Seventh heaven – TV-Tip of the Week
Seventh heaven – TV-Tip of the Week
Genre: Comedy
Psychoanalysis
Is the proverbial “seventh heaven” is also generally considered synonymous with the highest happiness, are the protagonists of this French drama by Benoît Jacquot’s 1997 miles away from this state first. It is the severe crisis of a young woman who represents the starting point of the seventh heaven, which is increasingly a psychological confusion around imaginations, dreams and the so-called reality. Even though her marriage to the well-situated surgeons Nico (Vincent Lindon), this does not need to tilt the distinctive Mathilde (Sandrine Kiberlain) increased to shoplifting and further suffers from fainting spells. While her husband is trying to eliminate this crisis with an appropriate medication quickly, Mathilde looks in their distress in a random acquaintance help quite a mysterious doctor (François Berléand), who specialized in hypnosis. The therapy, which Mathilde now starts with the Hynotiseur proves to be fast to be extremely fruitful: In the context of transparency and processing of their difficult family history wins Mathilde confidence, fresh energy – and a lot more joy in their sex life, what it enters the distrust of her husband Nico who suspects his wife changed so promptly, take a secret lover … In an ironic manner appealing carefully orchestrated Seventh heaven has cleverly calculated to delicious entertainment within a playful production, which plunges not only the wonderfully active characters, but also embraced the audience sometimes belonging in confusion. At the Venice Film Festival for the Golden Lion as well as for a César for Sandrine Kiberlain nominated for Best Actress is Benoît Jacquot (School of desire / L’école de la chair, 1998, Sade, 2000, Marie and Freud and Princess Marie, 2004) with The Seventh Heaven, a film succeeded not because of its impressive history, but in view of the playfulness of his actors and by the cunning use of the director with the apparent reality. (Mary Anderson)
Title: The Seventh Heaven – TV-Tip of the Week Original Title: Le septième ciel Country of production: France Production year: 1997 ( #) Length: 84 (Min.)
Friction
Jun 20, 2010 Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Friction
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Mystery
High School, triangle, students, film in film
Director Cullen Hoback will actually turn a feature film about a married couple and a student who begins an affair with the Ehefau. But while the film is formed blur the boundaries between fiction and reality. What remains is a mixture of documentary and feature film. Title: Friction Country of production: USA Production year: 2009 Length: 89 (Min.)
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Summer with Monika
Summer with Monika
Genre: Drama
Love, summer, pregnancy, Boat, Stockholm, Baltic Sea
Based on the novel of the Swedish novelist Per Anders Fogelström, who together with director Ingmar Bergman also wrote the screenplay for the film, this black and white film evolved from 1953, the date appears again in the Ingmar Bergman in two Arthaus DVD. Summer with Monika tells the story of a young love, in the carelessness of a stolen summer blooms and then in the demands of everyday life that they can not carry, threatens to suffocate. As the young, hungry for life Monika (Harriet Andersson) and the quiet Harry (Lars Ekborg), in Stockholm investigate the early 1950s, more forced than eagerly their unskilled jobs meet each other paves, between the two different personalities rapidly to a love story. While Harry is basically a dutiful young man, Monika is more inclined towards the frivolous pleasures, which are then Harry can seduce the hinschmeißt abruptly due to a discord his job. Now follows a carefree summer in the middle of a heavenly nature, spent by the lovers in the little boat of Harry’s father on the Baltic. photographed in beautiful images celebrating the two here their magical nearby defend to defend themselves against an intruder to tell from their unpleasant childhood and make plans for a common future, move their imaginations in bourgeois ideals of family, because Monika expected now a child of Harry. After gradually with inventories exhausted the good mood turn, Monika and Harry returned to Stockholm, where Harry’s Aunt (Dagmar Ebbesen), thankfully, that the young couple can marry. While Harry fortbildet next to the work to be an engineer, there is so very Monika can not handle in the confines of the barren and civic life. After the birth of her daughter, she buries itself first in its witty, melancholy mood, so the aunt takes care of the baby, and then it begins again to hang around with men … The very young couple with so different personalities and needs, early parenthood, the material poverty and the social constraints – in strong, intense pictures here a portrait of a love of drawing, which breaks inevitably to the demands of everyday life. Summer with Monika, who is a carefree summer as a strong contrast against this failure, renounces obvious moralizing and focuses on the sensations and movements of its two main characters in their dense universe, which will prove ultimately to be too narrow to permanently social space to exist. Although the film clearly comes along in the spirit of its date, the themes of the couple appear unchanged but to date, so this early Bergman plant could almost make a lesson about the pitfalls of young love. (Mary Anderson)
Title: Summer with Monika Original Title: Sommar med Monika Country of production: Sweden Production year: 1953 Length: ( #) 92 (Min.) Published at: format: 1.33:1 tone / language: Dolby Digital mono, German , Swedish EAN: 4006680054254 Extras: biography of Ingmar Bergman, production notes. The DVD is released within the “Ingmar Bergman Edition 2″
Conviction
Jun 18, 2010 Biography, Drama, Thriller
Conviction
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Biography
Miscarriage of justice, sibling relationships, study, Advocate
Kenny Waters in 1983 will be sentenced for murder. His sister Betty Anne is convinced that he is innocent. The mother of two brings her to school and studied law in order to represent her brother as a lawyer. For 18 years she has worked doggedly on the case, get Kenny to be free again. Finally opened a DNA test to prove the possibility of Kenny’s innocence for good. Title: Conviction Country of production: USA Production year: 2011
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Cell 211
Cell 211
Genre: Drama, Action
Jail, prison guards, hostage, cell, prison revolt
Juan, a young prison guard, takes his first working day. During a tour through the prison it comes to the accident and Juan is injured on the head. Unconscious, bring him two of his colleagues it into the empty cell 211th But before they can take care of him, in the high security wing broke out a rebellion. When Juan comes to himself again, he must find that he is placed entirely on their own. To survive, to have Juan as a new inmate. Title: Cell 211 Original Title: Celda 211 Country of production: France, Spain Year of Production: 2009 Length: (# ) 109 (Min.) Distribution: Universum Film
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A map of the sounds of Tokyo
Jun 17, 2010 Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A map of the sounds of Tokyo
Genre: Drama
Contract killer, love relationship, Tokyo, suicide, Cannes 2009
When it comes to feelings, in extreme situations, it is the Spanish director Isabel Coixet on top form. After My Life Without Me and The Secret Life of Words / The Secret Life of Words is her with her new film again succeeded in creating a masterpiece – a sparkling gem, in which break the complex inner worlds of five people. A map of the sounds of Tokyo is the story of the fragile-beautiful Ryu (Rinko Kikuchi of the Japan-only episode of Babel). The young woman leads a double life – but none that would serve the cliche of the secret whore. Ryu worked at night at the fish market and take orders during the day as a professional killer. Why the silent loner lives so we do not know. The only certainty is that they will one day bring the Spanish wine merchant David (Sergi Lopez) to the track. The had a relationship with Midori, the young daughter of an influential CEOs. Midori suffering so in this love, that she kills herself and leaves a heartbroken father. The David is to blame for the death of his daughter and demands revenge. For the killer Ryu is the wine merchants also not a simple case. She discovers in him a kindred spirit with him and spends the night without firing the gun. Ideally she would now return the order. But their donors remain hard. So far set the framework for action, which, with its thriller bonds the film gives a solid framework, so to speak, the outer structure of a piece with his sentence consequences. It can now develop the different voices freely and tell their stories inside. The act of sensuality as well as of sadness, of love of life as well as by a longing for death. Each of the characters – are added or a sound engineer Ryu platonic friends, and the assistant to the CEOs, who was hopelessly in love with his daughter – controls at their own emotional world, each of which is marked by a different extreme life situation. Together they form an associative tapestry of sound. That A Map of the Sounds of Tokyo, a musical film is structured, it has only been out of the title. And of course, Isabel Coixet has been with the sounds and music, this time a great deal of trouble. The soundtrack plays in addition to the two protagonists of the third lead. They commented on and is counterpoint, is ahead of events and pauses to in most pensive songs express what remains unspoken. For, among many others what can be said of Coixet’s film, he is also a sensitive study of the silence. In this way remain so many riddles as necessary to tell the story not to a shallow love story or a gimmicky Gangster Story. Isabel Coixet solves the balancing act between too much mystery and too much food psychology elegant by leaving tell the story from the off – with the figure of the sound engineer. The is not an omniscient narrator, but is many issues with which the viewer sees also faced – without a quick answer to have. With its sophisticated color aesthetic homage to the city of Tokyo succeeds Isabel Coixet a remarkable balance between melancholy and pleasure. Especially if the lonely protagonists roam the city, brings back memories of Lost in Translation. The director is careful not intrusive but before quotations, but creates her very own picture of the lights of a city. The sparkle so beautiful that you want to stay smooth. (Peter Gutting)
Title: A Map of the Sounds of Tokyo Original Title: Map of the Sounds of Tokyo Country of production: , Spain Year of Production: 2009 ( #) Length: 109 (Min.) Distribution: Alamode Film Distribution
The chess player (DVD)
Jun 17, 2010 Drama, Literature, Movie Trailers
The chess player (DVD)
Genre: Drama
Village, hotel, chess, chess tournament, maid
Chess is something for men. It was thought. But ever since this film is likely the game will at Queen and King in a new light. Caroline Bottaro draws in its lovely feature film debut, the chess player a vibrant sensual image of the female desire for a good game. Hélène (Sandrine Bonnaire) is working as a maid in a hotel in Corsica on the side as a cleaning lady at Dr. Kroger (Kevin Kline). Your life does not allow for large jumps. But the resting in itself, a brittle woman radiating satisfaction is lacking in anything really. That changes when she observed one day a couple playing chess. The scene is burning in their hearts so that from now on no more remains, as it was. Because her husband finds no pleasure in the endless variations on the 64 fields, Hélène persuaded the sullen Kroger to teach her the basics and tricks. However, it is no ordinary game, which gives the unknown couple on the balcony of the hotel room. The two seem to wrest the game much more than a few strained thoughts. What Hélène sees there, looks like an erotic act – so relish the attention, so seductive movements, so casually drop the negligee, whose support the woman always does. And Hélène is in the room, looking through the curtains onto the balcony, like a voyeur to something just as enticing as the forbidden. The chess player / joueuse based on the novel by Bertina Henrichs. But if you do not know, one would not expect it. For the director does not provide literature, but works with genuinely cinematic means. All the hopes and doubts, all the emerging aspirations of the main character is told through gestures and glances, through a tender light and sun-drenched colors. They wrap Hélène suddenly opening possession in an erotic haze. It had to do not actually have a taboo, which the protagonist ventures there: to discover a talent in itself, which changed her life completely. The wife and mother, who was only there for others, now claimed an area of their life on their own. It is as if the true core of her personality been kissed from a long sleep. One of the great strengths of the film that Kevin Kline and Sandrine Bonnaire invest their game so diverse. The sets with and against each other at the chessboard train to train personal change in course as they would have credited any of the figures. Kevin Kline – with a gray beard, barely recognizable – is of the arrogant people who hate the charming mentor. And Sandrine Bonnaire manage to keep their Hélène in a credible balance between the call of the new and the retention of what was good. Thus, from the erotic chess padded no banal love triangle, but an affinity that knows its limits. It is a consciously female perspective, from the director Caroline Bottaro designs the scenes at the chessboard. Of competition, determination, or can you lose is not over long distances to feel anything. Only at the very end break with elements that could have been suspected in a man from the beginning. Since being bluffed and gerangelt, as do the psychological tricks her rampant mischief. But at this point Hélène plays so confidently that they can be explained by anything or anyone distract from a deep conviction: “The lady is the most powerful piece in chess.” (Peter Gutting)
Title: The chess player (DVD) Original Title: joueuse Country of production: , Germany, France Year of Production: 2009 Length: 97 (Min.) Published at: Concorde Home Entertainment format: 16:9 tone / language: Dolby Digital 5.1, German, French (# ) EAN: 4009750206805 Extras: Making Of, Trailer
La cité
Jun 16, 2010 Drama
La cité
Genre: Drama
Algeria, doctor, colonialism, plague, Munich Film Festival 2010
In 1885, Algeria is a French colony in the period since the war years. The doctor would like Maxime Vincent has only one wish, disgusted by the carnage and the behavior of his countrymen, he return back to France and North Africa back. Vincent is waiting for a caravan that will bring him to embarkation, when the plague breaks out on his whereabouts. Title: La cité Original Title: City of Shadows Country of production: Canada Production year: 2010 Length: 84 (Min)
Cairo Time
Cairo Time
Genre: Drama, Romance
Affair, Cairo, Munich Film Festival 2010
Juliette is the first time in Cairo, awaiting her husband, who works for the United Nations. But the husband can wait. Instead, his friend takes care of Tareq, who runs a small cafe in the Egyptian capital to Juliette. Tareq shows her the sights of the city and both are surprised at themselves, as they begin an affair. Title: Cairo Time Country of production: , Canada, Ireland, Egypt Year of Production: 2009 Length: 88 (Min.) (# )
Middle Men
Jun 16, 2010 Comedy, Criminal, Drama
Middle Men
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Business idea, gangster, FBI, Internet, porn
1995: The world marvels at a new invention – the Internet. The businessman Jack Harris has a flourishing company and a happy family when he meets Wayne Beering and Buck Dolby, which present him with an idea of how to earn money with the new medium: it sold pornography. Jack takes over the management of the company very soon rolling in cash. But success also come the problems, because all want a piece of the pie. And soon Jack is caught in a web of porn stars, gangsters and the FBI. Title: Middle Men Country of production: USA Production year: 2009 Length: 105 (Min.)
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