Humberto Suárez (José Luis Gómez), an aging benefactor, wants to leave behind a legacy, something that will live on long after he has passed. He wants to produce the greatest movie ever. To do so, he enlists the prolific director, Lola Cuevas (Penélope Cruz), whose unique style has garnered her many prestigious awards from the…
Tag: International Cinema
Lost Illusions
Landing in Paris with dreams of publishing his poems and hardly a cent in his pocket, Lucien (Benjamin Voisin) meets Etienne (Vincent Lacoste) who works in a publishing house of a small newspaper. Lucien enters the world of journalism and discovers all the riches that can be had by people in power looking to buy…
The Long Walk
A boy (Por Silatsa) discovers a young woman (Noutnapha Soydara) laying in the weeds after a motorbike accident that would take her life. Afraid, he does not report the body and the woman is unable to be cremated so her spirit is bound to walk the earth. Fifty years later, the woman still visits the…
Purple Noon
Tom Ripley (Alain Delon) is on a mission to bring back playboy Philippe Greenleaf (Maurice Ronet) back to his home in San Fransisco. Philippe, however, has other plans as he galivants through Italy. He invites Tom on a boating trip with himself and Marge (Marie Laforêt), his girlfriend, but as Philippe’s antics grow more and…
Wet Sand
The Wet Sand Café sits on the waterfront of a Georgian beach, a regular haunt for the retired community that lives there. On the outside, it seems like an idyllic community, but when Eliko is discovered to have hung himself, secrets and prejudices begin to come to light as his granddaughter, Moe (Bebe Sesitashvili), enters…
Petite Maman
After the passing of her grandmother, a young girl, Nelly (Joséphine Sanz), assists her parents in cleaning out the matriarch’s old home. Full of grief, Nelly’s mother (Nina Meurisse) leaves her childhood home to be packed up by her husband (Stéphane Varupenne). Nelly grows bored in packing up the house and goes outside to play…
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
A love triangle between two friends. A seduction trap went awry. A chance encounter between two ex-lovers. These are the stories of love, anger, and loss that fill the screen in Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s anthology Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy, released in the USA by Film Movement after an acclaimed festival run. The film opens with…
The Invisible Thread
Simone (Francesco Scianna) and Paolo Ferrari (Filippo Timi) are a few nights away from celebrating their twentieth wedding anniversary. One evening, however, Paolo forgets his phone at the house and Simone intercepts some texts from a mysterious Ricardo (Mauro Conte) who has been having an affair with Paolo. While this is happening, their son, Leone…
Great Freedom
In the wake of World War II, Hans (Franz Rogowski), was liberated from a concentration camp only to be imprisoned so that he may serve out the rest of his sentence for being gay. While there, he forms a careful bond with his cellmate, Viktor (Georg Friedrich), serving his own sentence for murder. After Hans’…
The Marquee Topic 