On the day of his marriage, Julie's husband gets killed for fun by a group of friends. After an attempt of killing herself, Julie decides to take revenge, killing all the five men. Julie reminds of Tarantino's bride of Kill Bill. For both of them, revenge is a dish best served cold.
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 ...
The film tells about the daily lives of young children in Thiers, France. Patrick, thirteen years old, struggles through his first sentimental fervors, while other kids experience their own small dramas: Grégory falls from the window and gets away unharmed, Sylvie, reprimanded for whining, asks for help from all her neighbours, the brothers Deluca get into trouble trying to...
An important visual testimony of the New York new wave/punk scene of the 70s'. The film captures the concerts of the main characters - Tom Verlaine, David Byrne, Blodie - while they lay the foundations of punk rock. Particularly significant is Patti Smith's performance. Wild, tough and revolutionary, like the music she plays.
Amos Poe, enfant terrible of the American cinema, offers his disrespectful homages to Godard's À bout de souffle. The movie tells the story of Rico, who lives in New York in 1976, but lives in Paris during the Nouvelle Vague period. He is a photographer who believes to be a gangster, an outsider who uses his camera as if it was a gun. Rico is obviously also romantic, he beli...
Un illusionista omosessuale di mezza età vive la propria esistenza in un sofferto intreccio di sensazioni e di ricordi, legati questi ultimi all’estate del 1936 vissuta da tre adolescenti in un villa di Granata, all’amore di un ragazzo drammaticamente travolto dallo scoppio della guerra civile che doveva lacerare l’intera Spagna.
The continuous thirty-two hours working shift of some doctors at the Emergency. The doctors are fighting against tiredness and the technical lacks of the hospital.
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...
Antoine Doinel is 35 years old. He is married to Christine, but they divorce and stay on good terms. In the movie, the last chapter of the saga dedicated to Antoine Doinel, the protagonist meets again the women who left a mark in his life and, after several vicissitudes, he will find happiness with Sabine.
Shot in the head by a bullet during a police operation, Hoffmann, a young biologist, has lost his memory. He doesn't know who he is. He has to learn again to see, to listen, to feel, to walk, to speak. What really happened that night? Despite his sickness - or actually thanks to it - Hoffmann manages to break the vicious cycle of phantasy and speculation. Pretending to have ...
The secret agent Max Menace arrives in New York from Europe to meet someone who will reveal to him why he is there. He gets involved in a series of strange situations with eccentric characters, but he doesn't manage to find out why he is in Usa.
Each episodes is dedicated to a ballerina, from the youngest one, a girl who starts to dance, to the oldest, the teacher of the school.
The camera enters a museum of an European capital. There is only a receptionist sitting at a table, reading, and there are 92 drawings hanging on the walls, of small dimensions and of different materials. While the camera gets closer to the drawings, a voice over starts speaking. He is the person who collected those drawings, so that they can be of use after the death of a m...
Robert, a DJ, goes to Bristol to find out why his brother committed suicide. He meets a Scottish deserter, a mechanic fond of music and a woman who is looking for her missing daughter. The soundtrack includes Kraftwerk, David Bowie, Lene Lovich, Wreckless Eric. A black and white road movie, rich of references to the social and political climate of Great Britain in the 70'...
Secaucus, New Jersey, 1972: un gruppo di sette amici diretti a Washington per una manifestazione contro la guerra nel Vietnam viene arrestato e trattenuto per una notte dalla polizia con un pretesto qualsiasi, impedendo così loro di raggiungere la meta. Passati gli anni delle comuni battaglie, il gruppo si riunisce per passare un weekend nel New Hampshire. Durante la ...
The Zone is a mysterious region, nobody knows how or when it was formed, the authorities had it evacuated and they keep it under control impeding the entrance to anyone who tries to enter it. The Zone contains a place called "The Room", said to grant the wishes of anyone who steps inside. A writer, who has lost inspiration, and a scientist, who seems self confident about wh...
Diary of Solange, director. Chronicle of her sentimental life, of her life with her husband, with whom she lives and makes love occasionally, of her relationship with Jim, a bisexual man, who is at times adventurous mate and at other times distant critic. A story of love experiences, two or three per night, hoping to happen to find the perfect lover.
Two collection agents of the tobacco Monopoly are killed during a robbery. The main suspected is Enokizu, a delivery courier on behalf of the Monopoly. Police starts an inquiry about him and finds out that Enokizu is married and has two daughters, but his family never sees him. The man, feeling oppressed by all these controls, commits a series of crimes and for seventy-eight...
Belov is a worker. One night he is assailed in a park by two young men, who get immediately apprehended. Only one of them who can't afford a lawyer is sentenced, while the other gets by with a suspended sentence. Belov, who is upset by this injustice, visits the one who is in prison and ask the permission to take care of him and his re-education. The two are linked by a st...
Greenaway's first feature film is a documentary in which ninety-two persons are interviewed. They are all victims of a mysterious occurrence known as The Violent Unknown Event, or V.U.E. It has caused immortality and disability. A guidebook, published every ten years by the V.U.E. Board of Inquiry, illustrates the stories of the ninety-two persons involved in the catastrophe...
