The life of a French DJ who’s credited with inventing “French house” or the “French touch,” a type of French electronic music that became popular in the 1990s.)
Secção: Retrospectivas | Retrospectives
A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.)
Story of two female Manhattan book editors fresh out of college, both finding love and themselves while frequenting the local disco.)
“All Is Forgiven”, Mia Hansen-Løve’s first feature, is a reflection of her future work: love, absence, and the feelings one goes through as time passes (here, the relationship between an estranged father and his daughter).)
A chronicle of the romance between Camille and Sullivan, which begins during their adolescence and picks up after Sullivan’s 8-year absence from exploring the world.)
Guerín travels to the Irish town of Innisfree, where his beloved John Ford shot The Quiet Man, to explore the still echoing changes since Ford’s visit years before. Revisiting the past using re-enactments with an imagined Maureen O’Hara, Innisfree explores the difference between then and now in order to chart the interstices between memory and history, between imagination, fantasy and reality, and between classical narrative cinema and contemporary, observational documentary.
“Late August, Early September” by Olivier Assayas was Mia Hansen-Løve’s gateway to cinema and her first role as an actress. )
A young foreigner wanders through the streets of a city, spontaneously observing and sketching gestures and expressions. He is looking for a woman he met there six years before. His memories of her and her image still hang over the city. This search leads him to another woman and another again yet he remains forever under the spell of the one who is absent.
The story of two young small crooks who owe a lot of money to the Gipsy Mafia. The street fights and the illegal car chases, under action movies codes, are merely a pretext to inquest a real dangerous environment, with an incredible ramification of the crime organization. Shot in a quasi documentary way, Rage brings on the screen mobsters amazingly portrayed by non professional actors.
A film producer struggles with suicidal despair.)
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)
Over three years, José Luis Guerín recorded with obsessive rigor the demolition of an entire section of the Barrio Chino, a crumbling working-class neighborhood in Barcelona, and the construction of a modern residential complex for the new Catalan middle-class. But as the construction of the city of the future proceeds, the past reasserts itself over and over again: as much in the eerie discovery of an ancient Roman cemetery below the foundations of the new building as in the rich cultural lore revealed in a casual conversation between two old neighbors.
A famous old man has died and everyone is gathered for his funeral. But they don’t seem to be too affected. The old man’s nephew seems to be the only one who cares and attends horrified by the general indifference.
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.
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 inhabitants of a border village all do business with their neighbors on the other side. The wife of a fat, shy postman talks him into doing the same.
One beautiful spring morning, in a small village awaiting the Internet and where the mayor’s wife wants a new WC, the schoolteacher and the mayor’s driver are brought together for a trip to the nearby city. They will meet a number of obstacles on their mission.
Two railroad workers live in a lineman’s cabin. There is not much to do and days are pretty much the same. One night, a stranger has an accident. An incident that will forever change their lives.