Three sisters, estranged after a shared childhood trauma, are gradually reunited by a young stranger with a surprising revelation.
In this French thriller from Francois Ozon Alice (Natacha Regnier) and her boyfriend Luc (Jeremie Renier) find themselves in a terrifying trap when they sneak out into the woods to cover up a crime they committed together and then cannot find their way back out. Compared to 'The Blair Witch Project' and to 'Shallow Grave' the tale is creepy and twisting involving rape murder burying dead bodies and perhaps the worst of all: getting lost in the woods...
Kusturica's extraordinary dramatic black tragicomedy is an epic tale about love friendship betrayal manipulation and lies. It is also the first film to deal with the Yugoslav tragedy. It is not a factual account of the conflict but expresses Balkan vitality energy humour and the will to survive set against the complex historical backdrop of the past fifty years in Yugoslavia. Based on Dusan Kovacevic's story 'Once Upon A Time There Was A Country' the story follows two likeable crooks- Marko a charmer who manipulates everyone within his reach and his pal the foolish but loveable Blacky. The third member of the group is Natalija an actress of easy virtue with whom they are both in love. The three of them live and take part in a world of self-delusion deceit and abuse but one where there is also love and tenderness.
Bullets will fly and heads will roll in this highly explosive, spectacular thriller that gives Bourne and Bond a run for their money.
Two neighbours live opposite each other on a country road somewhere in Northern France. They hate each other and life for them is nothing but a daily painful confrontation. One day in the course of a violent dispute an agricultural trailer knocks them over and sends them both to hospital. They are both released in wheelchairs paralysed from the waist down. Giving up on the idea of suicide they each decide to embark on a personal journey. However before they know it they both end up on the same platform waiting for the same train. Neighbours once again for better or worse. An unpredictable odyssey then starts taking them all the way to Finland where they intend to obtain financial compensation from the manufacturers of the agricultural machinery for their accident...
Celebrated Balkan filmmaker Emir Kusturica won his first Palme d'Or the Cannes Film Festival's highest honour for this exuberant portrait of 1950s Yugoslavia as seen through the eyes of six year-old Malik. As the country resists the pressures of Stalinism many find themselves taken away ""on business"" by the police for making imprudent statements against the government. But Malik's father Manojlovic finds himself imprisoned for an altogether less noble reason when his affair with the mistress of a high-ranking party official is discovered. Naively believing his Papa to be away on business Malik must face up to life's sometimes poignant often comic tribulations without him.
Middle-aged Maggie must find a way to get enough money for her grandson's lifesaving medical treatment. With all financial resources exhausted, Maggie tries her best to lift the dwindling hopes of her only son Tom and his wife Sarah.
Ada (Helen Bonham Carter) is an English fashion designer living a vaguely dissatisfied life with screenwriter Paul in a new home which is a bit above their means. Guido Paul's writing partner is having relationship problems of his own with Stephanie. And Guido and Paul are seriously late in delivering their script to Alphonse a young director with diminishing patience. Into this comes Lise an up and coming fashion designer who derails Ada's career by snagging a major assignment and making romantic advances at Paul. The lives loves deceptions triumphs and tragedies of this circle of self-absorbed over-achieving Parisians becomes more confusing convoluted and entangled leading to a surprising finale that blurs fiction and reality in a very Woody Allen way.
Their Idea Of Foreplay Was Murder. In this French thriller from Francois Ozon Alice (Natacha Regnier) and her boyfriend Luc (Jeremie Renier) find themselves in a terrifying trap when they sneak out into the woods to cover up a crime they committed together and then cannot find their way back out. Compared to The Blair Witch Project and to Shallow Grave the tale is creepy and twisting involving rape murder burying dead bodies and perhaps the worst of all: getting lost in the woods.
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