Cinema of the World

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A boat worker, Farrel (Juan Fernandez), spends his shore leave traveling from the port city to a rural community in the mountains build around an old saw mill. Ostensibly traveling to see his mother, Farrel takes his time and drinks enough alcohol along the way to suggest a significant confrontation is brewing. But the result couldn't be further from the suggestion. Alonso's single-shot observational style records only dry action—Farrel getting dressed for a night shift, packing his bags, waiting for a ride to the mountains, or pulling yet another swig from his seemingly bottomless bottle of vodka. The result is that the confrontation between Farrel, his mother, and the daughter he left in the logging camp has the same anti-dramatic weight as a shot of Farrel zipping up his handbag or eating a meal.

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Comedian and political humorist Bill Maher travels to Israel, England, the Netherlands, Vatican City, and across America, speaking to people about faith and religion in the very funny documentary RELIGULOUS. Maher, a stand-up comedian who has hosted the talk shows POLITICALLY INCORRECT on ABC and REAL TIME on HBO and has written such bestsellers as DOES ANYBODY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT? and WHEN YOU RIDE ALONE, YOU RIDE WITH BIN LADEN, reaches out to religious leaders as well as regular folk on the street, discussing the existence of God and the importance of organized religion.

Maher makes it clear from the start that he is not a fan of religion and does not believe in God, and he has fun skewering people who do--including Christians, Jews, Muslims, and Mormons, rabbis, priests, politicians, scientists, evangelical ministers, and even a preacher whose church is a converted truck. He also visits such places as the Holy Land Experience in Orlando, Florida, where he interviews the actor who plays Jesus in a live show there, and the Red Light District in Amsterdam, notorious for its legalized drugs and prostitution. As he has done on his television programs and in his books, Maher questions literal interpretations of the Bible, seeing it more as a collection of fairy tales.

Like such Michael Moore documentaries as FAHRENHEIT 9/11 and BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE, Maher's RELIGULOUS uses humor--and lots of cynicism and sarcasm--to examine controversial theories and topics that people feel very strongly about, no matter what side of the fence they are on. In addition to making audiences laugh, RELIGULOUS will make them think.

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Despite a complete lack of financing and cast, driven young director Miguel Gomes is hell-bent on making a film and dives headlong into a cinematic kaleidoscope. With a camera and a small crew, Gomez travels to a remote Portuguese mountainside, where the Pardieiros music festival is under way, and begins filming the townsfolk. While the festival sets one's eyes ablaze and toes tapping, Gomes finds a narrative slowly and sneakily emerging. Locations, songs, and characters from the documentary are recast as echoes of their former selves. Townspeople are reincarnated as members of a family band and incestuous subplots unfold. These colliding realities beg the question: Is the beginning of the film merely research for following fiction? Is truth a rehearsal for fiction here, or is it the other way around? This one-of-a-kind diptych probes the intersection of documentary and fiction filmmaking, suggesting that story and reality are echoes of one another. Ravishingly photographed and brilliantly assembled, Our Beloved Month of August is a travelogue to get lost in, an indigenous film created by tourists. It’s also a window into a fascinating filmmaking process that continues to unravel long after the credits roll.

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In the Tokyo of the future, the police force has been privatized and the armor-clad cops have traded in “to serve and protect” for “to sever and impale” as a policing motto. But even deadlier than the cops are the “engineers,” psychotic genetically mutated killers whose bodies can morph into grotesque weapons. They’re so dangerous that a special team of cops has been created to hunt down and kill engineers. Chief among the hunters is Ruka (Eihi Shiina, best known as the piano-wire-wielding femme fatale in Takashi Miike’s “Audition”), a demure young lass with a penchant for cutting herself with a utility knife and slicing bad guys in half with her samurai sword.
But Ruka herself is being hunted by the Key Man (Itsuji Itao), the mad scientist responsible for creating the engineers. As Key Man’s creations run riot throughout the city, slaughtering prostitutes, gangsters and regular folks with gleeful abandon, Ruka’s investigation leads her to confront dark secrets about her own past—and a realization that she may have more in common with the Key Man and his engineers than with her police brethren.
(On Cinema Suicide.)

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To the question on the boundary that exists between autobiography and self-portrait, Agnès Varda answers dynamiting it, opting in Les Plages d'Agnès for an associative, Joycean flow, capable of starting off with childhood beaches as they are today, to then evoke privileged or remembered moments during the shooting, going backwards and forward, at the port of Sète, where she shot La Pointe courte, and then to an extraordinary evocation of his longtime partner Jacques Demy, covering the Cuban Revolution, her place in the French New Wave, the help she received from Jean-Luc Godard, or her period in the US, which includes Jim Morrison himself. Her joyous freedom for writing, her terror towards solemnity brought together with slight, self-critical humor, and the way in which the course of the film starts finding its way (while it causes the powerful realization that the director was present in every significant cultural and political event, at the right time and with her camera and love in her hand), turn Les Plages d'Agnès into a unique and pleasant object. To think that it's her cinematic testament is to believe that she has the age that appears in her ID, but Varda is a curious clinic case: she is the first adolescent who has lived through everything.

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THE FILM
What would you do if the world was going to end in 72 hours?
The U.N. Secretary General has announced that a gigantic meteorite will collide with the Earth in three days time. There is no hope of survival after the impact. The world is swept by despair, chaos and death. The inhabitants of the isolated town of Laguna listen in terror to the news.
Seeing the collective hysteria, Ale, a frustrated young man who lives with his mother and does odd jobs around the town, decides to spend his final days shut away in his house, getting drunk and listening to his favorite music.
But his plans change suddenly when he finds himself forced to help his mother, Rosa, to protect his brother's four children against the arrival of Lucio, an ambiguous, disconcerting stranger with obscure intentions
Ale, Rosa, Tomas... real characters in a real setting: LAGUNA, an isolated town somewhere in the south of Spain. The initial treatment of the story, apparently conventional, takes a sudden turn, just like the story Itself when a staggering news report shatters the monotonous existence in LAGUNA. Within three days Humanity will be wiped out... three last days in which a series of events will propel our characters towards a violent and unexpected end.
F. Javier Gutierrez

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Kaiba is very much an experimental anime, which tries to be different from the stuff you usually see. The character-designs may look childish and simple, but make no mistake: this storyline isn’t afraid to show adult themes at all, and the perfect example of why you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. It’s about a futuristic world with the fascinating concept in which people’s memories can be stored in chips and placed from one body to the other. The series smartly spends its first half fleshing out and playing with this concept, so that the viewer feels at home inside the setting, only for the second half to kick in with the real meat of the series, where the storyline keeps spiraling to the point of going out of control. The final episode is indeed one of chaos.

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Lionel (Descas), a black train driver, has devoted his entire life to bringing up his daughter Josephine (Diop). Aware that she is old enough to want her independence, he is reluctant to lose her and she is not quite ready to leave the protective cocoon of home. Their neighbours include taxi driver Gabrielle (Dogue) whose gentle attempts to befriend them are firmly resisted, and Noe (Colin) who has left his flat exactly as it was when he inherited it from his late parents.

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YesAsia: After Takeshis' and Glory to the Filmmaker, acclaimed filmmaker Kitano Takeshi completes his idiosyncratic trilogy on artistic rumination and creative crisis with Achilles and Tortoise. More accessible and audience-friendly than his previous two essays, Achilles and the Tortoise is told in three acts, following the art and adventures of an ardent, but middling artist at different stages in his navel-gazing life. Mocking art while making it, Kitano himself painted the film's colorful artwork which delightfully parody the protagonist and modern art. Taking the film's title from Zeno's Achilles and Tortoise paradox positing that the fastest runner can never overtake the slowest, Kitano creates a fascinating character study full of offbeat humor, wry commentary, and self-absorbent reflection.
The son of a wealthy businessman, Machisu (Yoshioka Reo) discovers his passion, or perhaps obsession, for art at a young age. After his father's bankruptcy and suicide, Machisu has to move in with his unwelcoming rural relatives, but that doesn't deter him from painting. In his teenage years, Machisu (Yanagi Yurei) engages in various off-the-wall artistic pursuits at art school, and meets his soulmate Sachiko (Aso Kumiko, Suite Dreams). In middle age, Machisu (Kitano Takeshi) and wife Sachiko (Higuchi Kanako, Memories of Tomorrow) stalwartly continue to chase after their lifelong passion and dreams. But at this point, one thing has become painfully clear: Machisu has no talent.

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Writes Lawrence Weiner: "SITUATED WITHIN A LANDSCAPE OF HUMAN INTERACTION THOSE ACTIVITIES THAT LEAD TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF STRUCTURES NECESSARY TO DEAL WITH OR CO-EXIST WITH THE FORCES OF NATURE, WATER IN MILK EXISTS ATTEMPTS TO PRESENT VARIOUS CHARACTERS AT A POINT OF DISJUNCTIVE BUT SIMULTANEOUS REALITIES. IF THE CONCISE PLACEMENT OF STONES LEADS TO A STRUCTURE (A TRUISM POSED BY MIES VAN DER ROHE) THEN PERHAPS A CONCISE PLACEMENT OF PERSONS CAN LEAD TO A STRUCTURE NOT BASED UPON PARALLEL HIERARCHIES. THE ACTIVITIES OF THE PLAYERS FIT WITHIN THE GENRE OF ADULT FILMS. IN FACT, THE PLAYERS ARE ADULTS."

A Structure of Lawrence Weiner.

Players: N Beckwith,Lesny Jn Felix, Cleo Fishel, Taka Fukuya, Jonathan Hokklo, Joann Kim, Lucca Jean Lax, Kristen Lorello, Zaza M., Christopher Mitchell, Natalie S. Mignon, Kitao Sakurai, Ryan Scanlan. Director of Photography: Kiki Allgeier. Producer: Noritoshi Hirakawa. Executive Producer: Edi A. Stockli. The Swiss Institute, New York. Curator: Gianni Jetzer. Editors: Kiki Allgeier, Lawrence Weiner. Graphics: Bethany Izard. Melodic Noise: Kim Allgeier, Lawrence Weiner. Henry the Navigator, copyright Lawrence Markey and Lawrence Weiner.

--EAI

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Wallace and his dog, Gromit, open a bakery and get tied up with a murder mystery. But, when Wallace falls in love Gromit is left to solve the case.

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The story of french gangster Jacques Mesrine, before he was called Public Enemy N°1.

7.5 at imdb.

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When Mesrine and Guido killed an Algerian pimp I instantly remembered "Goodfellas". But "L'instinct de mort" is an European version of that. That means it is a lot tougher, a definite lot tougher and more realistic than Scrosese's film.

Mesrine is depicted as an incontrollable, sociopathic character. There is no way to identify with this man. He is a horrible person. Someone I'd really hate to meet.

He is a stupid idiot: Attacking a high security prison with a friend and a couple of weapons only. He is a real bastard: Threatening his beautiful wife in a most despicable way. He is irresponsible: Leaving his children for a reckless whore.

The superb acting however keeps you interested, keeps you watching this mad person.

Violence is never funny in this movie. It is always horrible. It is no fun watching Mesrine and friends beating up some arabs, or killing some cops. It is not a justified act of revenge, when Mesrine gets tortured in prison.

Except for Depardieu the cast is brilliant. Cassel is so convincing in being a mad bastard. De France is really credible as his lover.

I did not like Mesrine. I didn't even really like the movie. But I was deeply impressed.

I was disturbed by the violence. Even though I do not have any problems with standard splatter movies.

But I felt like watching a true story.

"L'instinct de mort" is definitely a recommendation!

Awards:6 wins & 7 nominations

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Iraq in (Shrapnel) Fragments
by Scott Foundas
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Given the box-office fortunes of most Iraq-themed movies that haven't been directed by Michael Moore, I'm not sure if more than 10 people will want to see Kathryn Bigelow's The Hurt Locker, about a cadre of U.S. Army bomb experts patrolling the streets of Baghdad. That, however, will be the audience's loss. Bigelow's film may not be, in formal terms, as radical and innovative a work as Brian De Palma's Redacted, but it's nevertheless a unique and worthy addition to the canon of cinematic texts about the Iraq campaign — the first, I think, that really tries to understand what motivates the men (and in Bigelow's army, there are only men) who join a volunteer military in times of war. It also happens to be a first-class piece of visceral action moviemaking.

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There are few who are unfamiliar with the notorious
Polanski sex scandal of 1977 which led to him absconding from America prior to the start of the trial, never to return.
This recent documentary presents the case for both sides and leaves it to the viewer to determine the guilt or innocence of the legendary director.

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Japanese animator Kunio Kato’s 12-minute long anime short film “Tsumiki no Ie” (”House of Blocks”) became the second Japanese work to win the Annecy Cristal grand prize for short films at this year’s Annecy International Animated Film Festival and Market, held in Annecy, France. “Tsumiki no Ie” surpassed 45 other international short films to win the coveted Annecy Cristal and a Junior Jury Award. Animator Koji Yamamura’s short film Atama Yama (”Mt. Head”) won the Le Cristal d’Annecy award in 2003.

Anime fans may be most familiar with Kato as the creator of the 2003 “Diary of Tortov Roddle” (Aru Tabibito no Nikki) anime short film.

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Louis Theroux: Behind Bars

Sun 13 Jan, 9:10 pm - 10:10 pm 60mins

The BAFTA award-winning presenter returns with another in a set of occasional films, this time travelling to northern California to visit America's notorious San Quentin State Prison. Built in 1852, San Quentin is one of America's oldest prisons and suffers from chronic overcrowding. Although famous for its death row, the prison's main task is to house a transient population of 3,000 murderers, sexual predators and small-time criminals.

Louis spends two weeks with these inmates and quickly discovers that they inhabit a strange world-within-a-world with its own rules and its own brutal code of conduct. He meets, amongst others, David Silva who is serving 521 years and 11 life sentences and is locked down for 23 hours a day. Silva's crimes, as he describes them, 'would never be forgotten' and he talks of how he faces up to the prospect of never leaving prison.

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Is it possible for a photograph to change the world? Photographs taken by soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison changed the war in Iraq and changed Americas image of itself. Yet, a central mystery remains. Did the notorious Abu Ghraib photographs constitute evidence of systematic abuse by the American military, or were they documenting the aberrant behavior of a few bad apples? We set out to examine the context of these photographs. Why were they taken? What was happening outside the frame? We talked directly to the soldiers who took the photographs and who were in the photographs. Who are these people? What were they thinking? Over two years of investigation, we amassed a million and a half words of interview transcript, thousands of pages of unredacted reports, and hundreds of photographs.

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The plot is centered on a fish girl, or mermaid, who runs away from her home in the sea. She ends up stranded on the shore and is rescued by suke, a five year old boy who lives on a cliff. After taking a great liking to her, suke names her Ponyo and vows to protect her forever. Meanwhile, her father, Fujimoto, is looking for his daughter, upset that she ran away. He calls his wave spirits to return Ponyo to him. suke is heartbroken by this, and goes home with his mother, Lisa who tries to cheer him up, but to no avail.

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Eccentricity comes in many forms. In the case of perfectionist film-maker Stanley Kubrick, who died in 1999, they clearly informed his genius. This trawl by journalist Jon Ronson through the archives of Kubrick's St Albans estate reveals a shy, meticulous stationery-obsessive who was a "Catherine wheel of ideas and projects". In hundreds of catalogued cardboard boxes, Ronson finds screen tests, fan letters, mind-bogglingly detailed location research, and memos about cat collars and barometric pressure. The documentary is a cinéaste's dream, but the remoteness - even coldness - of its subject's technical masterpieces such as 2001: a Space Odyssey and Barry Lyndon remains, like the man himself, a compelling enigma.

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A documentary about the creation of University Paris VIII in Vincennes, following the events of May 68.

Another impressive documentary from the Education collection of Jean-Michel Carre. Issuing directly from the events of May 68 Le Ghetto is a reflection on the experimental university Vincennes that became Paris 8. The sequences of the drama courses will probably find fans in the confirmed zealots of Rivette's Out.

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“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
—Socrates

Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the streets...

In Examined Life, filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today’s most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas.

Peter Singer’s thoughts on the ethics of consumption are amplified against the backdrop of Fifth Avenue’s posh boutiques. Slavoj Zizek questions current beliefs about the environment while sifting through a garbage dump. Michael Hardt ponders the nature of revolution while surrounded by symbols of wealth and leisure. Judith Butler and a friend stroll through San Francisco’s Mission District questioning our culture’s fixation on individualism. And while driving through Manhattan, Cornel West—perhaps America’s best-known public intellectual—compares philosophy to jazz and blues, reminding us how intense and invigorating a life of the mind can be. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life reveals philosophy’s power to transform the way we see the world around us and imagine our place in it.

Featuring Cornel West, Avital Ronell, Peter Singer, Kwarne Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, Michael Hardt, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler and Sunaura Taylor.

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Variety wrote:

Mainland helmer Wang Quanan and his regular lead actress, Yu Nan, tread on largely familiar ground in "Tuya's Marriage," the tale of a reserved but determined young woman in Inner Mongolia and the various suitors in her life. Made with a scrupulous attention to the slow-moving realities of grasslands life but lacking in dramatic heft, colorfully lensed pic is the kind that has a small, readymade market in the West, especially in Europe where it's already been snapped up by a French distrib.

Yu essayed a very similar role in Wang's 2004 feature, "Jingzhe" (aka "The Story of Er Mei"), as a plucky peasant in dusty Shaanxi province who tries to break away from an arranged marriage. With realistic but flavorsome lensing by the same German d.p., Lutz Reitemeier, "Tuya" is a tighter work but less involving, lacking the previous pic's quiet humor. Neither film really builds on the major promise Wang showed in his 1999 debut, urban noir-ish mystery "Lunar Eclipse."

One day, Tuya (Yu), married with two young kids to the disabled Bater (Bater), collapses in the fields and is diagnosed with a lumbar dislocation. With a peasant's pragmatism, Tuya and Bater agree to divorce so she can find a fit and able husband to take care of both her and Bater.

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BBC documentary series on the fall of the Iron Curtain and its legacy.

1989 marked the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe and an end to a way of life for millions of people. Having lived through extraordinary times, they tell their stories of life behind the Iron Curtain, looking beyond the headlines of spies and surveillance, secret police and political repression, to reveal a rich tapestry of experience.

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"Left leaning, though somewhat apolitical, cabaret artists Carmela (Carmen Maura) and Paulino (Andres Pajares) agree to entertain the Republican troops at the Argon front during the Spanish Civil War. With them is Gustavete (Gabino Diego), an adolescent boy they rescued from a bombing attack earlier in the war. After stealing gasoline to escape the fighting, they are captured on their way to Valencia by the Fascists. When Gustavete, who now forms part of their act, mistakenly tells the Nationalists that they were coming from a town controlled bt the Communists, they are imprisioned. Certain to be shot, they are given a chance to live when a former theater director, now a lieutenant with the Italian troops fighting along with the Germans in support of Franco, asks them to put on a show glorifying Mussolini and Hitler. "

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One of the most ridiculous, absurd, excruciatingly unerotic and genuinely laugh-out-loud funny movies you'll ever see. Is this satire? Is it philosophy? Video art? Unappealing porno? Hour-long schadenfreude trip? It's all of these and so much more.

Final Flesh is a feature film produced in four parts: the script written by Vernon Chatman (PFFFR, Wondershowzen, Xavier:Renegade Angel) was divided up and submitted to four unique film production companies that work exclusively in the field of customized adult content. The companies' shared charter is to produce a film that explores the writer's chosen fetish - and with this in mind, Vernon wrote with demented determination, in order to push the definition of fetish into the realm of the cosmically absurd. Then he sat back to see what his charges would deliver. The resulting film is an epic narrative for our time. 'Final Flesh' is a surreal, apocalyptic 'My Dinner With Andre' - in other words, existential, sublime and ridiculous, featuring unmistakable porno production values and shudderingly unseasoned porno actors and actresses - but no actual sex.

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The powerful new film from acclaimed auteur Marco Bellocchio, VINCERE is a compelling drama based on the littleknown story of Benito Mussolini's first wife. Ida Dalser (Giovanno Mezzogiorno) and Mussolini (Filippo Timi) begin their liaison in 1914; she is a well-to-do beauty salon owner and he is an impoverished young Socialist and union activist. When Ida sells all her possessions to fund her lover's new newspaper, the rise of Fascism is set into play. An official selection of the Cannes, Toronto and Telluride Film Festivals, VINCERE is a gripping film that combines drama, archive footage, and music creating a highly cinematic oratorio of enormous emotional force. (IMDb)

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Polytechnique (2009) dir. Denis Villenueve
Starring: Maxim Gaudette, Karine Vanasse, Sébastien Huberdeau

Almost everyone in Canada of a certain age remembers where he or she was when they first heard about the Montreal Massacre. That day, Dec 6, 1989, a disgruntled and unstable young man, with hateful misogynistic fervour, took a gun into Montreal Polytechnique University and killed 14 female engineer students and injuring 14 more, before killing himself. It was an event not unlike the Columbine tragedy, or 9/11, which brought the nation together as every year since, on its anniversary, Dec 6 is commemorated as the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

All these years later, a cinema version of this story has been produced. With careful trepidation Denis Villeneuve’s film “Polytechnique” pays respect for the victims without sacrificing the needs of storytelling, creative license, and art.

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AMG: Adapted from the short story by author Eça de Queiroz, Manoel de Oliveira's poetic drama tells the tale of a beleaguered man named Macário (Ricardo Trêpa) who recounts his romantic woes to a patient neighbor (Leonor Silveira) during a train ride to the Algarve. While working as an accountant in Lisbon, Macário became smitten with the radiant blonde whose window he could spy from his modest office. Her name was Luisa (Catarina Wallenstein), but according to Macário's uncle she was well out of the humble accountant's league. Determined to win her love at all costs, Macário retreats to Cape Verde and attempts to earn enough money to be considered an acceptable suitor.

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Sára loves Márk and they are expecting a baby. He loves her as well, but he also loves Sophie. Sophie doesn’t like being cheated; she’d rather someone pampered her. That someone could be András, it’s just that he’s already pampering his wife, Rita. She in turn has a mercenary interest in caring for young Natasha, whom everyone would be happy to take advantage of. And what about Jimmy and especially Etele, who, by the way, has the hots for Sára? This group of contemporary Budapest inhabitants is bound together by complicated, mercenary relations, extorting emotions, and humiliating bonds of dependence. But then, in similar situations, men and women behave in different ways... His new project confirms director György Pálfi as an experimental provocateur. This highly cynical mosaic of alienating relationships came together in 20 days of improvisation by the filmmakers and nine amateur actors. A short documentary focusing on four-year-old preschoolers opens the movie – and of course, not even the little ones’ friendships could be described as idyllic...

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Plot : Catherine Breillat puts a new spin on an ancient story in this multi-leveled drama. In France in the mid-1950s, Catherine (Lola Creton) enjoys toying with her younger sister Marie-Anne (Daphne Baiwir) by reading her the story of the murderous and oft-married Bluebeard, embellishing the story with plenty of gore and scaring the child out of her wits. As Catherine rereads the story, we're taken back to the year 1697, as Lord Bluebeard (Dominique Thomas) prepares to make Marie-Catherine (also played by Creton) his seventh wife. Marie-Catherine's youth and innocence make her an especially attractive quarry to Bluebeard, and rather than murder her right away, he decides to wait a while in order to savor the terrible joy of claiming her life. However, as Bluebeard becomes caught in a cycle of events that keep him from following through on his wife's murder, the two slowly become something like a normal couple and Marie-Catherine begins to turn the tables on her spouse. Barbe Bleue (aka Bluebeard) received its world premiere at the 2009 ~Berlin International Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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