In 1968 Sybilla is eighteen years old. The story takes place in Sofia, Bulgaria, during a time of great political and social fights, rebellion and sexual revolution. Amidst the political upheaval, she is sent to a girls' re-education camp when she is caught using drugs. After a failed affair and an abortion, Sybilla's drug use lands her in a mental clinic where she resists e...
The film, a montage comprising images of Cézanne's paintings, pictures of him at work and a conversation between the painter and a young admirer named Joachim Gasquet, offers a suggesting view on Cézanne's painting. It also includes film scenes from both Jean Renoir's "Madame Bovary" and the Straubs' "The Death of Empedocles".
Nel 1920 il maggiore Dellaplane è incaricato di identificare i caduti francesi senza nome del recente conflitto; il Governo, nel frattempo, deve scegliere il milite ignoto da onorare. Irène sta cercando la salma del marito disperso. Tra lei e Dellaplane, così diversi e in un primo tempo ostili, nascerà un'intesa che solo due anni dopo (forse t...
È da più di mezzo secolo che il pittore bergamasco Trento Longaretti (1916) ci parla dei poveri, dei diseredati, del mondo di coloro che vivono ai margini di una società opulenta. La sua ricerca espressiva ha messo spesso a tema la figura del viandante, del pellegrino, dell’“uomo che cammina”, metafora e figura dell’uomo di sempre...
Per eliminare un boss della mafia locale, Jeff – noto killer professionista – scatena una furibonda sparatoria in un night club, dove Jenny, la cantante, viene colpita da un proiettile vagante e perde la vista. La sola cura è un costoso trapianto di cornea. Ossessionato dal senso di colpa, Jeff accetta un ultimo lavoro per pagare l’intervento. Ma la ...
Rosie Morris is a committed, yet unsuccessful writer, with more problems than pubblications. Her agent, desperate, tries to launch a diet guide written by Rosie, changing the title to make it more appealing. Suddenly Rosie finds herself transformed into a guru of diets overwhelmed by fame, but she is unprepared. The film was nominated for the BAFTA award for the Best Short F...
Helén and Jenö are waiting for a child and are desperately searching for an accomodation. They eventually sign a contract with an old lady, Szeréna, who lives in a two-family house. According to the contract, they are to pay a moderate rent and they have to take care of her until her death. After the first weeks, Szeréna accuses the couple of trying to poison her and build...
Kirpi is a middle-class writer whose latest screenplay has been rejected. He is married to a sharp-tongued woman who dubs the voice of Marilyn Monroe. He will find himself involved in Kiraz's marital distress, his servant. Left Istanbul to reach Kiraz in her village, in the Turkish countryside, he finds out that away from the sophistication of the capital, life is regulated ...
Gilbert has been released by a psychiatric hospital, but he is clearly completely mad. He spreads chaos and violence and the only thing he aims to is to reach the ocean. Suzanne falls in love with him and the passion between the two generates even more confusion. Nothing can impede Gilbert to reach the ocean.
Kikuchi is not a man particularly brilliant or outgoing, but anyway he has deep thoughts. During the day he works in a big launderette, where he mechanically fills and empties the washing machines. In the evenings, he works in a supermarket. He falls in love with a girl who works as a cashier there, but he is too shy to speak to her. When he finds out that his new colleague ...
