“The Ideal Girl” brings back the memories of two older Portuguese women who coped with the female image nurtured by the fascist regime. )
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Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche’s fifth feature film is an alternate version of the story of Judas — a passionate and physical look on the days last of Jesus Christ and the love of his apostle.)
“The Incomplete” tells the story of a body looking for freedom in being a slave.)
Vincent Macaigne is the driving force of a transatlantic love, shot in the streets of New York City, that refuses to die.
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Nicolas, a fourteen year-old foster child, lives with an elderly couple. One day he robs them and runs away with a book and a postcard. The book, he will read with a girl he has just met. The postcard, will go to the sea with the girl.
In the Mediterranean port of Barcelona two young unemployed girls living in a renovation area drift around the city desperately looking for a job. Eventually their own house is being destroyed and they become homeless.
A one-night party, love with music: Cape to the North, on a northern soul beat.
A man of many facets, this eternal outsider cultivates an impression of authenticity and ambiguity. He likes to play with his image and only creates a mythology to undermine it. He illustrates the America of Charlie Parker and that of Dirty Harry. He remains the most enigmatic of the greatest directors. Clint Eastwood has agreed to tell us what stands behind the human and creative adventure of a complete athlete: actor, director, producer, composer.
“With Joy and Merriness” is an animated gore comedy on eternal life.)
Rita tells us how she broke her finger for the first time.)
“The Last Night” shows the last round of a young man before he leaves his boarding school.)
“The Girl From Berlin” films the silent and poetic moments of a young love between Lisbon and Berlin. )
On holiday in his summer house, Jorge, a still young but well to do lawyer who suffers from diabetes, tells Filipa, his wife and formerly his nurse, that he wants to divorce her. Next day, three persons arrive: Tiago, an old friend and now a writer, who is actually having an affair with Filipa; Sara, Tiago’s sister; and Francisca, who is actually having an affair with Jorge. That few days are not exactly harmonious and happy.
A fast trip on an easy chair.
In a flat, a young couple and a prostitute try to build S&M games, but desires and willing are vague, contradictory, incompatible.
Former monk, now bodybuilder/male stripper Andy Lau possesses the ability to see a person’s karma, the fate that they have earned in this life for their deeds in a past incarnation. His attempts to protect young cop Cheung from her predestined horrible fate through a series of visually exultant surreal action set pieces, are doomed. The film starts as dazzling fantasy action (a shape-shifting Indian contortionist, a Human Fly), then moves through semi-romantic suspense thriller until it finally blossoms into an entirely original, structurally complex Buddhist philosophical treatise. This unexpected Buddhist turn launches the world of the film beyond typical To tragedy into an entirely new and uncanny realm. (S. Kraicer)
“The Invention of Night” brings us the dark universe of a haunted forest and the animals desires of a rambling youth.)
“The Eyes of André” is a fictional reenactment of a true family story in Arcos de Valdevez, Portugal, through the eyes of a young boy.)