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 […]

Hard Car – Desiderio sfrenato del piacere (1989)

1989

This film revolves around a young woman (Valentine Demy) who is driven by her boyfriend to steal a disk with important information in the office and ends up being a witness to a murder. While driving on the road she is haunted by a mysterious red car and engages in many sexual adventures. Annie (Valentine Demy) witnesses, on CCTV, a murder of an unknown woman accidentally in the office of her lover. From then on […]

Mind Games

Mind Games (1989)

1989

Rita and Dana Lund’s marriage is in a crisis, Rita’s frustrated from being just a housewife. To save their marriage, they set out for a camping trip through California with their son. At a camping site they meet the hitch-hiker Eric, who befriends their son. Against Rita’s will, Dana takes him with them, not knowing that he’s a brutal psychopath who’ll force their son to participate in his nightly trips of vandalism.

Valmont (1989)

1989

France before 1789: When a widow hears that her lover is to marry her cousin’s daughter, she asks the playboy Valmont to take the girl’s virginity. But first, she bets him, with her body as prize, to seduce a virtuous, young, married woman. Set in Baroque France, a scheming widow and her lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman. The lover, Valmont, bets that he can seduce her, even though […]