Quebec, the 1830s and 1840s. As she attends the bedside of Jérôme, her second husband, Élisabeth recalls her youth, her marriage to her first husband, Antoine, life in remote Kamouraska where he is seigneur, their love dissolving in his mental illness and cruelties, her falling in love with an American physician, Georges Nelson, and the aftermath of Antoine’s violent death.
Tag: 1970s
The romantic and professional life of composer Johann Strauss Jr. provides the basis of this colorful remake of the 1938 version.
Henrik Ibsen’s enduring drama about a Nordic femme fatale – a neurotic, controlling, strong-willed woman who is nonetheless alluring to the males in her town. She is a solitary woman in a society held together by kinship and class. If she had had more brains she would have thought her way out of it; if she had had more courage she would have bolted long ago with Lovborg, the only true creative force in the vicinity whose manuscript she burns in the stove as if she were aborting their unconceived child.
A sarcastic, improvisational film, with anarchic origins, strongly cinephile flavor, and largely autobiographical in nature and content. A film director strives to escape alienation, while, at the same time, expressing his intense feelings for his wife, cinema and Greece during the restoration of democracy.
In a medieval village lives a marriage of old people, who have always wanted to have a child. The years passed and God did not grant them that happiness. A day in the forest a UFO appears, from which mysterious creatures come out and leave a child abandoned.
Blithely ignorant of its unforgiving landscape or its people, a hunter named Gale enters the Mexican jungle and is immediately out of his element. Resting after his first foray, Gale meets Sleigh, an aging American hunter and expatriate.
Alan Arkin, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-wierding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, overcoated hitchhiker buddy.