“On the Side” is a new look by Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra on Lisbon suburban life.)
Archives: Filmes
David Epiney takes us through the words of Blaise Cendars in “Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne de France”.)
A country house. A weekend. A family. Time goes by. Silence prevails. …But listen to the breath of the unceasing message made of silence… R. M. Rilke
Frankie is fifteen and preparing for fatherhood. He is determined to be the best dad ever, but as his day goes on, he starts to realise how impossible this will be for him.
“Haftlange 4616”, Jan Soldat’s latest film, is his definite look on the sexual and power relations that hide in those cells — in other words, an alternate way to look at the current tensions of German history and, consequently, European society.)
“Over the years” follows ten years in the life of a small Austrian town during and after the closure of its textile industry.)
Ray Ruby’s Paradise, a classy go go cabaret in downtown Manhattan is a dream palace, run by charismatic Ray Ruby, with expert assistance from a bunch of longtime cronies, sidekicks and colourful hangers on, and featuring the most beautiful and talented girls imaginable. But all is not well in Paradise. Ray’s facing imminent foreclosure. His dancers are threatening a strip-strike. Even his brother and financier wants to pull the plug. But the dreamer in Ray will never give in. He’s bought a foolproof system to win the Lottery. One magic night he hits the jackpot. And loses the ticket… A classic screwball comedy in the madcap tradition of Frank Capra, Billy Wilder and Preston Sturges.
From a mere technical point of view the tv/video screen comes alive by a controlled beam of electrons in the cathode ray tube. For ‘Energie!’ an uncontrolled high voltage discharge of approx. 30.000 volts exposes photographic paper which is then arranged in time to create new visual systems of electron organization.
“Our Lady of Hormones” goes into the surreal and fantastic realm of two actresses lost in a magical land where a strange, ugly object of pleasure rules.)
Jan Soldat’s different people and characters — or a family portrait of love.)
A man gets out of prison. Like a modern Ulysses, he will undertake a homeless journey into a contemporary, mutilated Athens. On his way, he will meet a woman and a little girl. Are the three of them members of a broken family or just victimizers and victims of a violent and conflict-ridden society that prevents them from living together?
All the action of The Mugger takes places in one morning. The man is about to execute a plan he has been preparing for a long time. The camera follows him around throughout all his actions. The audience becomes a privileged witness of this person’s most intimate moments of anxiety and desperation that precede what is about to be a life or death decision.
Even rhinoceroses love to dance!)
A film producer struggles with suicidal despair.)
Like a walk through the dreams of another. The sun shines through the treetops and leaves, the sky is reflected in a lake, and on the banks of the short there lie people with ticks. They make grimaces, or yell obscene words in the middle of someone else’s sentence. Some are introverts, other are actors. What will happen this time if my limbs twitch, or if I scream? What kind of scream is this? One says it’s a cry for love. Wrong, says another, looking for an argument. It’s a cry for authenticity. (Renée Zucker)
An unnamed art-deco retro city of the future panics when a malevolent underground leader starts to kidnap and devour its baby children. Into the breach fly three lady superheroes: Hong Kong’s finest female stars of the 1990s. Sporting a complex back story of betrayals and secret sibling relationships, this baroque high flying tale of female night gallantry offers some of the best airborne action ecstasy of 1990s Hong Kong, the golden age for nouveau wuxia action. But the film transcends its camp appeal with complex psycho-social sexual dynamics: male emasculation anxiety en drag transmutes maternal power into superheroism (Mui), butch anarchism (Cheung), and hidden gay desire (Yeoh). (S. Kraicer)
An existential horror movie – and violence and a way to renew marriage.)
Where does rain come from?)