Jacques Collard

Jean empieza a trabajar como ayudante de un fotógrafo obsesionado con el arte arcaico de los daguerrotipos y atormentado por la muerte de su esposa, cuya presencia aún se nota entre las sombras. La primera película que Kiyoshi Kurosawa realiza fuera de Japón mezcla romanticismo e intriga, prolongando con naturalidad la concepción que el cineasta tiene de lo fantasmagórico.

Najib, who lives in Morocco, envies his brother, an architect living in France for twenty years. For lack of money, he decides to join the hexagon, but clandestinely. During his journey, he meets Attila, a Turk on the run that will drag him into his shady business. His arrival in France will be far from being as idyllic as he hoped!

Dean Corso (Johnny Depp) trabaja de forma confidencial, con sumo cuidado, dotado de una sólida cultura, nervios de acero y pocos escrúpulos. Su reputación le ha servido para recibir la llamada de Boris Balkan (Frank Langella), un apasionado de los textos demoníacos que quiere encontrar los dos últimos libros del legendario manual de invocación satánica De umbrarum regni novem portis: Las nueve puertas del Reino de las Sombras. De Nueva York a Toledo y de París a Sintra, Corso se verá inmerso en un laberinto lleno de peligro, tentaciones, aterradoras sorpresas, violencia y muertes inesperadas.

Six friends start playing music under the name of Forbans, firmly determined to succeed. They soon find themselves in Martinique, embroiled in a series of abracadabre adventures.

The producers of this French film took approximately 100 people, put them on a soundstage and had them improvise this film based on the premise that they are on a spaceship escaping from the dictators of earth and only have a few days to live. Improvisation is a dangerous art-form; unprepared amateurs invariably come up with gross caricatures when challenged to improvise. The actors' choices in this film include an allegorical pageant of the life of Jesus, a marriage, an orgy, and some genuinely affectionate moments. Nonetheless, as an experimental effort in large-group improvisation, the film is instructive. - Clarke Fountain, Rovi