Le Plaisir is based on three short stories by Guy de Maupassant: Le Masque, La Maison Tellier e Le Modèle. Each story offers some food for thought about people's ever-evolving definition of pleasure. A fascinating triptych narrated by the voice of Jean Servais.
After an ambush that decimated his unit, the soldier Christian Lafayette is back in France from Afghanistan. While he trying to resume a normal life, Mounir, his comrade in arms who was injured in the ambush, involves him in an opium trafficking. The mission from which they are the only ones survived was perhaps not the one they believed. Lafayette, a foster child and...
1623, Denmark. Anne, the young wife of the pastor Absalon Pederssön hides the old Marte, who is accused of witchcraft. When Marte is found, she asks the pastor to defend her, knowing that he had already protected a woman accused of witchcraft, Anne's mother, with the aim of marry her daughter. Marte will be tortured, obliged to confess and sent to the stake. Anne, agitated b...
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...
The story takes place in a conservative Danish city, where the widower Morten Borgen antagonises the entire city because of his heretic doubts. Even his children, Anders and Mikkel, don't believe in God. The third son, Johannes, believes, instead, to be Jesus Christ. Ordet is about the conflict between the inner faith and the organized religion movements. Based on a play by ...
Victor Frandsen is a domestic tyrant. His wife Ida is very sweet and takes care of her husband and her children. But this is not enough to satisfy her husband. Mads, Victors' nanny when he was a child, understands that Ida is on the verge of a serious breakdown and persuades Mrs Krigger, Ida's mother, to take Ida away. When Ida gets sick, Mrs. Krigger sends her to the countr...
Satan, damned by God, takes a human form and tempts the human beings to break the divine laws. The movie is composed of four episodes, set in different historical moments: the temptation of Jesus, The Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war. Based on a novel by Marie Corelli.
Dopo la fine della guerra in Bosnia, Halima, una contadina di un remoto villaggio musulmano, decide di ritrovare i resti di suo marito e di suo figlio, catturati dalle forze paramilitari serbe e giustiziati. Attraverso l'analisi del DNA, il Comitato delle Nazioni Unite per le persone scomparse riesce a identificare i resti del marito in una delle fosse comuni, ma non que...
Jong-du has been just released from prison for the third time, but his return home is not happy. One of his brothers is unemployed, the other one tries to involve him in his small business, without any success. Jong-du spends his days wandering adrift through the city. He suddenly decides to visit Gong-yu, the sister of the man he accidentally killed with his motorbike. She ...
Han has worked as a watch person at the Opera of Beijing. Now he is retired and spends his days feeling bored and useless. One day, in the park he meets a group of retired men who share with him the passion for theatre. So Han decides to found a club where they can meet to act or sing. Once the club is open, problems start: everybody wants to act in his own way. Han finds hi...
