Johnny Bennet, giornalista del Globe, ha un tarlo che lo rode: assicurarsi un colpo sensazionale, scrivere pezzi da prima pagina e guadagnare il premio Pulitzer. Insieme al direttore del quotidiano per cui lavora, architetta un piano che dovrebbe garantire il successo a lui e al giornale. Il film inizia con Bennet che "prova" la parte di malato nello studio di uno ...
Parigi. Jean, un impiegato di banca, scopre il mondo del gioco d’azzardo attraverso un amico e quindi si reca a Nizza per giocare al casinò. Qui ritrova Jackie Demestre, una giocatrice disposta a tutto. I due si mettono in società, e vincono subito un bel po’ di soldi. Ma abbandonare non è così facile. Indimenticabile la Moreau in bion...
Il mondo di uno scrittore illustrato dall’interno attraverso una sua notte di lavoro e le pagine dei suoi romanzi e racconti sceneggiati e interpretati da attori occasionali e professionisti. Il tutto svolto in una Firenze dilatata ad universo: la Firenze di Pratolini come la Dublino di Joyce o l’Odissea di Babel. Un universo dunque con i suoi vizi e i suoi umori...
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,...
