Bertrand Morane finds all women unique. He is in love with the idea itself of feminity. For him, they are at the same time a source of inspiration and the reason of his death. one day, following a woman, he gets hit by a car while crossing the road. In the hospital, while trying to look at a nurse's legs, falls from the bed disconnecting the pipes for the blood transfusion a...
Marie, twenty years old, comes out from prison and moves in with her brother Antoine, who hangs out with a rough crowd and is involved in drugs dealing. One evening, Antoine, decides to keep for himself the money he takes on behalf of another drug dealer and offers an holiday to Marie, but he is killed soon afterwards in circumstances that are unclear. Marie will move heaven...
Evelyne works as a stripper in a nightclub, trying to scrape a living for herself and her young son. When a man she loved years earlier suddenly reappears she decides to pretend, for a few days at least, that her life has been more successful. But when Georges ask her to leave for Canada with him and her child, she must make a final choice.
In the late 1800's, Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austro-Hungarian empire, falls for Sophie Chotek, a Czech countess. He's already a problem to the Crown because of his political ideas; this love affair with someone not of royal blood breeches protocol. The Crown allows the union only after the couple agrees to a morganatic marriage. The emperor further neutralizes Fr...
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.
Ruth Zylberman ha scelto un edificio parigino di cui non sapeva nulla, il 209 di Rue Saint-Maur. Per diversi anni ha indagato con l'obiettivo di ritrovare i vecchi inquilini del palazzo, per poter ricostruire la storia di quella che era stata una piccola comunità ebrea durante l'occupazione nazista. Ha ritrovato gli ex abitanti del 209 nelle periferie di Parig...
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...
Asier and I grew up in the Basque Country. One day he disappeared and I found out he had joined ETA. How could I explain the reasons that led Asier to make a decision, which even I had trouble grasping?
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...
Xiaodou, a shy young man, starts working as a postman after a colleague gets fired and arrested because he was keeping some of the mails. Pushed by the will of straighten out the society's faults, he himself will also end up doing the same and will start maneuvering the events of some people's lives, whose private affairs are now known to him.
God extracts three little angels and one little demon from four eggs. Afterwards, helped by the little angels, he decides to go on with the Creation. In six days he thinks about everything even though the little demon disturbs Him in everything: he puts spikes on the roses, salt in the ocean and darnel in the wheat. This animation is composed of 400.000 drawings realized by ...
Peter Hradil, a former doctor, arrives in a small mountain village to work in the local sawmill. Here he meets for the second time Marta Vlachová, his last patient. When he met her for the first time, he was at the beginning of his career as a doctor, and for her he carried out an illegal abortion which cost him his degree in medicine. She asks him to leave the village, but ...
The movie tells the story of the greatest discus thrower Helga Rabova and present some reflections about life and the choiches that rarely don't imply a moral sacrifice. The title derives from the story that uncle Nezir tell. It tells about the fenix, the bird that every year gives happiness to the ones who believe in it.
