One day is much like another: a man’s day, somewhere on the outskirts of the city, in a dilapidated room. The torment of getting up, trembling hands searching among empty one-liter bottles, a face snarling back from the mirror, the escape, a tattered jacket over his pajamas, a two-kilogram loaf of bread, burning liquor down his throat… At first glance, this day is no different from those that came before…
Tag: 1990s
A plastic puzzle of 16 parts, made in Finland: UFO, uterus, butterfly, playhouse. This prefabricated building, to be placed on the top of the mountains or the African coast, represented the dreamy future the humankind was about to enter in 1968. The story of the rise and fall of Futuro is the story of the idea of a future man, the idea which emerges and disperses.
August 1962, and one day is much like the next. La Dolce Vita starring Anita Ekberg is playing in cinemas and apartment block janitor uncle Simon hosts the in-house morning radio show with news, advice and music. The Communist Youth League is organizing a competition. The winning team of the Talent Show can take part in the World Youth Meeting far away in Helsinki. Naturally, the winners have already been decided. This musical satire built on reworked hits and gags parodies both the Kádár system and those who look back on it with nostalgia.
Trümpi is a road movie that follows Jew’s harp virtuoso Anton Bruhin on a musical journey from Zurich and the Swiss Alps to Siberia and Tokyo. Accompanied by the distinctive sound of his trümpi (the Swiss-German word for Jew’s harp), Bruhin explores musical traditions ranging from folk to avant-garde, bridging cultures between town and country, East and West.
An aging beauty queen reluctantly escorts her daughter and friends back to Paris, Texas — her home, which she mysteriously fled a decade earlier — to oversee a beauty pageant in this campy road dramedy.
In Istanbul, the Kurdish immigrants are constantly hassled by the cops. Mehmet is arrested for something he hasn’t done and beaten up in prison. Later, his new friend, Berzan, who scrapes a living selling music tapes from a barrow, is killed in police custody. Mehmet is determined to take Berzan’s body back to his village in the south. That is the coffin bit, which becomes a genuine adventure. A silent cry for freedom and peace, a movie that expresses the wish of people living peacefully together.
Acclaimed New York filmmaker Alan Berliner took on his reclusive father as the reluctant subject of this poignant documentary, and what emerged was this cinematic biography that finds both humor and pathos in the swirl of conflicts and affections that bind father and son. Berliner weaves together archival footage and interviews with relatives in his quest to understand this complex and troubled character. Ultimately, Nobody’s Business serves as a meeting of the minds, where generations collide and the boundaries of family relationships are pushed to the brink.
Married with children, Réal falls in love with Angie, a singer at an adult nightclub. Leaving his family hastily to live with the woman he loves, Réal unwittingly finds himself drawn into the seedy underworld on which she depends. Through a series of circumstances, Réal becomes a stand-up comedian, and slowly sees his partner become entangled in a web of lies that threaten to destroy their relationship.