Vesna Goes Fast (1996)
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 32M
Director : Carlo Mazzacurati
Escritor : Umberto Contarello, Carlo Mazzacurati, Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli, Claudio Piersanti
Sinopsis
Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.
Una joven profesora de Pekín aterriza en París. Exiliada en una ciudad que desconoce, su tiempo lo reparte entre su pequeño apartamento y las aulas de la universidad, espacios que acogen los reencuentros con antiguos amantes y las rupturas con sus últimos conocidos. Al poco tiempo, conoce a Matthieu, un obrero que se enamora apasionadamente de ella. Poseído por un deseo insaciable, trata a Hua como un perro, forjando una relación basada en la violencia física y los abusos verbales. Cuando decide abandonar a su amante, Hua descubre la fuerza de su adicción y el papel vital que Matthieu comenzaba a desempeñar en su vida.
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Three educated but unemployed youth who have come to live in a bustling, harsh metropolis struggle to earn a living.
Ambientada en un México sórdido, patético, doloroso. En el prostíbulo de un pequeño pueblo sobreviven la Manuela, un trasvesti, y la Japonesita, una joven prostituta hija de un desliz de la Manuela. Don Alejo, el anciano cacique del lugar, quiere comprar el prostíbulo para venderlo a un consorcio junto con el resto del pueblo. El regreso de Pancho, un joven camionero ahijado de don Alejo, desata las tensiones entre los personajes. (FILMAFFINITY)
Young girls are cheated into rigged gambling games and then forced into prostitution to pay off their debts.
A construction worker destroys Bugs' home with a steam shovel and refuses to repair the damage.
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Thanks to his wife Madeleine, a social worker who saved him from the street when he was 17-years-old, Pierre Dalpé has become a prosperous entrepreneur, running a garbage-collection business in the Montreal area. His quiet happiness with his wife and their children changes when he crosses paths with Eve, a teenage drug addict/prostitute who belongs to a street gang. At the risk of destroying everything he’s built up, Pierre decides to make it his mission to help Eve get out of her unhealthy situation before she dies of an overdose, like his sister did. But in doing so, he has to confront his old demons, to Madeleine’s despair, as she feels him slipping farther away from her every day.
En el Japón medieval, el poderoso señor Hidetora decide abdicar y repartir sus dominios entre sus tres hijos. El menor considera que la idea es absurda y sólo servirá para causar problemas. Su padre, enfurecido, lo deshereda. Muy pronto descubrirá su error: la ambición hará que sus hijos mayores se enfrenten por el poder en una cruenta guerra. Se inspira en el drama de Shakespeare "El rey Lear".
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Un hombre llega a un refugio de montaña. Aparca su coche, lo cierra y tira la llave a un río. Entra en la casa y hay multitud de domingueros dispuestos a pasar el fin de semana esquiando y bebiendo ponche. Él trata de conversar con algunos pero siempre acaba discutiendo con ellos. A la mañana siguiente el hombre no aparece por ninguna parte...
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Woody Woodpecker goes to the park for a game of golf, and quickly gets at odds with some city-workers who are laying a cement walk. His hooks and slices keep landing into the wet cement. But he smooths everything out by putting a couple of cement-trowels on his feet, and gliding over the surface as if it was ice.
Luz está en la cárcel, acusada de haber asesinado a sus hijos. El marido y la suegra aseguran que ella los mató premeditadamente. La doctora Rebollar pretende ayudar a la mujer, pero ésta no recuerda nada y piensa que la cárcel es el purgatorio: una etapa previa para llegar al cielo.
An affluent city is covered in snow, all seems perfect – on the surface. Divorcé Rolf is doing his best to rebuild his relationship with his daughter. Pregnant Lena appears to be living a faultless family life with her husband and son. Social worker Judith has a tough job and escapes it through her fantasies, whilst widowed Maria has finally built up the courage to invite her male acquaintance to a romantic dinner.
In the course of one day, all of them will cross paths with the Bulgarian Mia, who works in the red-light trade and their seemingly perfect lives will never be the same…
En una pequeña comunidad minera en el norte de Suecia, un grupo de jóvenes a punto de dar el salto en la edad adulta luchan con ellos mismos y el mundo que los rodea, mientras que el suelo tiembla literalmente bajo sus pies.
