The House of Light (1969)
ジャンル : ドラマ
上映時間 : 1時間 18分
演出 : Jean Pierre Lefebvre
シノプシス
This plodding piece of cinematic ambiguity finds a married couple engaged in boring conversation in a window as scenery changes behind them. When they manage to talk about love, some of the tedium is lifted in the wake of their amorous verbiage. This black and white effort from Jean Pierre Lefebvre depends on symbolic impressionism rather than plot.
A young girl lost in the loneliness and boredom of reality finds solace in an ill boy, whom she can visit in a surreal dream world that she drew in her school composition book.
Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent, goes to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar. Once Jonathan is caught under his evil spell, Dracula travels to Wismar where he meets the beautiful Lucy, Jonathan's wife, while a plague spreads through the town, now ruled by death.
Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980 Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. Even as she does her best to transform the old dairy farm into a place where young daughter Franny will be happy, Catherine increasingly finds herself isolated and alone. She soon comes to sense a sinister darkness lurking both in the walls of the ramshackle property—and in her marriage to George.
Two couples on an oceanside getaway grow suspicious that the host of their seemingly perfect rental house may be spying on them. Before long, what should have been a celebratory weekend trip turns into something far more sinister.
突然の交通事故で命を落とした夫は幽霊となって思いを残す我が家へ戻り、人知れず妻を見守り続ける。やがて悲しみの癒えた妻が家を去った後も、彼は家に残り彼女との思い出を探し続ける。さらに時が過ぎ、新しい家族が越してきては去り、すっかり古びてしまった家が壊されて無くなってもなお。
Ethan is suffering enormous guilt after his parents are killed in a car accident. He quits a promising future at MIT and work on a revolutionary experiment in order to care for his younger siblings.
ジョンは恋人エレインと結婚を間近に控え、幸せの絶頂にいた。だがある日、彼らのもとを訪れた実姉パティにとあるビデオを見せられ、状況は一変する。そのビデオには、昔ジョンが可愛がっていた姪のノリーンに“もしハーバード大学に合格したら学費を払ってあげる”と軽いノリで約束を交わしているシーンが。ノリーンは本当にハーバードに合格し、この約束も真に受けられていた。高い学費を払うハメになった人の良いジョンは、誰からも工面の協力を得られないため、最後に高校時代からの友人で変わり者のダフに助けを求めるのだが…。
建築事務所に勤めるジョージ・モンローは42歳の建築デザイナー。父親との確執が原因で、自分の息子ともうまくコミュニケーションがとれなかった。ついには妻にも逃げられ、上司との摩擦から会社もクビになる。挙げ句の果てに医者から余命3ヵ月との宣告を受けてしまう。再婚して幸せに暮らす妻。そしていまだに父を憎み続ける16歳になる息子。ジョージは初めて自分の人生に疑問を感じた。そして、昔からの夢だった自分の家を建て直すことを決意する。最後の夏、ジョージは反発する息子を無理やり手伝わせ、手造りの家を建て始めた……。
全米ベストセラー小説を元に製作されたジェニファー・コネリー主演のサスペンス映画。一軒の家を巡って対立する二人の男女の悲劇を描く。2004年度アカデミー賞主要3部門にノミネートされた。
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Henry Poole abandons his fiancée and family business to spend what he believes are his remaining days alone. The discovery of a 'miracle' by a nosy neighbor ruptures his solitude and restores his faith in life.
フロリダで怠惰な生活を送っていた少女パーシーは、母ロレーンの死を知り、故郷のニューオーリンズに戻る。そこでパーシーは、母の家に住み着き、母を看取った見知らぬ2人の男、母の友人と名乗る元英文学教授で初老のアルコール中毒の男ボビーとその助手で作家志望の青年ローソンと出会う。幼い頃から離れて暮らしていた母のことを知りたくなったパーシーは、彼らと3人で共同生活を始める。
Faye, a former actress that lost her vision due to botched laser eye surgery, struggles to put her life back together while living alone in her dream house in the Hollywood Hills. Supported by her friend Sophia, she starts opening up to Luke, a personal trainer who is mute and can only communicate through his cell phone. When a masked stranger named Pretty Boy shows up, Faye will realize that she isn't as alone as she thinks.
Fledgling screenwriters retreat to a quiet country manor to work on their script, but a constellation of needy characters produces constant interruptions.
Saraswathiyamma is the head of a noble family that treats her servant Krishnan as one of her own sons. When her relatives conspire to sell her house, she and Krishnan set out to save it.
A teenage girl is plagued by bizarre occurrences and deaths related to her new home.
Salma Zidane, a widow, lives simply from her grove of lemon trees in the West Bank's occupied territory. The Israeli defence minister and his wife move next door, forcing the Secret Service to order the trees' removal for security. The stoic Salma seeks assistance from the Palestinian Authority, Israeli army, and a young attorney, Ziad Daud, who takes the case. In this allegory, does David stand a chance against Goliath?
When Steve Dallas, a womanizing local weatherman, hears that his off-the-grid best friend Ben Baker has lost his estranged father, the two return to Ben's childhood home. Once there, they discover Ben has inherited the family fortune, and the ill-equipped duo must battle Ben's formidable sister and deal with his father's gorgeous 25-year old widow.