Kiss of the Tarantula

Kiss of the Tarantula (1975)

1975

John Bradley, a mortician lives in a large house with his cold, heartless wife and daughter Susan, where he runs his business . He is unaware that his wife is having an affair with his very own brother and they plot to k..l him for life insurance money. His daughter Susan, who has a fascination with tarantulas on the other hand finds out and decides to teach her mother a lesson, which results in her […]

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 […]