Aastha: In the Prison of Spring

1997

Aastha: In the Prison of Spring is a story of a lower middle class happy nuclear family. The wife gets involved in prostitution, owing to the not-so-good financial condition of the family. It is the story of the guilt that comes with the money and the cobweb that such a route entails that it’s quite an effort to come out of the profession once one enters it. Mansi and Amar have been married for years, […]

Crazy Sex

1976
February 27, 2019

Shaw Brothers super director Li Han-Hsiang was particularly masterful in two genres: erotica and classic Chinese tales. He combined these two loves in this two-part examination of lust. The first story is a more modern tale of sex, lies, and videotape. The second features an elderly jeweler’s adventures with his unsatisfied wife, a handsome neighbor, and the neighborhood bordello.

Happy, Happy (aka Sykt lykkelig)

2010
February 26, 2019

Family is the most important thing in the world to Kaja. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys, and who refuses to have sex with her because she “isn’t particularly attractive” anymore. Whatever. That’s life. But when “the perfect couple” moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check. Not only do these successful, beautiful, exciting people sing in […]

The Voyeur

The Voyeur

1994

A troubled college professor becomes obsessed with the idea that his emotionally distant wife is having an affair with his invalid father. At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed “Dodo” is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife, Silvia has just left him for another man. He wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. While visiting his bedridden father, Alberto he meets his dad’s very sexy live-in nurse, Fausta […]

The Architect

2016

When a couple sets out to build their dream house, they enlist the services of a visionary modernist architect, whose soaring ideas are matched only by his ego. The woman is swept away by this uncompromising creative artist whose personality provides a stark contrast to her practical husband’s. She is so taken she hardly notices the Architect is building HIS dream house.

Nina Takes a Lover

1995

When Nina’s husband goes off for a few weeks to work, she meets and starts seeing a photographer. This story is told as an interview by a journalist writing about adultery who is talking with both Nina and the photographer in separate interviews. Through him, we learn much about the couple and their attitudes on adultery.

Moment by Moment

Moment by Moment

1978

A Beverly Hills housewife (Lily Tomlin) has a beach affair with a young drifter often called Strip (John Travolta). Trisha Rawlings (Lily Tomlin) is a wealthy, middle-aged Beverly Hills socialite who is getting a divorce from her philandering husband Stu (Bert Kramer). One day at a pharmacy, she meets Vick “Strip” Harrison (John Travolta), an indigent, suave young drifter whom she met briefly in the recent past when he worked as a car valet. He […]