Los perros

Los Perros (2017)

2017

Mariana, from Chilean upper class with nothing really to occupy her days besides signing the potentially shady business documents her father keeps funneling to her, takes up riding lessons. Neglected by her husband and despised by both her father and husband, she feels a strange attraction towards her older riding instructor, Juan. But when she learns that “Colonel” Juan is under investigation for Pinochet-era human rights violations, her attraction flares into fascination, and she determines […]

I'm Not Him

I Am Not Him (2013)

2013

He works in a kitchen in Istanbul. She is working with him. Her husband goes to jail. Nihat, an introverted employee in a hospital cafeteria, is confused by Ayşe, a mysterious woman who just started working there as a dishwasher. Her obvious seductive approaches embarrass Nihat and make him nervous at the same time. Despite the rumors about her husband having been sentenced to many years in jail, Nihat reluctantly accepts Ayşe’s invitation to dinner […]

Murmur of the Heart (1971)

1971

This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.

The Aftermath

The Aftermath (2019)

2019

Set in postwar Germany in 1946, Rachael Morgan (Keira Knightley) arrives in the ruins of Hamburg in the bitter winter, to be reunited with her husband Lewis (Jason Clarke), a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an unexpected decision: They will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower (Alexander Skarsgård) […]

Vier Tage Toskana (2008) aka Four Days in Tuscany

2008

Because the late Berlin artist Dorn failed to pay his taxes or inform the family for years, his widow Erika and daughters must urgently sell the splendid estate in Tuscany they hardly visited since his death anyhow. Eldest daughter Valerie, junior partner in fiancé Andreas Imdahl’s rising architects firm, travels ahead to negotiate with the suitable candidate Robert Beck, a fellow German, who agreed through mayor-publican Fredo to keep caretaker Antonio ‘Toni’ Gianni. By the […]