if anything, fascism is anti-me. ettore scola’s depressingly subversive portrait that explores the blossoming relationship between two suffering victims of the fascism regime. set during the historic national holiday where adolf hitler makes his first state visit to rome, a special day follows two neighbours who chose to stay at home. the first, sophia loren’s antonietta taberi, a dependable housewife & mother of six children is unable to attend the parade with her family as she has domestic chores to take care…
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La Belle Noiseuse 1991
nuisance stirs the artist's palette. jacques rivette's meticulous, lusciously enterprising depiction about the failures & success of making a work of art. la belle noiseuse tails michel piccoli's edouard frenhofer, a renowned artist who left his prized creation "la belle noiseuse" unfinished for ten years in which his wife, jane birkin's liz modeled for. they both reside quietly in their countryside villa, when art agent gilles arbona's porbus brings along young artist david bursztein's nicolas & his girlfriend emmanuelle béart's marianne to…
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Pierre and Djemila 1987
shakespeare’s romeo & juliet redux interwoven by the deliberate bressonian commentary on social divide & discrimination under the zeitgeist of impressionistic french society
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Tout Va Bien 1972
outside the factory, it's still like a factory. jean-luc godard & jean-pierre gorin’s overtly world-weary, exhaustively radical meditation which outlines the social destruction & working-class struggles caused by capitalism in france. loosely based on the society-shaking upheavals of the may 1968 protests, tout va bien begins when married couple; dissatisfied american reporter jane fonda’s suzanne dewitt & disaffected art-film-turned-commercial director yves montand’s jacques get locked in a bitter struggle between sausage-factory workers & the management not giving them their proper due. thus, intersecting the…
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Funeral Parade of Roses 1969
a transgressive & disturbing cornucopia of avant-garde experimentation while headlining queer cinema. funeral parade of roses has every major elements on the experimental periodic table here, the verite styled documentary, wild psychosexual & sometimes gung ho warholian images are sooo tailor-made for this film. and it cannot & will not be replicated ever again, prove me wrong otherwise
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A City of Sadness 1989
socio-political sadness insured. hou hsiao hsien’s sympathisingly sorrowful yet spectacularly charged historical portrait of taiwan’s traumatic escalation & strife within the social & political landscape post-world war two, but focuses more of its attention on the consequences for a particular family & reveal how the individual’s perception or relationships are directly or indirectly impacted by these turn of events. spanning over the period of 1945 to 1949, after the end of fifty years of japanese colonial rule & before the establishment of a government-in-exile…
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