Le Beauf

Le Beauf (1987)

September 3, 2023

Gilbert, assigned to incinerate old banknotes at the Bank of France, lives with his wife, Gisèle, and his young son, Thomas. A few years earlier, he had formed a rock band with Serge and Gisèle’s brother, Marc. The latter, abusing his naivety, make him believe that he has been robbed of a briefcase containing a million dollars and that, because of his fault, Marc is in danger of dying. The objective is to force Gilbert to put his incinerator out of order to facilitate the bank robbery. Gilbert refuses at first, then gives in. But he discovers that he has been cheated. To get revenge, he tells the police the date and time of the robbery.

Hitomi Kobayashi’s Secret Pleasure (1987)

September 3, 2023

Hitomi plays a woman whose husband is working overseas. Bored, she becomes a voyeur and exhibitionist. She starts leading a double life, housewife by day and seductress by night, enticing young boys into depraved sexual acts and role-playing. All is fine until one of the boys decides he has to keep her for his own and finds out where she lives……..

Killing Spree (1987)

A man suspects his wife of adultery and goes on a killing spree, eliminating all he believes are sleeping with her, but his victims don’t stay dead. Tom feels that his wife is cheating on him. It doesn’t take long for his paranoia to get the best of him and he begins to mu..er the men he thinks his wife is sleeping with. Tom has the most inventive and gruesome ways of dealing with these […]

Red Sorghum

An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu’er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as “my Grandpa” by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu’er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.