2011-2020

  • Armand Rovira & Saida Benzal – Letters to Paul Morrissey (2018)

    Armand Rovira2011-2020DramaExperimentalSaida BenzalSpain
    Letters to Paul Morrissey (2018)
    Letters to Paul Morrissey (2018)

    Four celluloid letters sent from different parts of the globe to Paul Morrissey, director of Trash, Flesh and Heat, collaborator with Warhol and agent for the Velvet Underground.Read More »

  • Terence Davies – The Deep Blue Sea (2011)

    Terence Davies2011-2020DramaRomanceUSA
    The Deep Blue Sea (2011)
    The Deep Blue Sea (2011)

    Quote:
    With The Deep Blue Sea, Terence Davies selectively transforms a lesser-known Terence Rattigan play into a broody rumination on emotional freedom and frustrated desire. Davies abandons Rattigan’s linear narrative and compressed timeline in favor of a more free-form structure, one that underlines the ebb and flow of memory as it shuttles between past and present. At the same time, The Deep Blue Sea confirms Davies’s continued engagement with the period melodrama—in this case, the variety of “woman’s picture” exemplified by the doomed romanticism of David Lean’s Brief Encounter, a touchstone that The Deep Blue Sea on several occasions blatantly references. Set against the backdrop of post-WWII Britain, a dowdy period of rationing and reconstruction, The Deep Blue Sea hinges on the seemingly irresolvable predicament of its heroine, Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz). Trapped within the confines of a passionless marriage to older, well-to-do Sir William (Simon Russell Beale), Hester vainly seeks satisfaction in an ardent affair with young, impulsive Freddie Page (Tom Hiddleston). Absorbed in memories of his carefree pre-war days, Freddie ultimately cannot return Hester’s affection, and their relationship soon degenerates into noisy rows and mutual recriminations.Read More »

  • Qing Zhao – Please Remember Me (2015)

    2011-2020ChinaQing Zhao
    Please Remember Me (2015)
    Please Remember Me (2015)

    87-year-old Alzheimer’s patient Lou has forgotten everyone but her husband Feng, who has been her only caretaker for the past 10 years. Yet after a medical check-up, Feng was diagnosed with a pancreas mass. The man who went through a life of hardship in good spirits finally bursts into tears. Before going to the hospital, he takes her out shopping and makes her pretty. Does it mean their time of separation is coming near? Can they still live a life with dignity and freedom? On the way home, they walk hand in hand as Lou says, “We are together no matter what.”
    —Violet Du FengRead More »

  • Christian Weisenborn – Die Guten Feinde (2016)

    2011-2020Christian WeisenbornDocumentaryGermany
    Die Guten Feinde (2016)
    Die Guten Feinde (2016)

    An intimate quest by a son to understand the identity of his father; a look back at the Berlin of the 30s and a special group of friends who loved life and, in the darkest hours of German history, ultimately chose good over evil.Read More »

  • Måns Mårlind & Björn Stein – Eld & lågor AKA Swoon (2019)

    Måns Mårlind2011-2020Björn SteinRomanceSweden
    Eld & lågor (2019)
    Eld & lågor (2019)

    The plot consists of different course of events, feelings and colorful pictures in a staggering tale of war, rivalry, betrayal and forbidden love. A story that lies in events recounted by descendants of Ninni and John’s reality.Read More »

  • Florian Gallenberger – Grüner wird’s nicht, sagte der Gärtner und flog davon AKA As Green As It Gets (2018)

    2011-2020AdventureComedyFlorian GallenbergerGermany
    Grüner wird's nicht, sagte der Gärtner und flog davon (2018)
    Grüner wird’s nicht, sagte der Gärtner und flog davon (2018)

    Georg “Schorsch” Kempter is a gardener in a small Bavarian town. When the owner of the local golf course tries to cheat Schorsch for his money, he grabs the control stick and flies away in an attempt to save his plane and himself.Read More »

  • Naoyuki Tomomatsu – Kimi wa zonbi ni koishiteru AKA Bite Me If You Love Me (2011)

    Naoyuki Tomomatsu2011-2020ComedyHorrorJapan
    Kimi wa zonbi ni koishiteru (2011)
    Kimi wa zonbi ni koishiteru (2011)

    A schoolgirl with a zombie fetish manage with help from a nerd to translate a book from Italian that explains how to manufacture zombies.Read More »

  • Paolo Bertola – My Lai Four AKA Massacre at My Lai Four (2011)

    2011-2020DramaItalyPaolo BertolaWar
    My Lai Four (2011)
    My Lai Four (2011)

    The reenactment of the brutal massacre in Mi Lai a village in South Vietnam perpetrated by American Military forces on 16th of March 1968.Read More »

  • Igor Cobileanski – La limita de jos a cerului AKA The Unsaved (2013)

    Drama2011-2020Igor CobileanskiMoldova
    La limita de jos a cerului (2013)
    La limita de jos a cerului (2013)

    Synopsis
    The Unsaved is a drama about about a Sancho Panza and not a Don Quijote. It’s about the every day’s non-hero facing circumstances and not adventures, it’s about Viorel, a 25-year-old fledgling drug dealer, from a backwater little town in the contemporary Republic of Moldova. He lives at home with his mother, his ears get red when he’s nervous and he lets his days pass in the usual “laissez-faire” Moldavian style. He gets involved through his best friend, Goose, in small-time drug dealing, while helping him to fly a hang glider that never seems to work properly; and he falls in love with Maria, the girl who happens to cut his hair. This easy-going existentialism precipitates several possibilities, which find our hero trapped in his own indecisiveness, so finally he reckons the moment has come for him to start growing up and act like an adult. Read More »

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