Themes of Inspiration (1938)

A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From François I's armor to Guynemer's airplane, to Napoleon's and Marshall Foch's tombs. But this is no ordinary tour,it is rather a chilling visit guided by Georges Franju and narrated by Michel Simon emphasizing - at times through biting humor -not the glory but the nonsense of wars, but their tragic aftermath.

This short documentary, shot in the glass factories of Leerdam and Schiedam, demonstrates how glass blowers do their work. But thanks to the superbly edited ballet of working hands and the sequence of mechanical motions of the engines, is it especially a cinematic tour de force. That the industry can’t do without man’s involvement is shown in the scene where we hear the voice of Haanstra himself counting the bottles on the conveyor belt, until one bottle breaks…

An early example of ultra-realism, this movie contrasts the quiet, bucolic life in the outskirts of Paris with the harsh, gory conditions inside the nearby slaughterhouses. Describes the fate of the animals and that of the workers in graphic detail.

In Our Nazi, we are plunged into a situation we barely, and only slowly, understand: the filming of Thomas Harlan’s experimental feature Wundkanal (1984), in which true-life ex-SS officer Alfred Filbert, now very old, is ‘put on trial’ for the camera, without him suspecting what is to come or why he is really there. Kramer’s confronting film is an essay about the sticky complicity of everyone present at this event, each bringing their own history, their own political ideology, their own desires to take revenge, to seek redemption or compassion, or just to put their heads down and ‘get the job done’ professionally, or (in the case of Filbert) to be a star, a part of the magnificent, magical, seductive world of cinema, even if it kills him.

A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.

A group of young people are organizing. One night, they face the police who came to evacuate an African squat. Carmen meets Hussain, a young afghan poet. Crazy in love, they don’t leave each other. But a curse hangs over the city, papers are carrying death, bodies are falling. Panicked at the idea that he could get arrested, Carmen forbids him to go out, and locks herself with him. Gradually, Hussain get the feeling that she is watching him…

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…。

ある事故により、妻のイーデンと共に心に深い傷を追った揚げ句に離婚したウィル。それから2年後、消息が不明だったイーデンからディナーに招かれる。以前恋人のキーラと暮らしていた屋敷に向かったウィルは、明るさを取り戻した彼女の姿に安堵を覚える。しかし、集まった友人とイーデンのぎこちない会話や、彼女の恋人だというデヴィッドの怪しい行動に不安を抱き…。