Vivian, Lisa, Tanja. Three women, three models, three friends. Always trying to make a career for themselves, be loved, find the right man, achieve the ideal body, they go from casting to casting; talk for hours on the phone with girlfriends, men, mothers, agencies and photographers, wait mostly in vain for jobs, and careen feverishly from one disco night to the next. Vivian, Lisa, Tanja. Three models, three friends, three rivals.
Based on real people and events. Chung Chun-Tao was born in Taishan, China. She was adopted in infancy. Her foster father died during the Japanese Occupation and her foster mother sent her away to work. Since her teenage years, Chung Chun-Tao has worked as an amah ‚ a servant ‚ for the Leung family. Known as Ah Tao, she has witnessed every aspect of the family’s life. Some members of the Leung family have passed away and some have emigrated. Now, after 60 years of service, she is looking after Roger, who works in the film industry and is the only family member left in Hong Kong. One day Roger comes home from work to find that Ah Tao has suffered a stroke. He rushes her to hospital, where she announces that she wants to quit her job and move into an old people’s home.
What is this world we live in where 38 people watch a rape followed by a brutal murder and pretend that nothing happened? Whether out of laziness or indifference, the truth is that nobody called the police while the horror lasted. And how does someone who begins to feel the remorse for what he didn’t do faces the hostility of those who gradually feel the world they live in falling apart? Those who prefer to ignore than to see the destabilization of the fragile fantasy that surrounds them? Like a craftsman, Lucas Belvaux reconstitutes that evening in a tour-de-force of an harrowing violence. It’s good to have the Belgian back! (Rui Pereira)
In a large apartment high above the city lives our couple. They’re in love. She’s a painter; he’s a successful actor. Just a normal afternoon ‚ except that this isn’t a normal afternoon, for them or anyone else. Because tomorrow, at 4:44 am, give or take a few seconds, the world will come to an end far more rapidly than even the worst doomsayer could have imagined. The final meltdown will come, not without warnings, but with no means of escape. There will be no survivors. As always, there are those who, as their final cigarette is being lit and the blindfold tightened, will still hope against hope for some kind of reprieve. For a miracle. Not our two lovers. They ‚ like the majority of the Earth’s population ‚ have accepted their fate; the world is going to end.
Abel Ferrara embraces his Italian origin, picks up his macho ego and his digital camera and pays an informal visit to one of the most notorious ‚at least cinematically- streets in New York, the Mulberry Street. Part of the Little Italy neighborhood, Mulbe
Maria, a Ukrainian doctor, arrives at Faro airport in Portugal, as a tourist. Of all the passengers on her plane, Maria is the only one to be detained and interrogated by the Immigration Police. The situation turns into a nightmare when the Police officer
There was a major event back in 2000, between neighboring Thailand and Burma. A group of guerrillas entered a hospital and made a series of people hostages. This memorial film looks at the consequences of this event and follows these guerrillas, in a sort of metaphysical journey between past and present, between fiction and reality. (M. V.)
From juxtaposed images, always a bit apart, the film creates the festive mood of a touristic attraction in the island of Pentecôte, in Vanuatu. The French awarded video artist, ethnographically documents the imminent tension of the moment in which men are
Inspired on the work of Branquinho da Fonseca, this is neuro-gothic remake of a ghost film, directed during the II World War. Forbidden by the Dictator because it portrays a little tyrant, a male vampire who terrified the inhabitants of a mountain region.
Robinson, the alter-ego of the director himself, returns with another excursion this time to the countryside of Berkshire and Oxfordshire. A mysterious hidden observer known to us by his previous searches in “London” and “Robinson in Space” sets off to do
Picture this: A amazingly sexy ex-beauty queen rapes her husband seven times. Does that sound believable? Errol Morris, with his new sci-fi documentary investigates the limits of male erection via his protagonist and media darling of the 70s Joyce McKinne
One of the birth fathers of New Queer Cinema of the 90s and a true uncompromising indie director, Araki with his 10th feature ‚ “Kaboom” ‚ proves he hasn’t mature one bit. Smith, an undeclared gay college freshman is attracted to his straight surfer roomm
In this film the adults behave like children and children like adults. The child is Lina, seven, daughter of Aya and Louis, who lives with her mother and Victor, her new companion. Lina holds in this film a haunting and revelatory presence. It had to be Doillon, the French filmmaker who better knows how to film childhood. Lina is, throughout the film, the more astute observer and commentator of her parents’ new desire for rapprochement. We are very close to the American comedies of Cukor and Lubitsch – a couple separates and later we are confronted with their new renaissance… Doillon exalts through a subtle and precise mise-en-scène the complexity of feeling in love and its fickleness. The characters are presented without masks and seek in a dizzying and perverse dance a superior fidelity – the debauchery – or perhaps the Unbearable Lightness of Being? (A. I. S.)
The truth is it’s all the Taliban’s fault. If he hadn’t kill three US soldiers in a sunny dune desert of Afghanistan, he wouldn’t be caught by the US military. He wouldn’t be transferred to a military base in Central Europe for interrogation. He wouldn’t
“The Non Educated Delinquents” (the film’s full title) are the children of a lesser God, the children destined to become the lower members of the working class, the future prisoners and the homeless of Glasgow. A suffocating and socially divided Glasgow o
Omar and Emmanuel, a gay couple, are about to end their relationship, when Omar sets off to a business trip in New York asking his partner to move out before his return. A drama on how two men experience their break up separately. Two different men, in tw
“In the confined space of a bedroom, an old man lying on his bed has been waiting for me for thirty years. He has a secret and is dying to reveal it. I set my DV camera at the foot of the bed… Juggling with two tongues, French and Occitan, Jean Dougnac
In a dirty New York, John buys and sells everything others reject. Fumbled by everything and everyone, he trusts the wrong people and spends his time confronting himself with little con men. In this soft desires comedy, where everything seems to be light,