In a suspended, dreamlike space, symbolic elements and characters made out of baling wire and colored with tempera run after each other, frame after frame. A firstborn and his newborn brother in the eternal fight for survival which usually begins when the newborn arrives and everything changes.
Kurage is an imaginary island south-west of Japan and its inhabitants still live like primitives and believe that the island has been created by the gods. One day, the engineer Kariya arrives from Tokyo, looking for a source of water which is needed by a local sugar refinery. The local population will undermine his trust in rationality. The movie tells about the eternal conf...
1908, Torre del Lago. Doria, the waitress of the musician Puccini is accused by his wife, Elvira, to be his lover. The girl, incapable of bearing the injustice, kills herself. The autopsy will show that she was a virgin. This dramatic story pervaded Giacomo Puccini's life and music. Doria Manfredi's story will be the inspiration for Liù, in Turandot.
It happens, sometimes, that a place finds you, even when you are not even looking for it, and you find out that you can't live without it. This is what must have happened to Elisa, the day when she was found by Sadurano. She got lost and she was wandering around following the road which, from Castrocaro Terme, climbs up the hills like a serpent, almost crawling.
Vilian, a young professor with a passion for astronomy, discovers a comet and, together with his friend, Fiala, they dream of naming it after them. Meanwhile, Vilian's wife stresses him because she wants a bigger apartment. Later on, Vilian finds out that his friend gave the comet only his name, betraying his trust. Vilian gives up his job as a professor, but manages, anyway...
The story concerns three young people who meet in a small village near Canterbury. An American Army Sergeant who hasn't recently received any letter from his girlfriend, a British Army Sergeant, who, used to work as a pianist in a cinema, and a young shopping assistant, who joined the army after having lost her boyfriend in the war. Chaucer is a odd pretext for this pastoral...
Nell’atmosfera lunare di un’alba marina, tre pescatori seduti sul muretto scrutano immobili il mare, illuminati dalla luce artificiale dei lampioni. Cominciano così le quattro stagioni di Nicotera Marina, piccolissimo paese della costa calabrese. Un’unica voce ci accompagna in questo viaggio, una voce consapevole e partecipe, che illumina di umanit&a...
While on holiday, Scott Carey is exposed to a cloud of radioactive spray shortly after he accidentally ingests insecticide. The radioactivity acts as a catalyst for the bug spray, causing his body to shrink at a rate of approximately 1/7 of an inch per day. A few weeks later, Carey can no longer deny the truth: not only is he losing weight, he is also shorter than he was and...
Robert, a DJ, goes to Bristol to find out why his brother committed suicide. He meets a Scottish deserter, a mechanic fond of music and a woman who is looking for her missing daughter. The soundtrack includes Kraftwerk, David Bowie, Lene Lovich, Wreckless Eric. A black and white road movie, rich of references to the social and political climate of Great Britain in the 70'...
