Four young men have just finished school in their island fishing village in Taiwan and now spend most of their time drinking and fighting. Three of them decide to go to the port city of Gaoxiang to look for work. There they face the harsh reality of the big city. The movie attracted the attention of Olivier Assayas, a young critic who works for Cahiers du cinéma.
Twenty-year-old Atsushi and his seventeen-year-old girlfriend Mari arrive in Tokyo from the suburbs with plans to marry despite their parent's objections but they are soon pulled into the city's dark underside. Atsushi meets Miki, a fading adult video (AV) actress, and gets introduced by the veteran Yoshiya to the occupation of "scoutman", recruiters who ply the streets tryi...
Formaggino is a fledgling young better, lucky and cocky like all the novices. Hanging out at horse races, he meets the Professor, who is twenty years older than him and knows everything about that world. In exchange of money, Formaggino and his Professor agree to be interviewed and filmed.
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...
Two hundread years after its creation, a portrait of the Evangelic community, from the Swiss matrix of its origin to the various and rich experiences and cultures that it expresses today. The documentary portrays, through the sensibility of its several components, a community which keeps on influencing, with its discrete presence, the life and culture of the city of Bergamo.
Can a movie with death as a main subject make people laugh? Six feet above makes light of all those jobs dealing with death: the coffin maker, the embalmer, the medium, the cemetery worker, the florist. Memento mori...
Through the words of the witnesses, the film tells about the bombing of Dalmine Steelworks, which took place the morning of the 6th July 1944 and caused the death of hundreds of people. During a recent exploration, in the darkness of the bunker, the images of the remaining objects recall those tragic moments.
Some years ago, due to the "mad cow" alarm, it seemed that a new animal could become part of the Italian diet: the ostrich. What happened after? Some ostrich farmers show us how this animal could blend into the life of a farm in Bergamo.
They who think that Bergamo is a provincial city, where people are inexorably hemmed in cages, day after day, lifelong, should meet the main characters of Stop and start traffic. Commuting, be it a chosen or imposed lifestyle, is not only the main subject of the modern sociologic debate, but, first of all, it is the private matter of many individual stories.
The subject of the film is the daily life in a Youth Center. Kids and educators are tied up with the rehearsals for a concert, the preparations of a group dinner and the organization of a party. The precise eye of the camera shows the delicate dynamics that connect the main characters in relationships which are not always so easy to understand.
