Storms in Africa (aka Stürme in Afrika)
2009Invited to join her sister at the bedside of their father in the South-African bush, a woman misled by her husband falls in love with a gruff ranger.
Archives: Movies
Leaving
2009Suzanne is a well to do married woman and mother in the south of France. Her idle bourgeois lifestyle gets her down and she decides to go back to work as a physiotherapist. Her husband agrees to fix up a consulting room for her in their backyard. When Suzanne and the man hired to do the building meet, the mutual attraction is sudden and violent. Suzanne decides to give up everything and live this all […]
Summer ’04
2006Sommer ’04 is a character study of a family on vacation. German director Stefan Krohmer examines the emotional abyss and problems behind the seemingly nice facade of an intact family as they experience guilt, love and jealousy.
Down to the Bone
2004A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her offsprings and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.
The One and Only (aka Den eneste Ene)
1999When handyman Niller comes to install Sus’ new kitchen one day, their immediate crush is a sweet escape from both of their problematic relationships.
The Secret (aka Le Secret)
2000Marie, who works as a successful door-to-door encyclopedia salesperson, has been married to her husband Francois for 12 years and has a two-year-old son. Though she is relatively content with her life, she feels something is wanting. Enter 50-year old African-American Bill. Initially she is annoyed by his insouciance, but she finds that she is irresistibly attracted to him. Soon the two are in the midst of sordid illicit affair. She knows little about her […]
Happy End
1999Set during the 1999 Asian fiscal crisis Ki-Mun has lost his job and feels ashamed at having to act as domestic housekeepr for his career woman wife Bo-ra. Bo-ra feels trapped in a passionless marriage and is having an affair with a former college boyfriend. Min-ki gradually pieces together the evidence of Bo-ra’s infidelity, and is devastated by what he finds.
American Beauty
1999Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter’s attractive friend.
Intimate Obsession
1992Unsatisfied in her marriage, Rachel begins seeing Rick, unaware that her lawyer husband Tom is also having an affair. But she discovers that Tom hired Rick to seduce her, so that Tom could get grounds for a divorce.
Sunset Grill
1993Ryder Hart is a private investigator and former police officer who is down on his luck and drinks too much. His estranged wife Anita runs a bar and restaurant called the Sunset Grill and is romantically involved with a cop who worked with Hart.