People are strange – even for a sloth walking around the city.)
Archives: Filmes
A bee allergic to honey.
Ted, a stuffy white guy from Illinois working in sales for the Barcelona office of a US corporation, is paid an unexpected visit by his somewhat less stuffy cousin Fred, who is an officer in the US Navy. Over the next few months, both their lives are irrevocably altered by the events which follow Fred’s arrival, events which are the trivial stuff of a comedy of manners at first but which gradually grow increasingly dramatic.)
Tunisia, summer 2010, few months before the Revolution. A young woman fights for her dreams against her parents’ wishes and tries to have an active role in the country’s future through her music.
Documentary filmmaker and Jean Rouch collaborator Philippe Costantini goes inside the House of Santo António to film a “House of Mothers”: a social institution destined for young single mothers to raise their children and hope for a second chance in their troubled lives.)
Not everything is what it seems in Blight’s exorcism.
A dad passes on his love for music to his only son. )
Three generations meet in A Minha Juventude.
After “The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975” (2011) and the history of the Black Panther Party through archival footage of Swedish television, Göran Olsson edits together a history of racism and European colonialism (narrated by Lauryn Hill) based on the book by Frantz Fanon.)
Franssou Prenant goes back to Argel, where she lived as the wife of the Madagascar’s ambassador. She shoots a polyphony that mixes her own memories with other visions of the city, digging into the past life of Argel.
A heartbroken Christmas-tree salesman returns to New York City hoping to put his past behind him. Living in a trailer and working the night shift, he begins to spiral downwards until the saving of a mysterious woman and some colorful customers rescue him from self-destruction.)
The Parkinsons changed the punk scene when it was thought to be dead. Three Portuguese men conquered London with their outrageous live shows. Before reaching higher heights, they were swallowed by their own chaos.
Extraterrestrials can love.)
A good family girl has to know her manners, which includes performing a good fellatio, in Bien sur tout rapports.
“Cavern Club” tells the story of a young editor lost in a Lisbon for tourists, a decaying film industry, and demonstrations for a hopeless generation.)
José Vieira was born in Portugal but went to live in France when still a child. The theme of Portuguese emigration is at the core of his cinema. His most recent film takes the shape of a road movie to the country of his childhood.
A trio of girls set out to change the male-dominated environment of the Seven Oaks college campus, and to rescue their fellow students from depression, grunge and low standards of every kind.)
Sharon Stone crosses her legs with no pants on. Michael Douglas is on fire and both start to “dance” in bold sex scenes à la Astaire-Rogers style in the horizontal. This erotic thriller was a huge success of course.