October 16, 2019
THE BEGINNING AND THE END (PRINCIPIO Y FIN)
DescriptionDescription Based on the novel by 1988 Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, Arturo Ripstein's monumental work is at once breathtakingly dramatic and heartbreakingly mundane. After the death of its patriarch, the Botero family is left forsaken. Widow Ignacia sends her three eldest children off to work and puts all of her hopes in Gabriel, her...
October 16, 2019
THE YOUNG LADIES OF WILKO (PANNY Z WILKA)
DescriptionDescription Noted director Andrzej Wajda is in fine form. After two political films that had problems at home but high popularity, his latest, The Young Ladies of Wilko, is a romantic period piece and a truly successful change-of-pace The film takes place in the late 20s with a Chekhovian atmosphere of longing, an attempt to...
October 16, 2019
WILD STRAWBERRIES (SMULTRONSTALLET)
DescriptionDescription The classic and poignant Wild Strawberries is one of the most admired, and most loved, of Ingmar Bergman's films its culminating effect of achieved serenity and fulfillment is unique. Wild Strawberries traces an aged professor's realization of the critical human choice between a life of selfishness or charity while on a day-trip with his...
October 16, 2019
WR: MYSTERIES OF THE ORGANISM
DescriptionDescription One of the most talked-about films in the world when first released, WR can be called The Crying Game of its era. As Variety remarked, "Yugoslav filmmaker Dusan Makavejev has brought,off a most unusual film built round the work of the late Wilhelm Reich, proponent of cosmic life, the energy of love, and the...
