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舞台はイリノイ州シカゴ郊外。ある朝ベッドでテレビの討論番組を見ていたジョンQ（デンゼル・ワシントン）は表でがちゃがちゃと何かの機械が動く音に気付き、血相を変えて飛び出すとローンの不払いで妻デニーズ（キンバリー・エリース）の車が差し押さえられ回収されようとしているところだった。ジョンは妻が仕事に行けなくなる、と訴えるが差し押さえ人はそれならローンを払え、と冷たく言い放ち、妻の車は無情にも回収された。ジョンはつい最近会社のリストラの対象となり、フルタイム（正社員）からパートタイム（バイト）に格下げされ、給料が目減りして生活が苦しかったのだ。朝食の席でも眉間にしわを寄せて新聞の求人広告欄をにらみ新しい収入源を見つけようと必死になった。パートタイムに格下げされたため仕事は半日で終わり、工場勤務のため不慣れなネクタイを締めて副業を手に入れようと面接を受けるが「資格過剰」を理由に落とされ続けた。
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Legendary actor Patrick McGoohan turns his famous character from THE PRISONER upside down as the psychiatrist in charge of an insane asylum. He has connected his inmates into a group mind where they share each other's psychoses, dreams and sexuality with all the scary and titillating implications imaginable! Like his highly acclaimed cult classic MASSACRE AT CENTRAL HIGH, director Rene Daalders provocative excursion into sci fi-horror filmmaking looks at first glance like a classic grindhouse movie, but it is up to much more. In addition to its operatic mayhem, HYSTERIA is a mind-expanding reflection on individual vs. group consciousness, power, control, and freedom.
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On a wedding day, women are confined to the kitchen to prepare the meal while the men wait to be served. While men talk politics and sports, women talk about their condition. A teenager observes the gap between the sexes. Co-directed by two actresses, Paule Baillargeon and Frederique Collin, The Red Kitchen is the birth of the Quebec women's cinema. The birth of the film was difficult, and funding has been largely achieved through donations from friends and a benefit concert. This war of the sexes takes place in a demanding formal research, based on the improvisation of the actors, whose preparation took place over long sessions in the workshop. The end result mixes black humour, horror and a very expressive fantasy that gave rise to heated debates.
