Josefin is a six-year-old girl who lives isolated in the countryside, where her father is a priest. She has no friends until she meets Hugo. He is a carefree boy who rather walk in the forest than go to school. Together with the gardener they make up fun things to do.
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A well known actor comes to off-season Capri to unwind and meets a teenaged boy. The attraction is immediate and mutual but before their relationship can get off the ground, an alluring woman with a spontaneous sexuality and care free attitude joins the triangle and the boy is slowly pushed out of the picture.
Summer in Vienna is the backdrop for intersecting anecdotes about six locals. Anna, a compulsive hitchhiker, travels to shopping malls with strangers. A widower asks a cleaning woman to strip for him. A divorced man and woman who still live together try to make each other miserable. A teacher suffers violence at the hands of her boyfriend. These different people live out unfulfilled existences, attempting to muffle their isolation.
The first feature film by young fashion photographer Massimo Mazzucco is a charming and fragile work of atmosphere and sincerity. Made on a shoestring budget, the film takes us on a trip to New York City with Italian tourist Marco, who tries to find his way through the jungle of a giant foreign city.
James Russo stars as an American teacher in Rome who falls for the beautiful Bianca and enters into a torrid affair made even more frenzied when she buys him an expensive leather belt… she wants to be whipped with. Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia.
Bobby is about to abandon Tessa, but in a suicidal panic she persuades him to stay one last night and reenact the good old times in front of a video camera for posterity.
Rarely has a film exploded onto cinema screens with such a joyful splash of colour and rhythm as A Colour Box. Made as a commercial for the General Post Office, New Zealand born Len Lye painted directly onto the film strip, synchronising his dynamic shapes and squiggles with an upbeat rumba track. The film captured the heart of audiences on its release in 1935 and continues to do so today.