Steve Jacobs

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Lola, a hot-blooded Spaniard, is deserted by her husband for a cool and calculating Aussie blonde. Lola is pregnant again but she and their daughter Lucia are left to starve while Ricardo spends all their savings on a sleek new set of wheels for his mistress. When he dies unexpectedly the family fortune, one flash car, remains with the mistress. Despite all his betrayals, Lucia sides with her father. Desperate and destitute in a country she doesn’t like or understand, Lola’s quest for revenge begins. Caught in the tempests of begrudging love, revenge, sibling rivalry, jealousy and passion, fourteen year old Lucia must find the strength to survive on her own terms. Aided to break free of her mother by her eccentric Aunt Manolo she struggles to find her own identity and her own quest for justice puts her on a collision course with her mother.Read More »

Murder, madness and delirious sexual jealousy in Papua New Guinea. The Proposition director John Hillcoat’s lost 1996 psychodrama, featuring a soundtrack by Nick Cave and Scott Walker

Synopsis
“Jack (Karyo) is a Parisian living in Papua New Guinea, where he runs a ramshackle outdoor cinema. Two years ago his wife Rose (Finsterer) died in mysterious circumstances. Now he’s self-medicated with booze and dope and obsessed with the memory of his wife, whose flickering, drunken image he revisits nightly on the TV screens in his rickety editing suite.Read More »