The Gallant Tales of La Fontaine

The Gallant Tales of La Fontaine (1980)

March 24, 2022

Four tales of Jean la Fontaine tell in a libertine way. The pleasure of infidelity is described in all forms: a woman seduced by her servant, a man seduce his servant, the wives of Messire Guillaume, and a bourgeois and a nun.

Flame Top

Flame Top (1980)

May 30, 2021

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868. Lassila’s early years are briefly shown, then the film richly details his active and paradoxically reclusive adult life, beginning with his sojourn in St. Petersburg, working as a businessman. Unable to stay away from politics, he caused the assassination of a high-ranking Czarist and as a result, had to run back to Finland to hide. Once established in the comparative safety of a small village, he taught school in order to support his real vocation as a writer. Always living on the edge of poverty, if not square in the middle of it, Lassila continues to avoid public contact – he keeps his identity low-key and camoflages it by publishing under a variety of pseudonyms.

The Woman Who Invented Love

The Woman Who Invented Love (1980) aka A Mulher Que Inventou o Amor

Doralice has sex with the butcher and discloses it to her roommate and friend. Her friend tells that she is a prostitute and convinces Doralice to prostitute with her in a fleshpot. Doralice dreams of getting married and is an enthusiastic fan of the soap-opera actor Cesar Augusto. But she becomes a famous prostitute known as The Queen of Moaning in Pleasure. When she meets the wealthy Doctor Perdigão, she becomes his mistress and quits […]