October 16, 2019
THE LOVE LESSON
DescriptionDescription Seventeen years ago, two women made an agreement. Grace, a civil servant, would raise the son of Camille, a gallery owner-with the provisions that the three would live in close proximity and that the adoption be kept from the child forever. As the son, Christopher, grows older, however, some vague but true connection between...
October 16, 2019
LOVE’S DEBRIS (POUSSIERES D’AMOUR)
DescriptionDescription "This film is based on the deeply held conviction that everything we express through the voice is the 'product' of our quest for closer contact with another person, with love and every possible expression of love. In order to verify this fundamental idea, I invited singers to the Abbey of Royaumont, to create situations...
October 16, 2019
LUMIÈRE AND COMPANY (LUMIÈRE ET COMPAGNIE)
DescriptionDescription A lively tip of the hat to the pioneers of the moving picture, this film is an anthology of short pieces by forty contemporary filmmakers wt,o used a restored camera which had belonged to the Lumiere brothers to make their own "Lumiere" films. Thus, the filmmakers were required to work according to the same...
October 16, 2019
LUST AND REVENGE
DescriptionDescription Claudia Karvan plays bored, wealthy divorcee Georgina Oliphant, spoiled daughter of pharmaceutical tycoon George Oliphant. George urgently needs to reduce his company's profits for tax purposes, and decides to sponsor the creation of an ambitious bronze statue, 100% tax deductible, to be donated to a new wing of the National Gallery. When out-of-work Karl-Heinz...
October 16, 2019
EARTH
DescriptionDescription This movie is so beautiful and strange that those qualities alone recommend it. The hero is an exterminator-he specializes in killing the bugs that infest the red, rather Martian soil of a marvelous bleak stretch of Spanish countryside. Moreover, he thinks he's an angel: his head is forever in the stars; he confides wonderful...
October 16, 2019
LES ENFANTS MODELES
DescriptionDescription Two child models, like dolls, are being made up to perfection for the preparation of a large fashion shoot. Today's shoot requires that the two children kiss, forcing them to publicly face their adolescent insecurities.
October 16, 2019
THE LONE STAR LETTERS
DescriptionDescription Set in the tiny town of Sweetwater, Texas, The Lone Star Letters focuses on the life and times of the local post office staff whose personalities are anything but tiny. Chaos and local gossip ensues as undercover postal police man, Marty Stamp, falls in love with mail tampering temptress, Delia Pooch.
October 16, 2019
LOOKING FOR RICHARD
DescriptionDescription Ranging from New York's streets to the reconstructed Globe Theater in London, talking with everyone from strangers encountered by chance to scholars and celebrated actors, Pacino is the voluble, mercurial center of a film that ingeniously interweaves commentary on Shakespeare with analysis of, rehearsals for and key segments from a Richard Ill on film....
October 16, 2019
DYING TO GO HOME (MARTINHO POR CHEGAR A CASA)
DescriptionDescription Manuel, a Portuguese immigrant living in Amsterdam, wakes up in a cemetery and discovers he's a ghost. There's another ghost there: a Chinese man who tells him he will only find peace if he can get his bones back to his native land. This wouldn't be a problem if Manuel weren't invisible, inaudible and...
October 16, 2019
A DRIFTING LIFE (LUMENG HUACHUN)
DescriptionDescription Kun-cheng lives with his family on their poor but stable farm. When his wife dies suddenly in childbirth, he is left permanently embittered and fatalistic. He leaves the care of the farm and his children to his parents, and embarks upon an affair with a young widow. Several years pass in quiet discontent until...
