A young model returns to the Georgian countryside, where a confrontation with her past offers hope for the future.Read More »
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Juja Dobrachkous – Bebia, à mon seul désir AKA Bebia, My Only Desire (2021)
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Dominique Delouche – L’homme de désir (1970)
1961-1970ArthouseDominique DeloucheDramaFranceQueer Cinema(s)Étienne, a married writer, gives a lift to a young hitchhiker called Rudy who is mixed up with a gang of thugs. Étienne takes a liking to Rudy and brings him home, where a strong homoerotic attraction soon develops between them. Étienne also tries to extricate Rudy from his dangerous life in the streets, and seems ready to go to any lengths to achieve this goal.Read More »
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Lucile Hadzihalilovic – Earwig (2021) (HD)
2021-2030ArthouseHorrorLucile HadzihalilovicUnited KingdomA 50-year-old caretaker is employed to look after 10-year-old girl. His most important task is to maintain her dentures that are made of ice and must be changed several times a day.Read More »
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Binka Zhelyazkova – Baseynat AKA The Swimming Pool (1977)
1971-1980ArthouseBinka ZhelyazkovaBulgariaDramaThe story begins with a serious disillusionment experienced by a young girl at her school-leaving farewell ball.
Apostol, an architect on this side of forty, meets by chance Bella at a swimming pool on the night of her graduation party.Winner: Silver Prize – Moscow International Film Festival’1977Read More »
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Shu Shuen Tong – Dong fu ren AKA The Arch (1968)
1961-1970ArthouseDramaHong KongShu Shuen TongA woman falls in love with a visiting cavalry captain, but chooses to suppress it for the sake of her daughter.Read More »
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Alain Resnais – Mélo (1986)
1981-1990Alain ResnaisArthouseDramaFranceIn Paris in the 1920s, a concert violinist meets and falls in love with a stylish young flapper who’s the wife of an old friend. Romaine instigates the affair with Marcel, and carries it forward even as her husband, Pierre, falls ill. She may even be purposely giving Pierre a treatment that adds to his misery. After Marcel returns from a concert tour and Romaine stoops to a new low in abandoning Pierre for an assignation, she reconsiders the affair and takes a drastic step. Three years later, Pierre pays Marcel a visit to demand the truth. Will the jealous and aggrieved Marcel manage a convincing performance?Read More »
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Gaspar Noé – Vortex (2021)
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Masashi Yamamoto – Robinson no niwa AKA Robinson’s Garden (1987)
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Exploring the outer edges of modern-day Tokyo, a girl becomes enraptured by an expanse of ruins teeming with plant life. She ventures deep into the beautiful wilderness and becomes isolated from the real world, but overwhelmed with the beauty surrounding her. Imaginative Japanese variation on “The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe”.Read More » -
Dominik Graf – Dreileben – Komm mir nicht nach AKA Don’t Follow Me Around (2011)
2011-2020ArthouseDominik GrafDramaGermanyIn the trilogy’s second chapter, Jo (Jeanette Hain), a big-city police psychologist, arrives in Dreileben to aid in the ongoing investigation, whereupon she finds herself greeted cooly by the local authorities but welcomed with open arms by Vera (Susanne Wolff), a college friend who lives nearby with her husband, a pretentious author. As the girlfriends reminisce about bygone days and discover they were both once in love with the same man, director Dominik Graf deftly juxtaposes their personal drama against the search for a killer, a police corruption scandal, and a possible case of interspecies transmutation—all underlining the trilogy’s recurring themes of false appearances and deeply hidden truths.Read More »