Mother
As we cannot summarize life of a person, we should not attempt to summarize a film. Why can't we see the beauty of things as they are - without understanding them?
Virginia
Evelyn Bell, a Catholic professor of theology, and her younger sister Virginia are reunited after many years when Virginia returns home in a depression after being ejected from a religious cult. At a lakeside retreat in Northeastern Pennsylvania, the sisters try to reestablish their relationship, talking about their very different systems of belief, and about the oppressive childhood that still hangs over them.
Mimi
Mimi and Michael are close friends after a brief and unsuccessful dating interlude years before. Michael has remained in love with Mimi over the years, but Mimi, who has just broken up with her long-time boyfriend, seems willing to try romance with Michael a second time. The spark between them is kindled again, however, during a weekend picnic outing, Mimi, suddenly enthusiastic, proposes to Michael abruptly. The two marry and head off on a honeymoon to Pennsylvania without ever having slept with each other.
Mother
1996 short film
The Woman
An American sergeant escapes a bloody massacre by German troops and flees into the fierce winter landscape. Wounded and seeking shelter he comes across a woman praying in a small barn. She tries to help but the German soldiers are in pursuit and closing in. What can they do?
Berenice (1832)
Berenice is a meditation on a dream of lost plenitude, and its inversion into decay. The events depicted in the film concern the formation and dissolution of a utopian community in 1832, and the psychic and physical disintegration of two members of that community. In an allusion to the interiority of the main character, Berenice, whose flashbacks form the film’s narrating consciousness, the oblique and inward-turning fictive structure gives itself over to delirious visual asides. The film is partially adapted from the Edgar Allan Poe story of the same name. Additional primary sources used in constructing the film include texts by the 19th-century French utopian Charles Fourier and the collected letters from Brook Farm.
Interviews in the Michael Moore/"Roger and Me" tradition examine life in small-town America, class conflicts and the collapse of an upstate New York community, Dadetown, when the town's once-prosperous factory, reduced to the manufacture of paper clips and staples, finally closes. Facing massive unemployment, the blue-collar Dadetown residents next find yuppies moving into town to staff the local division of a big computer outfit.
Patient No. 1
Mulher um dia fica doente sem motivo aparente. Seu médico não consegue encontrar o motivo e sugere que possa ser apenas coisa de sua mente. Quando seu marido passa a concordar com o médico, ela tem que lutar contra a descrença de todos para poder se curar.
Felicia Beacon
Três histórias intercaladas sobre marginais, sexo e violência. Em "Hero", Richie, aos 7 anos, mata seu pai e vai para longe. Após o evento, um documentário em cores palidamente elegantes pergunta o que aconteceu com o Richie e o que induziu aos tiros. No branco & preto "Horror", um cientista isola o elixir da sexualidade humana, o bebe e se torna um assassino fervoroso e contagioso; uma colega que o ama tenta ajudar, apesar do perigo. Em "Homo", um preso na prisão de Fontenal é atraído por um preso que conhecia alguns anos antes, no instituto juvenil de Baton, e cujas humilhações ele testemunhou. Esta história é contada em luz fraca, exceto pelos flashbacks brilhantes.
