’s individuality deserves never to be forgotten, especially in a world that becomes more plastic, disposable and artistically barren by the year. – by sunheadbowed, imdb.com

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Subtitles:Spanish

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Sequel to Walter (1982).

Walter (Ian McKellen) is a mentally disabled man who depends on his parents for his survival. So when his mother and father die, Walter’s future is thrown into question. With nowhere to go, Walter is put into a poorly run state mental institution. In these new, harsh surroundings, Walter befriends a schizophrenic woman named June (Sarah Miles). As their bond grows, the pair’s affection turns to romance — and soon they plot their escape from the hospital, hoping to begin a new life in London.

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Scottish playwright John Byrne’s follow-up to the great Tutti Frutti of 1987, was another distinctive, music-themed series. But, whereas Tutti Frutti was about rock ‘n’ roll, 1990’s Your Cheatin’ Heart revolved around the country music and rockabilly scene. The tale contains all the traditional ingredients of the archetypal Western: a defiant woman alone with her husband in gaol, a guileless stranger who finds the courage enough to help save the day, murders, and a series of down and dirty bad men. There’s just one thing…it’s set in modern day Glasgow. But don’t forget it was Celtic music played by the Scottish and Irish immigrants in the frontier towns of the new world that helped shape American country music.

Byrne’s then thirty year old wife, the divine Tilda Swinton plays our heroine Cissie Crouch, waitress at The Bar L; Glasgow’s American themed piano bar whose name and staff uniforms tips their hats to that other Bar L in the city – Barlinnie Prison. That’s where her husband, a country and western star currently resides for a crime he claims not to have committed. Whilst pining for him, she crosses paths with John Gordon Sinclair’s down at heel restaurant critic Frank McClusky (aka Rab Haw) and it isn’t long before this outsider is swept up in Cissie’s world of country music and the crimes her husband is tangled up with.

Your Cheatin’ Heart may not be as tight as Tutti Frutti, but once again Byrne’s wholly cohesive creative vision is on dazzling form all the way across from the script to the screen. It looks genuinely wonderful with its mix of impressive quiffs, duster coats, wing-tips, double denim and cowboy boots – and that’s often just the women! A great eclectic cast only adds to the enjoyment as Ken Stott, Katy Murphy, Eddi Reader (then famous for being the lead singer in Fairground Attraction), Guy Mitchell, Helen Atkinson Wood, Maggie Bell, and Tom Watson playing several characters including the ‘dozy half-breed’ Cherokee George and even an old woman out walking her dog, all feature and are eminently watchable. There’s even smaller roles for a young Peter Mullan as heavy Tonto, and Skids frontman Richard Jobson, who proves he was right to seek a secondary career behind, rather than in front of, the camera!

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Language(s):English
Subtitles:English

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