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The Ruhr, a present heavy with anger: the issue of resistance, of fighting against fascism, of the workers’ movement. There is also the question of the overwhelming rage that can surge up when faced with the reality of defeats, with no consolation or reconciliation. (-cinemadureel.org)Read More »
Viktoria, a strong willed woman in her 60’s, struggles to hold onto her dairy farm Iceland, which has been in her family for generations as things gradually fall apart.Read More »
Sin of God was made as a studio exercise by the world-famous Polish-born director Agnieszka Holland (born 1948) during her studies at FAMU in Prague. The plot is based on Isaac Babel’s short story The Sin of Jesus. – A young maid Arina (Jaroslava Pokorná) has a love affair with a peddler Serega. She is even pregnant with him for the second time. She doesn’t take care of the twins from her first pregnancy, she gave them to a foundling. Her lover, however, has to enlist. The inexperienced mother does not know how to fulfil her sexual and emotional desires during Serega’s absence. So she consults God. He sends her an angel, Alfred, with whom she cannot conceive. But this is not the end of the woman’s troubles, rather the beginning.Read More »
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A factory worker in a dark, gray world assembles devices that promise happiness. In his spare time he tinkers to create something better, and finally succeeds in perfecting his invention, which allows people to see life through rose-colored glasses. But he has to pay a price for his success.Read More »
23 year-old Zoë ought to be wild and free but she’s already got four kids. WASP takes place on a day when Zoë is broke and her kids are hungry. When Dave, an old flame, swings by with the offer of brief release she lies about being a mum and leaves her kids outside the pub. Nearby, late summer wasps are hunting for food around an old rubbish bin.
Wasp was Andrea Arnold’s third short, which won over 30 international festival awards and the Oscar for Best Short Film in 2005. Her first feature film, Red Road, premiered in competition at Cannes winning the Jury Prize in 2006.Read More »
With the soberly lyrical and infinitely gracious Les Îles (Islands), Yann Gonzalez gives his personal version of La Ronde by Max Ophüls. The endless circularity in the mechanisms of desire are conveyed in joyful sequencing from the actors to the spectators. Instead of desire, the need for the theatre, maliciously revealed with the forces of cinema (the opening game of the frame scale) and the pleasures of the eye (the direct elation), of the ear (the deferred elation, with the sound recording). At the crossroads of the two given entities (the theatre stage and the frame of a shot), which are the body of this beautiful erotic poem, the islands bear wings.Read More »
La sconfitta, 1973, 23min
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Lost hopes of a young leftist.
Paté de Bourgeois, 1973, 26min
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About politics, television and ads in Italy.
Come parli, fraté?, 1974, 52min
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Satiric version of the italia novel Promessi Sposi by Alessandro Manzoni.
This is really really rare material. Enjoy.Read More »
A lifetime of suburbia in a half hour, Springtime in Greenland uses 50’s cinematic conventions and attitudes to tell a story about the sophomoric inhabitants of a fictional utopia. Meet Nick, a young Adonis played by Paizs. He is silent, aloof and straining against his suburban values. Nick wears a gloomy cloud despite the sunny spring weather.Read More »
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A man possessed by a Hauka spirit stoops and breaks an egg over the sculpted figure of the governor . . . that presides over the day’s event of Hauka possession. Cracked on the governor’s head, the egg cascades in white and yellow rivulets. Then the film is abruptly cut. We are transported to a big military parade in the colonial city two hours away. The film hurls us at the cascading yellow and white plumes of the white governor’s gorgeous hat as he reviews the black troops passing. . . .Read More »