Blood

Bl..d (2014)

February 22, 2022

Troubled young man Guy reaches out to his oldest friend Jonathon after the mysterious death of his younger sister Carrie, a visit to support a grieving friend soon takes a sinister twist as some very dark secrets come into light.

Couples et amants (1993)

Seemingly, Paul (Jacques Bonaffee) and Isabelle (Marie Brunel) have a wonderful, harmonious marriage. Yet Isabelle is not averse to having a little side action with another man in the afternoon, and Paul is really getting into his romance with one of his ophthalmic patients, a young woman who pursues him more than he pursued her. Even those little affairs might not indicate that there is much wrong with the marriage, but when Paul finds out […]

Flame Top

Flame Top (1980)

May 30, 2021

This biographical film celebrates the little-known life of the Finnish novelist and revolutionary Maiju Lassila (Asko Sarkola), born in 1868. Lassila’s early years are briefly shown, then the film richly details his active and paradoxically reclusive adult life, beginning with his sojourn in St. Petersburg, working as a businessman. Unable to stay away from politics, he caused the assassination of a high-ranking Czarist and as a result, had to run back to Finland to hide. Once established in the comparative safety of a small village, he taught school in order to support his real vocation as a writer. Always living on the edge of poverty, if not square in the middle of it, Lassila continues to avoid public contact – he keeps his identity low-key and camoflages it by publishing under a variety of pseudonyms.