Archives: Movies

Crystal River (2008)

April 1, 2021 Cheating, Cheating Wife, English Language, Incomplete Cheating, Little to No Erotic Value, USA/Canada

The story is of a married woman who, grieving her inability to have offsprings, finds comfort and healing in her friendship with another man. It’s about discovering grace in darkness and the unexpected places we find healing. Villagers Paul and Davie Nance would be perfectly happy, except for four consecutive miscarriages. She transfers her nursing side to Baptist parish volunteer work. Thus she cares for grumpy, sickly, infidel old neighbor, Olin Arrendal, better than the […]

Funny Games

Funny Games (2008)

March 15, 2021 English Language, Europe/World, USA/Canada

When Ann, husband George, and son Georgie arrive at their holiday home they are visited by a pair of polite and seemingly pleasant young men. Armed with deceptively sweet smiles and some golf clubs, they proceed to terrorize and tor..re the tight-knit clan, giving them until the next day to survive.

Three Monkeys

Three Monkeys (2008)

March 5, 2021 Europe/World

A family battles against the odds to stay together when small lies grow into an extravagant cover-up. In order to avoid hardship and responsibilities that would otherwise be impossible to endure, the family chooses to ignore the truth, not to see, hear or talk about it. But does playing “Three Monkeys” invalidate the truth of its existence?

Elegy

Elegy (2008)

February 19, 2021 English Language, USA/Canada

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life — which he indicates is a state of “emancipated manhood” — thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

Summer Heat

Summer Heat (2008)

January 26, 2021 Europe/World

Photographer Bob loses his girlfriend. A year later he meets Kathleen. Is she in love? Or does she use him for her dark dealings with the mafia?

Once Upon a Time in the Provinces

Once Upon a Time in the Provinces (2008)

December 2, 2020 Europe/World

Sex, alcohol and violence define the people of a city in defeat in this downbeat drama from writer and director Katya Shagalova. As a teenager, Nastia (Yulia Peresild) was the star of a popular television series, but now her career is in decline and her father, an officer in the Russian army, has kicked her out of the house.

Death in Love

Death in Love (2008)

October 26, 2020 English Language, USA/Canada

Death in Love is a psychosexual-thriller about a love affair between a Jewish woman and a doctor overseeing human experimentation at a Nazi German concentration camp, and the impact this has on her sons’ lives in the 1990s.