Contrary to his mother’s opinions, Albert Dehousse discovers that his father wasn’t a war hero. He decides to leave his wife and go to Paris to be a part of the resistance movement in France.
Tag: 1990s
Two accident-prone plumbers go to fix the plumbing at a home for retired gentle-folk on the coldest day of the year in Finland. Everything that can go wrong for these plumbers goes wrong.
A very impressive transposition of William Faulkner’s story Barn Burning to rural Malaysia, this centres on an embittered worker-for-hire who uses arson as his weapon to attack those who exploit or cheat him, but doesn’t hesitate to bully his own family into submission. As the spare drama unfolds, attention focuses on the man’s youngest son, whose instinct is to rebel against his tyrannical father but who has been more influenced by him than he realises.
A rich city woman and murder witness on the run from her psychotic husband takes refuge in the barn of a Texas dirt farmer. The farmer is also on the run from the law and has been for years and finally must confront the police when they come for the woman.
Cyber Palestine is a parable about a modern-day Mary and Joseph, two Palestinian returnees living in Gaza, and their tribulations with the Israeli occupation.
After narrowly escaping death in a violent confrontation, a traumatized young woman flees to the mountains, where she wanders aimlessly for days. She is discovered by a man who helps her regain her strength, and who eventually earns her confidence. Amid this idyllic setting they soon fall in love, but their happiness does not last for long- the police are hunting a young woman accused of murder.
In this re-make of the famous 1974 film the story is retold of humanoid alien twin babies who are found near a mysterious mountain. Accidentally separated, they grow up in the same town not knowing each other exists. Just as they discover their relationship, an unscrupulous local entrepreneur decides to use their supernatural powers to make himself rich. Only the mountain’s mysterious powers can save them.
Krzysztof Kieslowski is the foremost director to have emerged in Poland since Andrzej Wadja. His two most recent features, A Short Film About Killing and A Short Film About Love, shocked Western audiences and critics with their pessimism and brutality. Shot during the final months of communist rule, they are actually two in an extraordinary cycle of films made for Polish television. Each uses one of the Ten Commandments to explore the morality of Polish society; their subjects range from suicide to stamp-collecting, from incest to home computers. Arena talks to Kieslowski about these parables of contemporary life, and his role as a modern-day Moses.