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Roman seems like a normal teenager, playing video games, drawing, and hanging out with his friends, but under the surface he’s made a decision, a decision to explode. He wants to do it in public. He's not suicidal. He has no ideology. He's not interested in "heaven" or in going there. He doesn't want people to misinterpret his explosion as a suicide. He doesn't want people to misinterpret the explosion as his death. Official Selection at the **Rotterdam...
2) The Pirogue
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In Moussa Toure’s powerful epic fiction film, a group of 30 men sail to Europe in a pirogue, facing the sea - and the possibility of never reaching their destination - in exchange for the myth of a better life in Europe. Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue. Like many of his Senegalese compatriots, he sometimes dreams of new horizons, where he can earn a better living for his family. When he is offered to lead one of the many pirogues that...
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THE STRANGLER centers on ¡mile, a handsome young man targeting women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple women fall to ¡mile₂s suffocating white scarf, inspector Simon Dangret, the detective assigned to track down the killer, resorts to seriously unorthodox and even unethical methods to get his man with the assistance of Anna, a beautiful woman who believes herself to be a potential victim.
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Blending unflinching realism with moments of startling, light-filled beauty, the film finds unexpected philosophical richness in the quotidian, small-town existence of Freddy, an aimless young man with epilepsy who, in his childlike simplicity, embodies both great tenderness and terrifying brutality. Leaving the film's cryptic title tantalizingly open to interpretation, Dumont dares viewers to see the divine in a seemingly dead-end world.
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Points volume P4092
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"En vérité, l'insurrection contre mes parents, contre la pauvreté, contre ma classe sociale, son racisme, sa violence, ses habitudes, n'a été que seconde. Car avant de m'insurger contre le monde de mon enfance, c'est le monde de mon enfance qui s'est insurgé contre moi. Je n'ai pas eu d'autre choix que de prendre la fuite. Ce livre est une tentative pour comprendre."--Page [4] of cover.
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Criterion collection volume 729
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Jour de fête: In this enchanting debut feature, Jacques Tati stars as a fussbudget of a postman who is thrown for a loop when a traveling fair comes to his village.
Monsieur Hulot's holiday: Monsieur Hulot takes a holiday, at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another.
Mon oncle: A supremely amusing satire of mechanized living and consumer society.
Playtime: A nearly wordless comedy about confusion in an age of...
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