Dark Night, Calcutta (1964)
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Runtime : 24M
Director : Marin Karmitz
Sinopse
Marin Karmitz's avant-garde short film is a haunting tale about an alcoholic novelist facing a crippling case of writer's block.
In Voyage of a Hand, Ruiz constructs another of his concentric labyrinths that hits us right in the multifaceted center of our confusion. We might decide that what we receive was a story full of intentions; or we might decide that it was a spineless joke empty of sense or direction. In any case, it will be difficult to deny the acid sense of humor that animates the film.
Philippe Noiret plays a rich, Parisian banker whose daughter, Carolina, is kidnapped by a ruthless organization. They threaten to have her abused by the sadistic clients of a brothel they run if Father doesn’t pay the ransom on time.
Collage of dramatic scenes, some exaggerated to comic effect, with asynchronous sound from well known classic, operatic, and rock and roll music – with different approaches to love, suffering, and death.
Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures.
An elderly millionaire manipulates an avant-garde writer and a happily married man.
Numa praia do Mediterrâneo vivem uma mulher e o seu filho adulto Albert. Albert, que deseja o jovem Fernando, rapta-o, aprisiona-o e começa a controlar-lhe a vida, dando-lhe banho e alimentando-o com as rosas perfeitas que ele cultivou...
An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. He hears of a rare series of engravings and embarks on a search for them that takes him through the mysterious streets of the ancient medina. He becomes obsessed with the figure of a beautiful blond woman dressed in white that he sees there. but it appears that she may have died years before.
A Walter é solicitado por parte da sua chefe, Sara, entregar uma carta urgente a Henri de Corinto. No caminho, ele encontra uma bela mulher que ele tinha anado a micar num clube noturno, caída na estrada, atada. Ele leva-a para uma casa de campo para obter um médico, e acaba sendo trancada num quarto com ela. Enquanto ela está a fazer amor com ele, ele tem visões de imagens surrealistas das pinturas de René Magritte. De manhã, a rapariga, Marie-Ange, desapareceu, a casa parece abandonada, e o pescoço dele está a sangrar. Foi tudo apenas um pesadelo?
Werner Schroeter mixes Stravinsky, Beethoven, Brahms, Maria Callas and Janis Joplin in this delirious biography of the doomed nineteenth-century mezzo-soprano.
