Hide and Seek (aka Amorous)

2014
October 21, 2018

In an English cottage, four young people from London move in together, seeking to challenge social conventions and their own tolerances by engaging in scheduled partner-swapping. The durability of their new living arrangements is tested by the arrival of an outsider who fails to get in tune with the foursome’s radical spirit.

Red Sorghum

1987

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.

The Enigma of the Yacht (aka El enigma del yate)

1983
December 4, 2017

Natalia and Carlos. Jorge and Blanca. Here are two couples about to go on a trip in a private yacht. It will serve as a treatment for Natalia, who has been suffering from various mental disorders in recent times. But soon after they are at sea, Jorge – who was Natalia’s psychologist and the boat’s skipper – turns up dead. The three remaining occupants are left at the mercy of fate.