Afterglow (1997)
Una comedia de lágrimas...
Género : Drama, Romance, Comedia
Tiempo de ejecución : 1H 54M
Director : Alan Rudolph
Sinopsis
En Montreal, el arribista Jeffrey Byron (Jonny Lee Miller) está a punto de cerrar otro lucrativo negocio. Aunque es joven, posee un agudo olfato comercial. Sus cuantiosas ganancias las dedica a satisfacer su máxima pasión: él mismo. A su esposa Marianne (Lara Flynn Boyle) le disgusta su excesiva entrega al trabajo y se siente frustrada por no poder satisfacer su deseo de ser madre. Al otro lado de la ciudad, vive Lucky "arreglalotodo" Mann (Nick Nolte), un contratista de obras y reparaciones, que está casado con Phyllis (Julie Christie), una ex-actriz de películas de serie B. Cuando Marianne contrata a Lucky para que renueve su apartamento, la vida de los cuatro dará un giro inesperado.
Después de no haberse visto en cinco años, Chris Terry va a visitar a su hermana pequeña Noelle Terry a Montreal. Sus vidas han sido un tanto turbulentas. Chris, que acaba de divorciarse de su esposa Denise, es un alcohólico en recuperación. Aunque él nunca ha cumplido condena, por sus crímenes cometidos en el pasado. Noelle, adicta a las drogas, se le complica llegar a fin de mes. Ella acaba de terminar una temporada en la cárcel. Noelle le hará una propuesta a su hermano.
A documentary about two 'conventional' couples that swapped partners and lived in a group marriage in the early 70s, hoping to pioneer an alternative to divorce and the way people would live in the future.
Narra los destinos paralelos de Jacqueline, madre de un niño en los años sesenta en París, y de Antoine, un DJ de éxito recién divorciado en el Montreal actual. Las dos historias se unen a través del amor. Un amor eufórico, obsesivo, trágico, juvenil y atemporal. Una odisea amorosa mística y fantástica.
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.
Mikio (Masato Sakai) is a married man and works hard for the company where he is employed. Then one day Mikio is diagnosed with depression. Mikio's wife is Haruko (Aoi Miyazaki). They have been married for 5 years. Haruko draws comics for work, but they do not sell well. She mainly relied on Mikio for support. Meanwhile, Haruko did not notice any changes in her husband. She begins to blame herself for not noticing any signs. Mikio's depression derived from his work. His company has been pressing him to quit the company. After Mikio quits his job his condition improves, but the dynamics of their relationship changes.
A man and two women are trying their luck in the red room in the countryside. The older (but therefore not wiser) Fred, freshly divorced as a kisser who still desires his ex, meets the self-confident Lucy, who feels called to explore the soul of men in her novels. She lives with her intimate friend Sibil in a Vorpommern house in the countryside. Fred decides to move from Berlin to the two women and try a ménage-à-trois. They get to know each other and themselves.
By following the lives of five Japanese individuals this documentary explores the problem of depression in Japan and how the marketing of anti-depressant drugs has changed the way the Japanese view depression. Marketing of anti-depressants did not begin in Japan until the late 1990s and prior to this, depression was not widely recognized as a problem by the Japanese public. Since then, use of anti-depressants has sky-rocketed and use of the Japanese word "utsu" to describe depression has become commonplace, having previously been used only by psychiatric professionals.
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.
La vida en la ciudad es dura. La rutina, el hastío, el cielo encapotado... No es extraño, pues, que muchos decidan borrarse a sí mismos de la faz de la tierra. La familia Tuvache lleva décadas atendiendo esa demanda: en su tienda disponen de todo tipo de ingenios, armas y venenos que aseguran al cliente abandonar este valle de lagrimas de la forma más satisfactoria posible. El negocio va viento en popa, pero el nacimiento del sonriente Alan lo cambiará todo. La imbatible joie de vivre del pequeño no tardará en revelarse altamente nociva para las “ventas”. Patrice Leconte debuta en el cine de animación con una pequeña y negrísima delicia musical, adaptación de la popular novela de Jean Teulé.
La actriz y cineasta canadiense Sarah Polley investiga ciertos secretos relacionados con su madre, entrevistando a un grupo de familiares y amigos cuya fiabilidad varía en función de su implicación en los hechos, que son recordados de diferentes maneras; de modo que siempre queda un rastro de preguntas por responder, porque la memoria es algo cambiante y a menudo el descubrimiento de la verdad depende de quién esté contando la historia.
The beautiful and popular movie star Miroslava is depressed tonight. As she prepares her suicide, her entire life is revealed on screen in a disturbing portrait of a lonely woman.
Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, trying to hide how much she suffers from her husband's amorous excursions while trying to help her children solve their problems and doing her best to keep her family together as it's slowly falling apart. Meanwhile, daughter Virginia is dumped by her boyfriend because she cannot help him with his career. Her cheating husband's birthday party is approaching and many lines will be crossed after that event.
Rami, a young man who lives with his Lebanese family in Montreal, walks with a debilitating limp. His controlling father, Ziad, insists on making Rami's choices for him. Ziad wants Rami to enroll in business school, but Rami, who is lonely and a bit of a dreamer, doesn't have his heart in it. When a young woman Rami's met online suggests they meet in person, he hatches a plan to pass himself off as Romeo, the businessman persona he assumes online.
A widower, visiting the crypt that holds the body of his wife, is accidentally trapped therein. That night he finds that she seems to have been cataleptic, rather than dead, and frees her from her coffin. Things, of course, are not what they seem.
An aging Hong Kong couple move to Australia with their two youngest sons. They stay with a daughter who has already begun a successful career. Meanwhile their eldest daughter lives in Germany and their eldest son remains in Hong Kong. The film explores the different ways the family members cope with isolation and alienation.
Estamos en 1970. Black Sabbath acaba de grabar su primer disco, lo que marca el nacimiento del Heavy Metal. Al mismo tiempo nace Hera Karlsdottir, en el suelo de la granja en la que viven sus padres. Hera Karlsdottir es una chica que sufre por su propia incapacidad para dirigir su vida. Encuentra consuelo en el Heavy Metal y sueña con convertirse en una estrella de rock.
This is the story of three characters (brothers Tomek and Jacek and their neighbor Magda), each of them is in their own way lonely and alienated. The title character makes herself secluded. Tomek's alienation results from his neurological disease, and Jacek contacts the world mainly via the Internet. This is also a film about love. Love of one brother to the other and of one alienated human being to the other. All together it creates a very universal picture with a Polish entourage.
The chief of an African village, who is called 'Demi Dieu' because after God he is the owner of all the things, already has five wives. But as this is not enough he decides to find himself a sixth wife so that he has one for every day of the week except on Sunday when he uses to relax.
Frances Mayes (Diane Lane) es una escritora americana de 35 años que vive en San Francisco y cuya perfecta vida acaba de dar un giro de 180 grados. Su reciente divorcio le ha causado una profunda depresión y un bloqueo creativo. Patti (Sandra Oh), su mejor amiga, empieza a preocuparse y decide regalarle una estancia de diez días en la Toscana (Italia). Una vez allí, Frances se encapricha de una villa llamada "Bramasole" (“que anhela el sol”) y decide comprarla. La casa necesita muchas reformas pero Frances está dispuesta a acometerlas. A medida que se va adaptando a su nuevo estilo de vida hará amistades entre sus vecinos.
Rose McGowan (Scream), James Duval (Nowhere), y Johnathon Schaech (That Thing You Do!) son un trío de jóvenes embarcados en una espiral de sexo y crímenes que acaba teniendo incluso cobertura televisiva. Un film independiente con semejanzas a "Natural Born Killers", de Oliver Stone, y autoproclamado por su director Araki como una "película criminal heterosexual". Dada sus profusas dosis de sexo y violencia, obtuvo una escasa distribución en todo el mundo.
