Giulietta ha festeggiato l'anniversario del suo matrimonio, ma è infelice perché sa che Giorgio, il marito, ha una relazione con un'altra donna. In un primo tempo cerca conforto spirituale interrogando un veggente indiano, poi cerca di instaurare un dialogo con il marito e con la rivale. Il matrimonio è però ormai in crisi irreversibile e ...
Il burattino protagonista, un vasaio-scultore, intende mantenere la propria autonomia e tenta di resistere in ogni modo agli attacchi di una mano gigantesca, che vuole costringerlo a maettere la sua arte al proprio servizio. La ribellione si conclude con la morte del burattino e con la mano del potere che gli rende onoranze funebri ufficiali.
Orville works as a piano teacher and songwriter in a small town. One day, he finds himself obliged to host a famous singer and renowned Don Juan in his house. This might be the chance to make him listen to his songs and become rich, but the risk that he could seduce his wife is too big. To protect her, Orville prepares a set-up: he replaces his unaware wife with the docile w...
Hiraoka breaks into Riichi's house, while he is away with his son, and he raped his wife. She decides to commit suicide but not before having seen her son for the last time. When her husband is back, Sadako can't find the courage to tell him what happened. Two days after, while Riichi is visiting his lover and colleague, Hiraoka breaks into his house again and Sadako takes a...
Dreyer's final film is a Danish drama based on the 1906 play of the same name by Hjalmar Söderberg. Gertrud, unhappily married with a lawyer and politician, meets first her former lover, a famous poet, then starts a relation with a young composer and eventually ends up living alone. Thirty years later, Gertrud looks back at her life. She says that love is the only thing that...
During a battle in Saragossa, a French officer finds a large book with strange drawings that capture his attention. While he is looking at it, an enemy officer tries to arrest him but ends up translating the book for him. The second officer recognize its author as his own grandfather. The book and the movie tell about the life of Alfonso Van Worden, who was a captain in the...
Cherbourg, 1957. Geneviève Emery, whose mother sells umbrellas at her at a tiny boutique, loves Guy Foucher, a young mechanic who lives with his sickly aunt. When Guy leaves to become a soldier in the Algerian war, Geneviève finds out to be pregnant and decides to marry the wealthy Roland Cassard. Demy tells about an impossible love story which takes place in a port city ...
In his second feature film, Roman Polanski follows the frightful story of a neurosis. The main character, Carole, interpreted by Catherine Deneuve, left alone in the apartment she shares with her sister, drifts towards a kind of neurosis and can't stand the presence of any men. Polanski said: "Insanity is scaring because you know that it can bring you to yourself". A visiona...
Luciano, proletario anarchico e intellettuale di provincia, marcia su Milano con progetti dinamitardi per un grattacielo, ma si lascia risucchiare dalla società del benessere e diventa un "creativo" pubblicitario. Basato sul romanzo (1962) di Luciano Bianciardi, il film ne rispecchia il valore di ritratto profetico di una società votata al consumismo,...
Montaggio di foto riguardanti le lotte di emancipazione dei popoli afroamericani col tappeto sonoro del disco omonimo di Max Roach (con la voce di Abbey Lincoln), uno degli album più importanti e intensi del jazz degli anni Sessanta.
