英国式庭園殺人事件 (1982)
A landscape of lust and cunning.
ジャンル : コメディ, 謎, ロマンス, 犯罪
上映時間 : 1時間 48分
演出 : Peter Greenaway
脚本 : Peter Greenaway
シノプシス
82年発表のグリーナウェイ長編劇映画第1作。名誉革命後、1694年の夏、英国南部のウィルトシャー。才能豊かだが傲慢さでも評判の画家ネヴィルが、コンプトン・アンスティのハーバート家の夜宴に招かれる。そこでハーバート夫人はネヴィルを別室に招じ入れ、ノイズ氏を立会人にして、夫が旅行から戻るまでに屋敷の画を12点描いてくれるように依頼し、契約を結ぶ。どこを描くかは自分が決めるという夫人。彼女は、1点につき8ポンドという高額の報酬を約束し、そして彼が望むがままに密会に応じることを約束するが……。
ローレンス・カスダン監督によるヒューマン・ドラマの秀作。大都会ロサンゼルスを舞台に、それぞれに人生の転換期を迎えた6人の男女のエピソードを群像劇タッチに描いている。
When news of John Smith's death reaches America, Pocahontas is devastated. She sets off to London with John Rolfe, to meet with the King of England on a diplomatic mission: to create peace and respect between the two great lands. However, Governor Ratcliffe is still around; he wants to return to Jamestown and take over. He will stop at nothing to discredit the young princess.
While on a journey of discovery in exotic India, beautiful young Ruth Barron falls under the influence of a charismatic religious guru. Her desperate parents then hire PJ Waters, a macho cult de-programmer who confronts Ruth in a remote desert hideaway. But PJ quickly learns that he's met his match in the sexy, intelligent and iron-willed Ruth.
In seventeenth century England Lord Whitman wages unending war on what he sees as the ever-present scourge of witchcraft, and many local villagers have suffered at his hands. But one victim uses her occult powers to curse his family, enlisting unknowing help from one of the household.
Daisy Kenyon is a Manhattan commercial artist having an affair with an arrogant and overbearing but successful lawyer named Dan O'Mara. O'Mara is married and has children. Daisy meets a single man, a war veteran named Peter Lapham, and after a brief and hesitant courtship decides to marry him, although she is still in love with Dan.
Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that forever stands as one of the darkest chapters in American history. For those accused of witchcraft by their neighbors and friends, there was little chance of clearing their names; the mass paranoia that ravaged through the community took the lives of 19 innocent men and women.
長い単身赴任を終え、妻アンナのもとに戻ったマルクは、妻の冷やかな態度に傷つく。ようやく、その不倫相手ハインリッヒと対峙するが、彼から“第三の相手”の存在をほのめかされたマルクもまた愛に苦しむ。だが一人息子ボブの通う学校にやって来たマルクはそこで妻と瓜二つの教師ヘレンと出会い、彼女に強く惹かれていく…。
A retelling of the life of the celebrated 17th-century painter through his brilliant, nearly blasphemous paintings and his flirtations with the underworld.
住み込みのメイドとして働く少女アビゲイルは主人ジョンとの情事に身を任せる。その関係をしったジョンの妻、エリザベスは、二人を引き離すべく、アビゲイルを解雇。だが、アビゲイルは性の快楽に目覚め、再び関係を迫るが、自分の家族を大切に思うジョンにとって、二人の関係は一夜限りのものにすぎなかった。やがて、アビゲイルは愛する男を取り戻すために、邪魔者エリザベスを陥れようと町中を巻き込んで、ある恐ろしい行動に出るのだった・・・。
When 12-year-old Ton transfers to an all-boys boarding school, he's taunted by his peers and terrified by their tales about the ghosts that inhabit the school. Ton is utterly miserable until he befriends a mysterious fellow pupil.
A coming of age dramedy where infidelity, real estate, and Lyme disease have two families falling apart on Long Island in the early eighties. Scott, 15, is at the point in his life when he finds out that the most important people around him, his father, his mother, and his brother, are not exactly who he thought they were. They are flawed and they are human.
Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs her to help convince the Persian Ambassador to agree to a treaty. However, what they didn't realize was that the handsome Persian was in fact a sexual sadist. So, it is up to the King's half- brother, some Hungarian prince, to save Angélique from the evil troll's clutches.
To escape a secure but stifling life with her workaholic husband Sudhir, bored housewife Simran begins an affair with Sunny, an ex-boyfriend from her college days. However, when Sudhir grows suspicious and hires a private detective, the infidelity soon comes to light.
1526年のある夜、グリニッチ宮殿の舞踏会で、ヘンリー八世は、アン・ブリンの美しい姿をみそめた。正妻カサリンとの間に子供のいないことに不満を感じていたヘンリーは、次第にアンに近づいていった。しかし、愛を告げるヘンリーを、アンは冷たく断った。自分の婚約者を左遷し、姉のメリーを身ごもらしたままに放っているヘンリーを、アンはむしろ憎んでいた。ヘンリーは、あきらめず王妃の侍女として宮廷に召しあげた。
Set at the end of the 1960s, as Swaziland is about to receive independence from United Kingdom, the film follows the young Ralph Compton, at 12, through his parents' traumatic separation, till he's 14.
第2次世界大戦後まもない1947年、ニューヨークから北アフリカへある夫婦が旅行にやってくる。かつて2人を取り巻いていた活気が薄れ、愛も夢もなくなってしまったことに気づいた夫婦は、この北アフリカで何かを発見できるのではないかと考えていたのだ。しかし、旅行を続ける内にかえって2人の関係は険悪になってゆく……。
Mia is a rebellious teenager on the verge of being kicked out of school. Her hard-partying mother, Joanne, neglects Mia's welfare in favor of her own, and her younger sister hangs out with a much older crowd. Sparks fly between Mia and Connor, Joanne's new boyfriend, and he encourages Mia to pursue her interest in dance. As the boundaries of the relationships become blurred, Mia and Joanne compete for Connor's affection.
Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.
Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the male actor's success at playing women. And because this is the 17th century, Maria, like other females, is prohibited from pursuing her dream of acting. But when powerful people support her, King Charles II lifts the ban on female stage performers. And just as Maria aided Ned, she needs his help to learn her new profession.
An unemployed Cowboy who can't find love vows to stay on a barstool for three months. Shortly thereafter, he meets a young female art student and quickly forgets his misery. The pair begin to transform each other's worlds while spending time drinking, dancing and examining the mysteries of life. Will the Cowboy finally find love or should he have just stayed on his barstool?
19-year-old Linnéa leaves her small town in Sweden and heads for Los Angeles with the aim of becoming the world's next big porn star, but the road to her goal turns out to be bumpier than she imagined.
Twin zoologists lose their wives in a car accident and become obsessed with decomposing animals.
The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.
The wife of an abusive criminal finds solace in the arms of a kind regular guest in her husband's restaurant.
大富豪マイルズ・ブロンにより開催されたギリシャのプライベートアイランドでのパーティー。そこへ名探偵ブノワ・ブランが降り立ち、多彩な容疑者たちが巻き起こす事件の謎に迫る。2020年、世界がパンデミックに襲われロックダウンが相次ぐ中、億万長者のマイルズ・ブロンは、ギリシャにあるプライベート・アイランドに友人たちを招待し、そこで殺人ミステリーゲームを開催する。招待したはずのない名探偵のブノワ・ブランも招かれたと言って現れて、ゲームに参加するが、やがて殺人が起こり、事件に巻き込まれることになる。
