Thursday, August 29, 2013

Drama: El sur aka The South 1983


This film tells the story of a little girl (Sonsoles Aranguren) living somewhere in the north of Spain and fascinated by the secrets of the south seemingly buried in the traits of her father (Omero Antonutti). In her childhood, Estrella's father is a mysterious world. Growing up, she finds out that he once had a sweetheart (Aurore Clément), and that he's still in love with her.In another words El Sur (The South) is the story of Estrella (Iciar Bollain), a little girl from Southern Spain who has been uprooted to the North. Estrella maintains a sentimentalized attachment to the region of her birth, an attachment manifested in her love for her father (Omero Antonutti).

The girl's rose-colored memories are shattered when she learns that her beloved dad once carried on affair with a Southern woman-and that the flames of passion still smolder within him. This Spanish/Argentinian coproduction was filmed on location in Madrid, Navarre, Vittoria, and Zamora

flesh + blood 1985 : Watch between the scenes!



In 1501, a city in Italy has been taken by a coup d'état while its rightful ruler, Arnolfini (Fernando Hilbeck), is away. Arnolfini promises mercenaries 24 hours of looting if they succeed in retaking the city, and they do so.But in the middle of their revelry, Arnolfini wants them gone. Hawkwood (Jack Thompson), the commander of his troops, is caring for a young nun he mistakenly attacked during the siege. Arnolfini promises to get her medical attention and Hawkwood leads Arnolfini's cavalry, betraying his former lieutenant, Martin (Rutger Hauer). The cavalry ejects the mercenaries from the city without their loot.Soon after, Martin's son is stillborn. Burying the infant unearths a wooden statue of Saint Martin of Tours - a saint with a sword. The mercenaries' cardinal takes this as a sign from God to follow Martin as their new leader.Arnolfini's son, Steven (Tom Burlinson), is betrothed to Agnes (Jennifer Jason Leigh). They meet for the first time and eat from a mandrake to magically stay in love, but the entourage is then attacked and robbed by Martin's band. Arnolfini is seriously injured, and Agnes is hauled away, hidden among her valuable dowry.Martin discovers Agnes later that evening when they strip the caravan of its valuables. The men seek to gang rape her but Martin decides to take her himself. He rapes her, but she taunts him, and later starts flirting with him, hoping for his protection.The mercenaries encounter a castle whose inhabitants are suffering from the Plague. They capture the place with ease, with the help of Agnes. She induces Martin to fall in love with her and the other mercenaries to accept her among them. She seems to have given up on her former life.But Steven is determined to win her back and turns to Hawkwood. Hawkwood only wants to live a quiet life, married to the former nun he had injured. Steven, becoming as ruthless as his father, seizes the nun to force Hawkwood to help him pursue Martin. They locate Martin and the mercenaries. They do not have sufficient forces to retake their castle but lay siege to it. Inside the castle, Martin asks Agnes where her true loyalty lies; she is noncommittal but hints that the winner takes all.When Steven builds a siege tower to storm the castle, Martin destroys it with an idea Steven had tried earlier: gunpowder. The stalemate is broken when the Plague spreads among Steven's forces and infects Hawkwood. The mercenaries capture Steven and shackle him in their courtyard. Agnes joins in the abuse of the captive and even makes love to Martin in his presence.Using a new medical technique Steven had learned, Hawkwood cures his plague.

He cannot continue the siege but, before leaving to get additional troops, he catapults pieces of an infected dog into the castle. One chunk lands near the chained Steven, who flings it into the castle's water well. Agnes sees this and Steven says she must decide whether to tell the mercenaries.Most of the mercenaries wish to leave the castle out of fear of the Plague, but Martin convinces them to stay. At the next meal, Agnes watches as they drink the infected water. But when Martin begins to drink, she slaps the cup from his hands. The other mercenaries soon show signs of the Plague and hurl Martin into the well. As she did before with Steven, Agnes joins in the abuse of Martin.Hawkwood and Arnolfini have now recovered from their wounds and return with an army. Inside the castle, Steven needs Martin's key to escape his shackles, but Martin needs Steven to get out of the well. The two briefly cooperate, but on seeing the besieging army, Martin flees to the belfry. Steven frees himself and, as the final battle rages, races to find Agnes. During the fighting, the belfry catches fire. Before long, all the mercenaries except Martin are dead.Martin confronts Agnes. She says she still loves him, but he prepares to murder her rather than risk her going back to Steven. Before he can, Steven attacks. Martin, a cunning and hardened mercenary, overpowers Steven. He almost drowns him when Agnes strikes Martin over the head, and she and Steven flee the blazing castle and reunite with Hawkwood.Agnes and Steven embrace, but over Steven's shoulder, Agnes sees Martin escaping from the castle, a sack of loot over his shoulder. She says nothing.

Les anges exterminateurs sexual nice movie 2006



François, a filmmaker, is about to turn a thriller.He passed tests for a nude scene with an actress reveals her pleasure in the transgression of minor erotic taboos. Driven by the desire to bring something new to the cinema, he decides to stage a movie mid-fiction half reality, turning around what appears unexpectedly an enigma and a taboo: the minor transgressions give pleasure. His research into eroticism raises to substantive issues, like Icarus approaching the sun, it will burn the wings..Les Anges Exterminateurs (English: Exterminating Angels) is a 2006 French film directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau. It was screened at the Cannes Film Festival on 20 May 2006 and had a limited release in the United States on 7 March 2007. The film is about a director named François who embarks on a film project about female eroticism.
He meets three struggling actresses who perform sexual acts in front of him. What François does not realise is that there is a lot more going on in the girls' heads than other parts and this leads to tragic consequences. The film is semiautobiographical: in 2002 director Brisseau had been arrested on charges of harassment, fined and given a suspended one-year prison sentence. The plaintiffs were three women who had performed sexual acts in front of him during their audition.The soundtrack for the film was composed by Jean Musy.

Le Calde Notti Di Don Giovanni 1971 another nice one for Edwidge Fenech


The fame acquired by the irresistible seducer Don Juan Tenorio noble Sevillian raises concerns and reactions from the most influential Spanish families, who are able to obtain their exile in the East. Here Don Giovanni fastens friendly relations with Selim, Sultan of the Berbers, who reveals that, in a closed inaccessible castle of Morocco, lives a beautiful princess, Aisha, the daughter of Omar, head of the tribes of the Rif irredentist Excited by the difficulty of 'enterprise and by the magnificent beauty of the princess, Don Giovanni leaves for the castle and manages to seduce the attractive castle, but then falling prisoner of Omar, which would force him to marry his daughter. Emasculation sentenced for his refusal, Don Giovanni is saved by the Queen of Cyprus.
Soon thereafter, however, the unscrupulous seducer is forced to a hasty escape to avoid the marriage with his savior..in another words Don Giovanni is driven out from Seville for having dishonored his wife and daughter of a local nobleman. The leopard can not change its spots: first seduces a nun, then a Berber princess.i think Delightful film Boccaccio mold setting in the east with a plot that does not get bored and two splendid Bouchet and Fenech.Peccato that the director has not pushed the film on a eroticism a little 'more' pushed.

Saturday, August 24, 2013

La Reine Margot french nice movie 1994


La Reine Margot is a 1994 French period film directed by Patrice Chéreau, based on the 1845 historical novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas, père. It stars Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Virna Lisi and Vincent Pérez. An abridged version of the film was released as Queen Margot in North America, and in the United Kingdom under its original French title.The film was a box office success, grossing $2,017,346 in the United States when given limited theatrical release as well as in other countries such as Germany where it gained 260,000 admissions and Argentina where it received 530,800. The film also had a total of 2,002,915 admissions in France.It won the Jury Prize and Best Actress Award at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, as well as five César Awards. It was later shown as part of the Cannes Classics section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
During the late 16th century, Catholics and Protestant Huguenots are fighting over political control of France, which is ruled by the neurotic, hypochondriac King Charles IX (Jean-Hugues Anglade), and his mother, Catherine de' Medici (Virna Lisi), a scheming power player. Catherine decides to make an overture of goodwill by offering up her daughter Margot (Isabelle Adjani) in marriage to Henri de Bourbon (Daniel Auteuil), a prominent Huguenot and King of Navarre, although she also schemes to bring about the notorious St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572, when thousands of Protestants are slaughtered. The marriage goes forward but Margot, who does not love Henri, begins a passionate affair with the soldier La Môle (Vincent Pérez), also a Protestant from a well-to-do family. Murders by poisoning follow, as court intrigues multiply and Queen Catherine's villainous plotting to place her son the Duke of Anjou (Pascal Greggory) on the throne threatens the lives of La Môle, Margot and Henri of Navarre. A book with pages painted with arsenic is intended for Henri but instead causes the slow, agonizing death of King Charles. Henri escapes to Navarre and sends La Môle to fetch Margot, but Guise apprehends him. La Môle is beheaded in the Bastille before Margot can save him, and King Charles finally dies. Margot escapes carrying La Môle's embalmed head as Anjou is proclaimed King of France as Henry III.

Friday, August 23, 2013

Walkabout 1971 nice movie!


A teenage schoolgirl (Jenny Agutter) and her much younger brother (Luc Roeg) become stranded in the wilderness after their father (John Meillon) goes berserk. After driving them far into the Australian outback for a picnic, the father suddenly begins shooting at his children. When they run behind rocks for cover, he sets the car on fire and shoots himself in the head. The girl conceals what has happened from her brother. After salvaging what she can, the pair head out into the desert.
By the middle of the next day, they are weak, and the boy can barely walk. Discovering a small pool with a fruiting tree, they spend the day playing, bathing, and resting. Next morning, the pool has dried up. An Aboriginal youth (David Gulpilil) appears. Though the girl cannot communicate with him, her brother mimes their need for water, and the newcomer cheerfully shows them how to draw it from the drying bed of the oasis.The three travel together for several days, with the Aborigine sharing food he has caught hunting. The boys learn to communicate, using words and mime. While the Aborigine goes hunting, the girl swims naked in a deep pool.A change of scene shows a research team working in the desert, with all the men attracted to the only woman. One of them carelessly loses a weather balloon, which is later found by the three young wanderers. In the extended version of the film, one scene depicts a Caucasian woman walking past the Aboriginal boy, speaking to him, and spotting the other children. They do not see her, however.
 When the boy does not reply, the woman continues walking over a ridge to a plantation. There, a white man is seen roughly directing a group of Aboriginal children, who are making souvenir plaster statuettes and other things. He calls a break and enters the house, where the woman awaits him on a bed.The older boy guides the siblings to a deserted farm. He discovers a paved road while collecting sticks in the forest, and excitedly shows the brother. Soon afterward, he hunts down a water buffalo and is wrestling it to the ground when two white hunters nearly run him over in a truck. He watches them shoot several buffalo with a rifle. He returns to the house, catching the girl dressing. He courts her with an intense, silent dance. Although he dances outside all day and into the night until he becomes exhausted, she cannot understand the nature of his dance.In the morning, the brother wakes his sister and tells her their companion is gone. After they wash and dress in their school uniforms, the brother takes her to the Aborigine's body, hanging in a tree. Not fully comprehending death, the boy offers the body his pen-knife. Before leaving, the girl wipes ants from the dead boy's chest.Hiking up the road, the siblings find a nearly deserted mining town, where they are met by a surly white man who tells them of a place they can stay.Years later, a businessman arrives at the home of the now grown-up girl; while he relates office gossip, she daydreams, imagining a scene in which she, her brother, and the Aborigine are playing and swimming naked in the deep pool in the outback.

So popular : Los aires dificiles 2006


Juan Olmedo was always in love with the voluptuous Charo. Since their teenage years, he felt a terrible attraction. Juan's brother Damian also had his eyes set in the beautiful woman and ended marrying her. Charo, not happy in her marriage, seeks out Juan for an adventure that turned to be too much for both of them. When Charo died in a terrible accident, Juan's life was changed completely.

Now living on a beach town in the South of Spain, Juan has brought his mentally challenged brother Alfonso and Charo's daughter, Tamara, to get away from Madrid. Tamara, who could also be Juan's daughter, is happy with the new arrangement. Juan discovers he has an interest for his own housekeeper Maribel.

Little are we prepared when Nicanor, a policeman, who was Damian's best friend appears on the scene with questions for Juan about Damian's death under strange circumstances.The film is based on a novel by Almudena Grandes, which we have not read. Gerardo Herrero, a prolific producer of some mega hits like "The Secret in Their Eyes", "The Son of the Bride", among others, likes to direct. Since he is a man with influential friends, he gets to be at the helm of any project he decides to tackle. Unfortunately, his film making is rather dull, something that the screenplay by Angeles Gonzalez Since, who was the Spanish minister of culture and Alberto Macias, her co- writer, cannot enhance in this venture. As usual with the Spanish cinema, the scripts lack the originality they should have. So when there are no good ideas, everybody ends up in bed having torrid sex.Juan Luis Garcia Perez appears as Juan, the man with a dark secret in his heart. Cuca Escribano shows up as Maribel, Juan's housekeeper. Carme Elias makes a sophisticated Sara, the neighbor, but her role makes little sense as the viewer never knows what she is doing among this mess. Pilar Castro plays Charo and Roberto Enriquez is Damian.The film was shot in the beautiful area of Cadiz.

Monday, August 19, 2013

Il fischio al naso aka The Seventh Floor: Old Italian Comedy


The Seventh Floor (Italian: Il fischio al naso) is a 1967 Italian comedy film directed by and starring Ugo Tognazzi. It was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.
A successful business man occasionally develops an unusual physical disturbance: his nose whistles, whenever he breathes. Because of this peculiar circumstance, he enters a private, luxurious hospital. The whistle is cured, but new problems, real or unreal, are discovered by the hospital's staff. The man loses his confidence and vitality progressively. In a steady progression, he is first requested, then forced to move from one floor to another.
Each floor is less elegant than the lower one, the staff is less appealing and courteous, the independence of the man reduced. At last, he has only the caring company of his lover to comfort him, amidst the indifference of his family.

French Drama: Polisse 2011 Movie hiting some festivals


At the Cannes Film Festival, Jordan Mintzer of The Hollywood Reporter compared the film to "a whole season of The Wire packed into a single two-hour-plus film, ... and even with its loose threads and frenzied structure, it convincingly jumps from laughter to tears and back again, never losing sight of the brutal realities at its core." In Screen Daily's review from the festival, Jonathan Romney called Maïwenn "undeniably a very strong director of actors, especially when it comes to the delicate scenes involving the various children. She's less adept, though, at judging what is dramatically essential and what is surplus to requirements". The film won the Cannes Film Festival's Jury Prize.Peter Bradshaw from the Guardian newspaper was much less positive. He described the film as "a strong contender for the most awful film of the competition" and "much of it feels like a pretty dodgy evening in front of the television: less The Wire, more The Bill. But I don't think any director of The Bill would have permitted the toe-curlingly embarrassing overacting we get in this movie".Peter Schöning, defined in his review for German Der Spiegel "Poliss(e)" as "a cry for help which became a film." ("Poliezei", das ist ein Film gewordener Hilferuf...)

He added this was "not merely because of the abused children and young delinquents whose cases Maïwenn mentions in her film without showing pictures of them..." (Nicht nur der kindlichen Missbrauchsopfer und jugendlichen Missetäter wegen, deren Fälle Maïwenn in ihrem Film zur Sprache bringt, ohne sie im Bild selbst vorzuführen...) but "...as well because of those policemen who have to enforce the law but moreover have to perform a great deal of social work - hereby permanently being overstrained." (... auch aufgrund jener Polizisten, die zwar der Strafverfolgung dienen, vor allem aber Sozialarbeit leisten - und dabei durchweg überfordert sind.) He concludes: "Despite all the ugly things told in this film Polisse has a beauty which derives from its pursuit of truthfulness." ("Poliezei" besitzt bei all dem Hässlichen, von dem der Film zu berichten hat, eine Schönheit, die aus seinem Streben nach Wahrhaftigkeit stammt). Spiegel Online supplemented this review by an in-depth interview with the film's director.The film centres on the Child Protection Unit (Brigade de Protection des Mineurs) of the Paris Police, and a photographer who is assigned to cover the unit. The title is a childish spelling of the word "police". The film won the Jury Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and in 2012, was nominated for thirteen César Awards.

Friday, August 16, 2013

Spanish: The Ages of Lulu 1990

The Ages of Lulu (Spanish: Las edades de Lulú) is a 1990 Spanish film, directed by Bigas Luna, starring Francesca Neri. Javier Bardem has a small role as a corrupt gay man, one of his first roles on screen. Ángela Molina rejected the role for the sex scenes. The film is the version of the international best-selling novel with the same name written by Almudena Grandes. María Barranco won the Goya Award as Best Supporting Actress for her role as a transsexual prostitute. Francesca Neri is dubbed into Spanish by another actress.
The film was cut in the UK by two minutes and 55 seconds by the BBFC. These cuts include an S&M orgy at a gay club being shortened, a man sexually touching Lulu and a sex scene; these scenes were restored for the 2002 DVD release. In addition to these cuts an opening scene were Lulu is baptised was cut as Lulu's vagina is exposed to camera; this shot is considered to be in breach of the Protection of Children Act 1978. The 2002 UK DVD required 1:15 cuts for baptism scene; a new title sequence was used instead.

Austria: Antares 2004 Strange one


A devastating car accident forces a nurse (Petra Morzé), a supermarket checkout girl (Susanne Wuest), and a high-strung real-estate agent (Andreas Kiendl) to come to terms with their true longings and needs while searching for love and human contact in Austrian filmmaker Götz Spielmann's stark and sexual drama. Though their lives couldn't be more different, it only takes one act of sudden and unexpected tragedy to bring three lost souls into contact and forever alter the course of their lives. Over the next three days, each of these previously unconnected individuals will learn not only the value of time, but the true motivations that drive them and the effects that their actions can have even on those they might have never considered.Antares is one of the brightest stars in the Scorpius constellation and due to its reddish appearance it has been attributed with passion and intricate relationships, helpless sexuality, as well as its vehement feelings or emotions that can trigger passionate actions that can lead to frenzy and self-destruction.The film starts with a shocking and unexpected taxicab accident. This tragic accident takes Tomasz straight to the hospital where Eva -a married woman- works as a nurse. Tomasz and Eva are seeing in a several lustful scenes and their affair deepens when Eva has some marital problems.At the same time, there is another couple in some way connected to the other one, and being a portent of what will happen next. Sonja is a young woman working in the local supermarket as a cashier. Her insecurities and possessiveness will make her always jealous of her boyfriend Marco that works posting billboards around the city. She is pretending to be pregnant just to keep him with her.

Marco is always reserved and gives Sonja reasons to be jealous. He is in fact involved with Nicole, a divorced-single-mom who is trying to move on in her life away from her former husband Alex, which is obsessed with her and is unable to accept her decision to start her life all over again; his ruthless and unhappiness will make everyone is miserable. One way or another, the couples are connected in a deceitful love triangle. The tension and a state of uncertainly is a result of living a double life. Eva and Tomasz relationship is marked with strong emotions, explicit imagery and very implicit sex scenes. Eva would get deep in a life of sexual desire, intrigue and lies as a response to the lack of affection from her husband Alfred. Her desire for love and excitement would make her look for something different.Although Eva and Alfred seem to have a very stable marriage with a high sense of unity and responsiveness with their daughter and the house chores, their feelings and communication are gone. They would eventually break apart and their daughter would get in a state of desolation that makes her continuously get away from the house. Eva finds in Tomasz an escape and the rebirth of her sexuality bringing back her passion and sensitivity.She learns that Tomasz is married too, but she doesnt care, since this relationship awakens her to a new life where monotony and unhappiness have no place. She would put herself first in her quest of finding the enjoyment in life but it wont prevent to damage her family as a result.The young couple in the other hand is casual, especially in Marcos mind. His carelessness would prevent him to start a family. Sonja is running against time since her lie can be exposed anytime. She would desperately try to get pregnant before he realizes and leaves her. Her possessive personality scares away Marco and makes the relationship quite chaotic. Their disorganized life would lead them to continuous fights and jealousy. This turbulent relationship would have almost a tragic and dramatic end, when she finds out that Marco is secretly seeing Nicole.

Nicole at the same time has to deal day by day with the visits of her ex-husband Alex. Alex cannot accept that she is completely moved on with their relationship and wont stop until he gains her back. His deceptions, misery and ill-temper would bring many violent actions that would many people upset. He would try to prove to Nicole that he has changed and that he would treat her with more respect, promising her not to hurt her again.His lies are exposed when he attempts to convince Nicole about being the perfect husband; this does nothing but put her in emotional distress and fears when in her apartment he forces her to listen to him. He tries hard to portrait a good image, but he is betrayed by his unpredictable personality, to the point of being violent towards her.That same night Marco went to see her and Alex confronted him punching him on the face. She would make him leave threaten him with calling the police. Enraged, he leaves her apartment crashing his car against the other cars parked in the parking lot, once leaving the building; he drives like a maniac through the streets, he gets distracted passing a red light and crashing against a taxicab starting the vicious circle of their lives.

Thursday, August 15, 2013

Tendres Cousines 1980 nice and sexy movie


 The story beings on July 5, 1939. The film opens with narration by Julien, who states he is going on 15, and that he is in love with his cousin Julia, and that Julia's younger sister, Poune, is in love with him. His self-obsessed sister Claire is about to marry for money. He lives with his mother who has taken on boarders due to financial difficulties: a german professor who fled the Nazis, his daughter, and a fading actress, Clementine.Julien constantly tries to win the attention of Julia, whilst Poune tries to win the attention of him. Julien gives Julia a Swiss army knife as a gift, though she shows little interest in it. She later gives it to Poune. Claire's fiancé, Charles, shows interest in Julia. The professor continues his experiments into capturing a soul, whilst his daughter encourages Julien to pursue Julia. Julia writes of her interest in Charles in her diary, and talks of her pity for Julien, who she hopes will find a woman. Julien later confronts Julia and protests her friendship with Charles, to no avail.Julia and Charles court but she rejects his sexual advances. Claire questions Charles about his relationship with Julia; Charles pleads ignorant. Mathilde, one of the maids, makes sexual advances on Julien, and Juliens mother catches her naked in Juliens bed. Mathilde is sent away and is replaced by Madeleine. Charles immediately pursues Madeliene, and arranges a time for the two of them to meet alone. Poune overhears and tells Julien, who promptly sends Julia a letter pretending to be Charles and asking her to meet at the same time and place.

Julia catches Charles having sex with Madeliene and is furious at him. Clementine comforts Julia.The following day is Julia's 16th birthday party. The partygoers leave early; however, after is it discovered that Germany has declared war. Charles, the male servants, and Julien's father leave the home to go to war. The absence of the men creates extra work for Julien, the professor and the women. Julien, focused on work, loses interest in Julia. Clementine is informed she will have to leave the following week as her room has been rented. Exhausted from the previous days work, Julien falls asleep in the hay and is awoken by Justine, one of the female servants. Justine asks Julien to undress her and then has sex with him.The next day the woman are preparing breakfast for Julien. Justine attempts to take it to him however one of the other servants insists it is her turn. Julien is next seen kissing the naked servant girl. He coerces her into performing oral sex on him. Julia walks in on Julien and the servant girl. Julia slaps Julien in the face upon finding them; Julien replies that it is none of her business. Later Poune gives the Swiss army knife back to Julien, telling him that they are no longer friends.Julia tells Clementine she has decided to leave with her. Clementine tries to talk her out of it. Julien approaches Julia. The two argue; Julien tells Julia he is ashamed that he used to love her. The two fight, then wrestle on the ground before slowing down and eventually kissing. In the final scene Julien and Julia are lying naked together in the hay. Julia asks if he will give her the Swiss army knife again. In a cocky voice, Julien replies "Yeah sure, baby, sure" as he puts his clothes back on. Julia replies, "Don't speak to me like that." Julien replies in the same tone "OK, baby." Julia slaps him in the face, and the screen freeze frames on Julien's shocked expression.

La ragazza con la pistola aka Girl with a Pistol 1968 old comedy but funny


The Girl with the Pistol (Italian: La ragazza con la pistola) is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Monica Vitti won the David di Donatello as Best Actress.This wry comedy finds the beautiful Assunta (Monica Vitti) being kidnapped by Vincento (Carlo Giuffre) and taken to his remote home in the country. He plans to "dishonor her" and by doing so, win her hand in marriage. In a hilarious turn of events, Assunta willingly gives in to the amorous advances of Vincento. Finding him to her liking, the innocent girl suddenly turns into an insatiable sex fiend who causes the exhausted abductor to flee for his life. Assunta escapes, but the taunting of the local villagers causes her to leave and pursue the fleeing Vincento. She tracks him down to Britain and sheds her country-girl image for a mod makeover in order to fit into the blue-blooded London society. She plans to murder Vincento until she meets a divorced physician.

She and Dr. Osborne (Stanley Baker) fall for each other, and the jilted Assunta is content to slap Vincento rather than shoot him to death. After looking for a long time I was finally able to get a decent VHS copy of this movie which I had never seen.For me it completes my collection of all of Stanley Baker's theatrical movies.Sicilian Monica Vitti is "wronged" by her boyfriend who then decamps from her to London.Monica gets a pistol and pursues him with revenge on her mind.The movie is then a series of encounters with various characters who help her find then lose then find the debaucher.Stanley Baker, who turns up about halfway through the movie as a surgeon is her last connection. The denouement is a little twisty and provides a satisfactory ending.
This is an odd film in which to find Baker. He was a major star but he probably just did it for the money if he wasn't being offered more substantial roles.

Monday, August 12, 2013

Poor Vs Rich: Los santos inocentes aka The Holy Innocents (1984)


The Holy Innocents (Spain), directed by Mario Camus, is based on a novel by Miguel Delibes. The setting is rural Spain during the 60s. Don Pedro supervises the large farm estate owned by a rich marchioness who resides in Madrid. Paco and his family, a son and two daughters (one of them a brain damaged cripple), live on the estate in a small stone hut.
The film slowly reveals how this laborer and his loved ones — including Azarias, the feeble minded brother of Paco's wife — are exploited and patronized by Don Pedro and Ivan, the son of the marchioness. The children grow up shamed by the shabby treatment of their parents and scornful of the wealth, power and sexual games of those who control their destinies.

Francisco Rabal, who plays Azarias, won the Best Acting Award at Cannes for his performance in The Holy Innocents. He is the only character in the story in touch with the land and its rhythms and mysteries. His love for a pet goshawk callously shot down by Ivan fuels the one genuine protest against the manipulations of the upper class. Rabal is reminiscent of Zorba the Greek — he is a robust individualist whose very presence on the estate in an offense to the effete, vain and emotionally bankrupt landowners. I hope you watch it because it is a nice movie

Friday, August 9, 2013

Classe mista 1976 Not bad comedy!



Tonino is a high school student, in love with the new teacher of letters. While Tonino daydreams her teacher, he consoles himself, however, in the bed of widowed aunt.One day Tonino and the teacher are both kidnapped and locked up in a trullo , where he will finally be able to highlight their love. One day, however, the Moretti is transferred to Rome , and in the class of Tonino comes a beautiful new teacher.The film is shot - almost everything - really Trani . It should be noted that this is the first " Italian comedy "set in this city and in this same school building located on the seafront Christopher Columbus will be followed by many others in the space of a decade.
The following year, in fact, the same director Mariano Laurenti will shoot the film The classmate : in fact the continuation of mixed class.The boys Class Mixed waiting for the bus in Piazza Plebiscito and stopping in front of the ' Upim of Republic Square (now in its place is Costco ). Some scenes were filmed in nearby Bisceglie. the is Directed by Mariano Laurenti and is Write by Franco Mercuri, Francesco Milizia (screenplay), Starting : Dagmar Lassander, Gianfranco D'Angelo, Femi Benussi, i recommend to remember this movie and watched again.

Charlotte For Ever 1986 : Low Budget one and bad story!


Stan is a successful script writer running out of steam, struggling to get his new script written. He's a chain-smoking alcoholic who lost his wife in a car crash, and just can't see the joy of life. He lives with his daughter, Charlotte, who blames him for the death of her mother,Though it is apparently all smoke and no fire, it’s hard not to get a bit disturbed by the nature of the father-daughter relationship between Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg. From the duet Lemon Incest in 1984, with Charlotte reprising the role of her mother Jane Birkin, or in this film, Charlotte For Ever, there’s an uncomfortable closeness or casualness between the two.In this film, Stan (Serge) is a formerly successful screenwriter who has succumbed to alcoholism and depression in the aftermath of a car crash that took his wife’s life. His daughter Charlotte is his only remaining family. There’s something kind of Freudian in the duality of how she blames her father for her mother’s death and how she seems to adore his attention. She even gets a bit snippy at other women who come in and out of Stan’s life. And though Jane Birkin is still alive, I couldn’t help but see this story somewhat symbolic of the split between Gainsbourg and Birkin. And I suppose all of this is interesting to a point.
Maybe it’s an easy criticism to make of a director who is also a noted musician, but this film has a lot of moments that suggest music video more than movie. Broad physical acting and rather abstract montage. Carried on over a full film with fairly uninspiring dialogue and this movie ends up dreadfully dull.

Now, there is one thing I wasn't fond of. The soundtrack. Not that the title track "Charlotte For Ever", sung by the two Gainsbourgs, is a bad song (although it's so disturbingly "sexy" in its tone). It's actually a song that instantly got stuck in my head. But this and one other specific song are so overplayed within the film that the chosen moments lose some of the seriousness that was intended whenever you hear that musky, almost horny voice sing "Chaaaarloootte...!". Even though I have no idea what they sing in it, it creeps me out."Charlotte For Ever" is a show reel of talent from Serge and Charlotte Gainsbourg - father and daughter. The entire film is carried by their acting, their real and their fictive bond, their anxiety. Not a lot happens and I had wished for a different ending, but it's not a movie I could say is bad. The mood is very hard to define as it's never just "sad" or "funny". In that sense it's true to life, yet it never feels like reality. And of course, be warned - you will see more of a young woman than you should!

Delta 2008 Hungarian film Strange but nice...


The story of the Danube Delta and the relationship and takes the life popping response pathways multitude of humanity with nature is all about. The film's protagonist, the world was a taciturn Mikhail young expatriate who comes home to his family: his mother, to his partner , and had not known her sister. Fauna, the timid, fragile girl falls in love with her brother, and it takes its dilapidated Danube delta near viskójába. Far from everyone, the two brothers begin to build a house on stilts to get there - excluding the world - live together. However, this is impossible because of the unnatural relationship with their surroundings do not accept.The director does not serve an incestuous emphasis on story. The movie focuses on real human degeneration, and Mikhail Fauna and attempts to take it from the less experienced. Eventually, however, their dreams összerombolják.

Is good also to mention that Most of the scenes in Romania , the real Danube Delta filmed.
About half of the film is complete when playing the lead role of Louis Bertók the sudden death of the filming was interrupted. Turned over a substantial part of the film, now Lajkó Felix starring role as mother and Marit Kiss replace Monori Lili.Due to the re-shooting of the film budget capsized and were able to resume work only after finding new investors.The film's mood can be felt more than once John Pilinszky effect on the date of entry. You do Mundruczó Kornel said at the premiere of Pécs, which was held on September 11, the Apollo cinema.

Sunday, August 4, 2013

1995 : The Day of the Beast


At the beginning of the movies i was bored but when it pass 15 minutes from it i begin to like it,
The story revolves around a Basque Roman Catholic priest dedicated to committing as many sins as possible (Angulo), a death metal salesman from Carabanchel (Segura), and the Italian host of a TV show on the occult (De Razza). By committing multiple sins, the priest hopes to sell his soul, so that he can be at the birth of the Antichrist and kill it before it can destroy the world. The priest and the death metal salesmen kidnap the host, so he can help them in summoning the devil. The ritual requires the blood of a virgin and while on his quest to get it, the priest accidentally kills the salesmen's mother and close friend. During the ritual, in which the main characters go on an "acid trip", the devil manifests and, not being fooled by the priests actions, he does not reveal the location of the Antichrist. The trio eventually track down the birth place of the Antichrist. The salesman is killed by the Antichrist and the devil's minions attack and badly burn the host, but the priest is able to kill them and the Antichrist. After the events, the priest and the host become homeless drifters.in another worlds Spanish filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia followed his outlandish sci-fi/horror debut, Accion Mutante, with this colorful apocalypse fantasy about Father Angel (Alex Angulo), a scholarly priest whose intensive research into cabalistic "Bible Code" prophecies leads to a horrific discovery: the exact birthdate of the Antichrist. Convinced that Satan's spawn will be born somewhere in Madrid on Christmas Day, Father Angel embarks on a bizarre journey down the path of sin, committing the foulest possible acts against God and humanity in order to worm his way into the Devil's inner circle and face the ultimate foe on his own turf. Comprised of equal parts high-concept horror and scathing social satire (in the mode of the director's peer and former collaborator Pedro Almodovar), this ambitious horror film has garnered a sizable cult following

1945 Rome, Open City nice old movie


Italian nice old drama begin as German soldiers march through occupied Rome (an open city after 14 August 1943), engineer Giorgio Manfredi eludes them by jumping across the rooftops. A priest, Don Pietro Pellegrini, helps the resistance by transmitting messages and money. Don Pietro is scheduled to officiate Pina's wedding. Francesco, her betrothed, is not very religious, but would rather be married by a patriot priest than a fascist official. Her son, Marcello, and his friends have a small role in the resistance planting bombs. Pina's sister befriends Marina, Giorgio's former girlfriend, who betrays the resistance in exchange for drugs, fur coats, and other creature comforts.
The Gestapo commander in the city, with the help of the Italian police commissioner, captures Giorgio and the priest as they are escorting a German defector and Giorgio out of town. However, while the Nazis are taking away their captives, Pina sees her fiance loaded into a truck and runs after Francesco. She is gunned down by the Nazis as she chases the vehicle. The Gestapo interrogates Giorgio through torture.They attempt to use Pietro's religious beliefs to convince him to betray his cause, citing that he allies himself with atheists. Pietro responds that anyone who strives to help others is on the path of God whether they believe in Him or not. They then force Don Pietro to watch as Giorgio is tortured. When Giorgio dies without revealing anything and Don Pietro still refuses to crack, he is taken out and publicly executed in the early morning. The Nazis are deliberately trying to execute the priest before his parish finds out about his arrest the night before and can respond with a protest. However, parish altar boys show up to where Don Pietro is being executed and begin whistling which Don Pietro recognizes. The Italian firing squad are lined up to execute Don Pietro but deliberately miss him with their shots. The officer in charge of the squad walks over to the Don in frustration as soon as he realizes what happens and shoots the priest in the head. The movie ends.

Saturday, August 3, 2013

The best films director: Bruno Barreto


Bruno Barreto (born March 16, 1955) is a Brazilian film director born in Rio de Janeiro. He has been making feature-length films ever since he was seventeen years old and remains one of Brazil's most accomplished and popular directors to this day. The type of films he makes vary widely from light comedies like Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands (1976) and Bossa Nova (2000) to tense political thrillers like Four Days in September (1997). Four Days in September was entered into the 47th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1973 film Tati was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival.Other films Barreto has directed films include Carried Away and View from the Top. Barreto was married to actress Amy Irving from 1996 to 2005, with whom he made Bossa Nova and Carried Away.

They had one son (Gabriel) together. He is the ex-stepfather of Max Spielberg, Irving's son by her first husband Steven Spielberg.According to Bloomberg News, Brazilian prosecutors allege that Barreto razed protected jungle on Brazil's Pico Island to build a personal home. He was charged in 2006 for illegally clearing protected forestland. Barreto had agreed in a 2008 court proceeding to demolish said house and restore the land within 2 years. Yet, four years later, prosecutors claim that the house remains intact. He had his one major success at age 22 with his second film Doña Flor and her Two Husbands (1977).
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