Red Desert

1964
November 27, 2017

Amid the modern wastelands and toxic factories of Italy, wife and mother Giuliana (Monica Vitti) desperately tries to conceal her tenuous grip on reality from those around her, especially her successful yet neglectful husband, Ugo (Carlo Chionetti). Ugo’s old pal, Corrado (Richard Harris), shows up in town on a business trip and is more sensitive to Giuliana’s anxieties. They begin an affair, but it does little to quell Giuliana’s existential fears, and her mental state […]

Zwischen heute und morgen (2009) aka Between Today and Tomorrow

2009
November 6, 2017

The 40-year-old translator Anouk happens to meet Heiner, an architect, older than her, in Berlin. The couple plunges into a love affair a few days later. At stake are either their past lives, seemingly firmly established in two marriages, or a shared future that could begin that night. We are following two people who are suddenly faced with the decision to begin a new, possibly more intense and better life together – but at the […]