Save and Protect (1989)

1989
November 13, 2021

Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband’s botching of the operation on the stable boy’s clubfoot. The universality of the theme of eternal struggle between the soul and the flesh is conveyed through the absence of specific reference to time or place: although the film seems to begin […]

Love Knot (1995) aka Eleftheri katadysi

1995
November 13, 2021

Olga is a young pharmacist whο lives in the country in Chania, Crete in a confined and claustrophobic environment. Married and the mother of a child she will one day find herself face to face with her childhood sweetheart, Lefteris who has returned to his place of birth after a long absence, full of ambitions… They both share a tragic secret without, however, confessing, it to each other: they are brother and sister from a […]

The Hot Girl Juliet

The Hot Girl Juliet (1981)

1981
November 12, 2021

A woman visits her former lesbian lover who’s stuck in a boring marriage. They begin an affair. The lover’s husband and his best friend are also having affairs – with each other’s wives. The girls decide to seduce the other wife.

Canastra Suja

Canastra Suja (2016)

2016
November 12, 2021

Walking by with their three children, Batista and Maria look like their biggest problem is an autistic daughter. However, they have more complicated problems. Batista is an alcoholic fighting for rehabilitation. Maria is a devoted wife living a fiery affair with her daughter’s boyfriend, Emília, that poses as a prude but seduces her own boss. Pedro, the oldest, is lost when beginning adulthood. Among the plot, tied by moments of tension and surprise, the family […]