Anna, an American nanny is employed by a rich Spanish family to take care of three girls. On the isolated country estate, Anna meets the three family men who embody the stereotypes of the Francoist Spain. Like three wolves, the three men encircle Anna reflecting the oppression of the army, the religion and the family. The film was screened at the festival of Cannes in 1973.
Pablo is a strange guy. He eats only wild fruits and dogs get furious when he passes by. One day he runs away and holes up in the forest. He risks to be torn to pieces by some dogs but he is rescued by Luis, a psychologist. Pablo now resembles an animal. Luis brings him back to town to educate him. Ana, a young piano player will awaken his feelings. The movie was screened at...
The movie tells about Pascual Duarte's life, born in 1902 and sentenced to death in 1937 for having killed his mother and Don Jesus, the wealthiest nester of the region. On the background, the Spanish events which will lead to the seizure of power by the popular front and the following victory of Francisco Franco. Based on the novel by the nobel Prize-winning José Cela, "La ...
31st December 1999, outskirts of Madrid. Manuel and his wife, Paloma, who is in the final stages of pregnancy, are invited to dinner at her parents' house. Manuel asks to borrow his friend's truck, but Paloma's father, to underline the shortage of his son in law, insists to pick them up with his big car, but the car is being stolen. That's the beginning of a bizarre new year...
Augustín, medico rabdomante, sua moglie Julia e la figlia Estrella abitano a La Gaviota, una casa nei sobborghi di una città nel Nord della Spagna. Estrella, cresciuta subendo il fascino di Augustín, da adolescente si confronta con la figura paterna e il sospetto che nella sua vita ci sia stata un'altra donna. Man mano che nuovi elementi sul passato ...
Tasio, born in a farmhouse at the feet of the Urbesca mountains, becomes a charcoal burner at the age of fourteen and meets Paulina during a dancing at their village and she will become his wife. Tasio leads a free life, alternating his job to the activity of poacher, which he will never abandon, not even during the most difficult moments, when he will be abandon by everybody.
The legendary Oleg Nikolayevitch Karavaychuk is the mysterious and moving subject of this loving film by the director Duque. He was moved by the music the pianist composed for a film by Kira Muratova and is the first foreigner to win the trust of the eccentric and still active 89-year-old Russian. Several biographical facts: Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaychuk (1927) played the pi...
According to a Swedish legend, the last person to die each year has to collect the souls of everyboby who dies the following year with the carriage of death. David Holm is an alcoholic carpenter who mistreats his wife and dreams to be in charge of this carriage. In this daydream, he faces his soul who helps him to redeem his life and save his wife from suicide. The film is n...
Internationally Sweden is seen as a perfect society, a role model and a symbol of the highest achievements of human progress. The Swedish Theory of Love digs into the true nature of Swedish life style, explores the existential black holes of a society that has created the most autonomous people in the world.
In Erik Gandini’s recent documentary The Swedish Theory of Love (2015) there is a character who stands out, the surgeon Erik Erichsen. This film is an intimate portrait of him and his wife Sennait. After serving 30 years in a Swedish hospital Dr Erichsen was fed up with all the bureaucracy and administration. He decided to move someplace where he could make a...
