Camera (2000)
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Runtime : 1H 20M
Director : Richard Martini
Sinopse
Story of a video camera that goes on an adventure around the world. It's stolen, pawned, bought and generally goes in and out of bedrooms, shoots commercials, follows the life of an average ordinary video camera that goes around the planet until it winds up in the hands of filmmaker Richard Martini. This film has been designated at Dogma #15 by the Danish film group Dogme95.
O patriarca Helge traz toda a família para o seu hotel, para comemorar seu aniversário de sessenta anos. A festa era apenas uma típica comemoração burguesa até o filho mais velho do aniversariante fazer o seu discurso de homenagem ao pai e revelar uma história doméstica que ninguém poderia esperar.
Um grupo de pessoas finge sempre ter problemas mentais, argumentando ser contra a hipocrisia da classe média. Nos momentos em que estão em contato com outras pessoas e até mesmo aqueles em que estão sozinhos, deixam o seu "idiota interior" aflorar. Em um restaurante o grupo encontra Karen, uma mulher que parece não ter preconceitos contra a quebra dos rituais burgueses feita por eles e a levam para a casa onde moram todos juntos.
No subúrbio de uma cidade dinamarquesa, um jovem pastor chega para trabalhar na igreja local e é persuadido por um assistente a freqüentar aulas de italiano em um curso noturno. Não demora muito e o sacerdote torna-se o centro de um grupo de pessoas para quem o destino reservou golpes um tanto duros, e, aos poucos, cada uma delas vai tentando superar seus problemas, buscando a melhor solução.
Kresten, newly wed, is on the threshold of a great career success in his father-in-law´s company. But when the death of his own father takes him back to his poverty-stricken childhood home, far out in the country, his career plans fall apart. For one thing he has to deal with his loveable, backward brother, who is now all alone; for another, he meets a stunning woman who comes to the farm as a housekeeper, in disguise of her real profession as a call-girl.
Undiagnosed, untreated and generally untethered schizophrenic Julien lives with his pregnant younger sister Pearl, would-be wrestler brother Chris, sympathetic grandmother, and severely depressed German father.
Cæcilie (Sonja Richter) e Joachim (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) são namorados e estão prestes a se casar. Só que a felicidade do casal acaba quando ele é atropelado e fica tetraplégico. Procurando consolo, Cæcilie começa a ter um caso com o médico Niels (Mads Mikkelsen), casado com a mulher que atropelou Joachim. Produção dirigida sob os preceitos do Dogma, que repudia qualquer tipo de intervenção tecnológica na confecção de um filme.
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Onze passageiros de um ônibus se abrigam em meio às ruínas de uma cidade fantasma. À medida que o resgate se torna cada vez mais remoto surge entre eles a idéia de montar em pleno deserto a peça Rei Lear, de William Shakespeare, como forma de passar o tempo e atenuar as tensões crescentes. "Não demorará muito para que estejamos brigando uns contra os outros por um gole de água" vaticina um personagem no filme. As malditas interrelações humanas encenadas com o texto shakespeariano não superam a incapacidade de conviver em grupo harmonicamente. "O estupendo streap tease das necessidades humanas" diz um personagem em certa altura.
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Peter and Chris, two young American friends in their late 20s, go from South Dakota to California on a scooter, and as they travel across the American landscape they see their country through different eyes, ranging from Peter's cynically nihilistic point of view, to Chris' high expectations and romantic notions of the United States.
Katrine vai casar-se. O noivo é lindo, o apartamento deles é luxuoso e os seus futuros sogros são ricos. Katrine só tem um problema: ela às vezes tem dificuldade em dizer a verdade, e isso fá-la incorrer em passeios divagantes com um velho amigo, Thomsen, que acaba de aparecer sem aviso prévio vindo do Quénia e que quer devolver um favor e ajudar Katrine com seus preparativos para o casamento. Uma excursão labiríntica ocorre. Amanhã é outro dia, o dia do casamento!
A French woman falls in love with a Yugoslavian man, not realizing that he is an illegal immigrant.
P. is a little girl's imaginary friend who lives inside the wall of her room. But one day he magically materialises and so must learn to live in the world like everyone else - a world where he is met with suspicion and hate but also with wonder and love.
Sonia, the daughter of a prominent publisher, is about to fulfill her lifelong dream of marrying Rosendo, a promising writer with homosexual tendencies, who pines for his fiancee far less than he does for the brand new literary award launched by his future father-in-law. The wedding shindig will bring its share of unexpected surprises. This is a film is part of the DOGME 95 Movement, described as follows: 'the goal of the Dogme collective is to purify film-making by refusing expensive and spectacular special effects, post-production modifications and other gimmicks. The emphasis on purity forces the filmmakers to focus on the actual story and on the actors' performances. Given these restrictions the story and the action of DIAS DE BODA ('WEDDING DAYS') seem much more immediate and the lapses in fluidity of the story can be forgiven - to a point.
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