When Pontus, a poor writer, enters city life, he finds himself in a struggle. He spends his time selling what he can and looking for work. However, as he searches for food, his pangs eat at his sanity. Hesitant to admit his own poverty, Pontus drifts through the town, indigent and lonely, as the film captures his certain peril.Read More »
A young woman just about to be married disappears somewhere between the hair salon and the church.
The sleepy summer town is all abuzz with the news – the whats, the whys and the whoms.
A visiting police detective is put in charge of the investigation.
Soon the truth starts creeping out from the murky corners of countryside town life.Read More »
A lonely night watchman at a department store develops a fixation on one of the store’s mannequins. He soon steals her and brings her to his home, where he can be with her all the time. One day, she comes to life…Read More »
Doctor Glas face ethical complications when a woman, Helga Gregorius, asks for help in preventing her husband, the disgusting Reverend Gregorius, to have sex with her.Read More »
Synopsis:
‘Teresa and Pedro have been married for five years and are settled in a routine, and a rather sterile home. He manages – and possibly owns – a factory, while she is a lady of leisure. The arrival of a collection of furniture from Teresa’s childhood family home triggers a nightmare and subsequent sleepwalking, followed by regressive and childish behaviour. Teresa replaces their furniture (in keeping with the modern – verging on Brutalist – architecture of their house) with what has arrived, which is distinctly different in style (dark wood and richly coloured fabrics). The film then settles into a series of extended role play ‘games’ between husband and wife that gradually get out of hand.’
– Rebecca NaughtenRead More »
TV production of August Strindberg’s great novel ‘Inferno’ purportedly depicting his own mental disintegration.
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The narrator (ostensibly Strindberg, although his narrative variably coheres with and diverges from historical truth), spends most of the novel in Paris, isolated from his wife (Frida Uhl), children, and friends. He associates with a circle of Parisian artists and writers (including Paul Gauguin and Edvard Munch), but often fears they are ridiculing and persecuting him. In his isolation, Strindberg successfully attempts alchemical experiments, and has his work published in prominent journals. He fears, however, that his secrets will be stolen, and his persecution mania worsens, believing that his enemies are attacking him with ‘infernal machines.’ He also dabbles in the occult, at one point casting a black magic spell on his own distanced daughter.Read More »
TRAUMSTADT concerns a remote town where people from all over can indulge in their wildest dreams. Per Oscarsson and Rosemarie Fendel play an unhappy couple who hope that a trip to this magic town will patch up their relationship. Instead, they find themselves fighting for their lives when several of the wackier fantasies get out of hand. Based on Albert Kubin’s novel The Other Side.Read More »
Marilyn Jordan (Susan Anspach) is a bored, depressed American housewife, married to a rich Swedish businessman with two seemingly perfect children. She tries to “spice up” her existence by surprising the family when she eats their entire dinner, setting the bedclothes on fire and poisoning the pet dog’s milk and then advising it not to drink (the dog does not drink). Eventually Martin, Marilyn’s husband, decides to show her to a psychiatrist, but that only serves to further her frustration.Read More »