In Lausanne, Léon is involved by accident with a small Leninist group and gets to know Léa, a dedicated activist and the group leader’s mistress. The police keep a close watch on them and trouble is bound to follow.
Tag: 1970s
Eliot Green finds himself caught up in a whirlwind of caterers, guest lists, hairdressers and Torah study as Maria Charles’ endearingly fussy matriarch Rita prepares him for the most important day of his life (no pressure!). Exhausted dad Victor and elder sister Lesley take a more serene approach, but Eliot’s about to experience an acute case of cold feet. Affectionately satirising the rituals of Jewish community and debunking the myth of adulthood, Jack Rosenthal’s witty time capsule of 1970s Britain is still irresistible three decades on.
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
Having been adopted by the madam of a southwestern brothel, a now adult Adrian must cope with the fact that he’s Satan’s kid, and not living up to his expectations. Sequel to Roman Polanski’s 1968 film but unlike the original, this one has little connection with the novel the first film was based on.
A wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears a striking resemblance to his missing wife, who may have been murdered.
In Italy, gambler and poetry professor Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months at a high school, replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio Mosca, Marcello, and Gerardo Pavani. In the classroom he meets 19-year-old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo’s girlfriend, and they fall in love. Their relationship leads to a tragic end.
Here the different poses of the artist provide the raw material for Peter Kubelka to create an ecstatic work that deals with rhythm and repetition, as much as with human actions and automatisms. Together with Mosaic and Afrikareise, Kubelka considers this to belong to his metaphoric film work.