Drama

  • Erdem Tepegoz – Zerre (2012)

    2001-2010DramaErdem TepegozTurkey

    Plot:
    How much space does Zeynep take up in this vast universe? This is a city brimming with the struggling and the unemployed; aren?t their lives a bit like the infinite, tiny particles flying through the air? Zeynep is already trying hard to make ends meet when she gets fired from her job at a textile mill. The Particle follows her as she searches for a job. We follow her in and out of workspaces. Zeynep?s world ? the streets and homes in Tarlabaşı ? are dark and suffocating. In The Particle, the prison-like feeling of the opening sequence never recedes; we relentlessly feel the dead ends of the city, a dystopia. A sober salutation to the working class, this is a very adept feature film from a director who has obviously spent a lot of time with documentary.Read More »

  • Jacques Audiard – De rouille et d’os AKA Rust & Bone (2012)

    2011-2020DramaFranceJacques Audiard

    Quote:
    Based on Craig Davidson’s short story collection of the same name, Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone (De rouille et d’os, 2012) is a tender, yet visceral piece about the nature of being human. Starring Marion Cotillard as young amputee Stéphanie, and Matthias Schoenaerts as troubled single father Ali, Audiard’s latest may boast incredibly moving performances, but never quite grants us the ability to truly get under the main protagonists’ skin. After returning orca trainer Stéphanie home following a nightclub brawl, burly bouncer Ali finds himself once again aiding the woman – four months after she suffers a terrible accident.Read More »

  • William Olsson – Förtroligheten AKA Reliance (2013)

    2011-2020DramaSwedenWilliam Olsson

    As a mysterious ‘shadow’ harasses a teenage girl in the middle of the night in a wealthy neighborhood in Goteborg, Sweden; the idyllic streets are beginning to look more like a prison than a place of self-fulfillment. Meanwhile, Paul – deep in a midlife crises – is trying to get closer to his estranged teenage daughter Selinda, who is struggling to form her own identity. ‘Reliance’ is the love story between a father and a daughter. A drama about the pain of letting go. But first and foremost an existential journey of how we all deal with dreams, fears and aspirations.Read More »

  • James Bolton – Eban and Charley (2000)

    1991-2000DramaJames BoltonQueer Cinema(s)United Kingdom

    After his parents get divorced, and he loses his beloved mother to a drunk driver, 15-year-old Charley goes to live in a lonely seaside town with his overly strict, military-man father. During one grim Christmas break, he finds comfort in the companionship of 29-year-old Eban, a schoolteacher home visiting his folks.Read More »

  • Staffan Hildebrand – Stockholmsnatt (1987)

    1981-1990CrimeDramaStaffan HildebrandSweden

    Stockholmsnatt’ is a cult film from 1987, which depicts the life of 17 year-old bad boy and figher Paolo Roberto. The movie deals with youth violence, rival gangs och peer pressure, but also family relationships och love. The story is based on Paolo’s own experiences fron the street and real incidents he’s been involved in.Read More »

  • Albert Finney – Charlie Bubbles (1967)

    1961-1970Albert FinneyDramaUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    “Charlie Bubbles, a writer, up from the working class of Manchester, England, who, in the course of becoming prematurely rich and famous, has mislaid a writer’s basic tool – the capacity to feel and to respond. Now he must visit his estranged wife and son, whom he has set up on a farm outside his native city. His journey accidentally becomes an attempt to reestablish his connections with life, people, and his own history.”
    – alfiehitchie (IMDb)Read More »

  • Mario Monicelli – Caro Michele (1976)

    1971-1980DramaItalyMario Monicelli

    Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara (Mariangela Melato), the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives. (allmovie)Read More »

  • Dick Clement – A Severed Head (1970)

    1961-1970Dick ClementDramaUnited Kingdom

    Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want to deal with the situation in a civilized way, by remaining friends with Martin. Meanwhile Martin tries to keep his mistress, Georgie Hands, a secret, but Palmer’s sister, Honor Klein, who taught Georgie at Oxford, tells Palmer and Antonia about her. Furthermore, Honor introduces Georgie to Martin’s womanizing brother, Alexander. This is just the beginning of the various liaisons.Read More »

  • Aleksandr Rogozhkin – Karaul (1990)

    1981-1990Aleksandr RogozhkinDramaUSSR

    Synopsis (courtesy of the two IMDB comments):
    Very cinematic Russian tale of alienation and lost identity
    I saw this film on a local government television station in Australia called SBS which played it at midnight. There’s something very beautiful about this film which despite being set amidst the cold, harsh landscape of a desolate Russian territory it features the vitally honest, wan, lost eyes of the lead actor (whose name I can’t recall regrettably) whose vivid sense of alienation was extremely memorable. Its a B&W film about a military guard who finds himself lost amidst his fellow guards’ corruption and his own painful sense of duty versus his sense of goodness. Read More »

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