Tanti

Tanti (2011)

2011
February 3, 2021

Marcel is a Belgian businessman, he is forty years old and he is married to Laura. He develops a passion for her. The second passion is fixed on the street children, because he loves Romania where they abound and where some discretion is enough for pedophile beginnings. Laura is forced to accept for the sake of a supposed harmony of the household. Soon, Marcel finds that his marital balance has become unstable. She feels frustrated […]

The Heartbreak Kid

The Heartbreak Kid (1993)

1993

Christina (Claudia Karvan) is a school teacher from a wealthy Greek-Australian background, engaged to a lawyer and content with the traditional course of her life. She begins teaching at an inner-city working-class school and she finds her ideas challenged by the students. Involving herself in a campaign by a group of non-anglo students to form a soccer club in a school where the racist PE teacher only supports Australian Rules Football, Christina starts falling in […]

Brotherly Love (1970)

1970

In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O’Toole plays Sir Charles Henry Arbuthnot Pinkerton Ferguson, a mentally disturbed Scotsman, living on his uncared-for farm, who also harbors an incestuous yearning for his sister Hilary (Susannah York), who is staying with Sir Charles after a fight with her husband Douglas (Michael Craig). However, while at a local sheep auction, she encounters Douglas and realizes she still loves him. They agree […]

Prorva (1992) aka Moscow Parade

1992
February 2, 2021

Set in 1930s Moscow. About an aristocratic woman married to a member of Josef Stalin’s secret police who embarks on an affair with a baggage handler. In this free-wheeling drama, dozens of little dramas center around an affair between the wife of an NKVD official and a baggage handler she has met. The woman, a former aristocrat, is relatively safe in Moscow in 1930, even though Joseph Stalin is running the country since she is […]

The Ups and Downs of a Handyman (1976)

1976

A young handyman and his wife move to a small village and set up business. There, the handyman encounters numerous strange characters, including a local constable more inept than a squad car full of Keystone Kops; an elderly magistrate whose primary passion is spanking young women; a schoolmistress with a closetful of kinks; and more predatory housewives than the young man can handle.