A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.Read More »
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Le point de départ du film est une entrevue inédite de Godard en juin 68, où il exprime ses idées et sa démarche cinématographique révolutionnaires. Il prône ainsi le gaspillage de la pellicule et la résistance au cinéma commercial. “Le Vivarium” pose la question: que deviennent les acteurs d’un film si on leur supprime leur texte ou le scénario?Read More »
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The evolution of life, from the drop of water where hundreds of microscopic animals live to that of the great primates. Essential behaviors (feeding and reproducing) are innate, automatic, and never show any variation. The struggle for life and interspecies aggressiveness are found in all animals, with significant differences. The ancestors of the great primates learned to anticipate the outcome of their actions and to assess the risks they needed to take in order to survive…Read More »
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The evolution of life, from the drop of water where hundreds of microscopic animals live to that of the great primates. Essential behaviors (feeding and reproducing) are innate, automatic, and never show any variation. The struggle for life and interspecies aggressiveness are found in all animals, with significant differences. The ancestors of the great primates learned to anticipate the outcome of their actions and to assess the risks they needed to take in order to survive…Read More »
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An adaptation of the novel by French writer Frédérick Tristan. The work is structurally similar to the famous “The Saragossa Manuscript”. It is an oneiric tale of a teenage Balthazar who, escaping the Inquisition, travels to Jerusalem accompanied by companions from the earthly and otherworldly worlds.Read More »
A young tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal.Read More »
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Four voices attempt to reconstruct the story of the Vice-Consul of Lahore and Anne-Marie Stretter. The soundtrack is that of India Song while the images take the viewer through the empty rooms and the garden of a ruined palace.Read More »
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The same voyeuristic story, told by two different men: first by Michaël Lonsdale, in a « fiction » version, then by Jean-Noël Picq, in a « document » version. The way the film was shot is worth mentioning: Eustache first got his friend Jean Noël-Picq to sit down with a group of people (including The Mother and the Whore’s Françoise Lebrun) and recount a strange episode in his life: how in the men’s room of a local restaurant, he found a hole in the wall and peered through, finding that he had a perfect view of the ladies’ room. He became a regular patron, and his daily dose of scopophilia turned into an addiction until one day, with some relief, he found that the hole had been plastered over. Then Eustache “remade” his own film in a scripted, 35 mm version, with the critic Jean Douchet as the “director” and Michel Lonsdale in the Picq role. One of the cinema’s great curiosities, A Dirty Story exerts a mysterious – and often uncomfortably voyeuristic – fascination.Read More »
A satire about the French small businessman: A naive, middle-aged and paternal managing director (Mondy), subject to takeover by a wily American conglomerate, becomes besotted with Darc, supposedly the PR man’s niece but actually a callgirl hired as an inducement for the night.Read More »