Herself
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunites. But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity? This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most influential creators of the digital era.
Priscilla Wolfenden
Fifty years ago, a Home Office committee chaired by Wolfenden, then vice-chancellor of Reading University, recommended the decriminalization of homosexuality. But behind the scenes of what was to become a turning point in British social history, there was an even more extraordinary story. Jack's son Jeremy, then a brilliant undergraduate at Oxford, was himself gay, something his father could not bring himself to acknowledge.
Claire Clairmont
Descubra como a vida pessoal de Mary Shelley influiu em sua obra mais famosa. Quase 200 anos depois que Frankenstein fora publicado, ainda estamos fascinados e tememos os alcances que tem a ciência nos mistérios da vida.
Zoe
Cupid is an embittered alcoholic and the world has fallen apart.
Georgia
Os Foxley (Peter OToole, Joan Plowright) são a quintessência da aristocracia britânica que faliu nos tempos difíceis. Buscando fundos para manter seu estilo de vida, eles relutantemente concordam em alugar seu castelo. As coisas pioram quando são forçados a passar por serviçais da casa. Mas estes nobres britânicos nem imaginam pelo que passarão quando receberem seus novos hóspedes, os integrantes da Global Heresy, a banda de rock mais quente da América, liderada por Alicia Silverstone.
Michelle
Chloe Keane (Jessica Alba) é uma top model londrina que, sentindo-se cansada após fazer um trabalho nos Estados Unidos, resolve aceitar o convite de um amigo com quem tivera um "amasso promissor" para passar um fim de semana no campo. Ao chegar lá descobre que ele é casado, pois Eve (Gina Bellman), a mulher dele, apareceu. Na manhã seguinte Chloe constata que ele partiu, assim como os outros convidados. Com isso ela se torna prisioneira de Stan (Iain Glen), o dono da casa, que a algema numa cama. Este gesto é apoiado por Rachel (Jeanne Tripplehorn), a mulher dele, e Gordon (Ewen Bremner), uma espécie de empregado.
Sarah From Brighton
A timid, insecure popular author with an overly-attentive professor husband decide to write an erotic novel. With encouragement from her sister and a bi-sexual friend, she goes to France with the intent of doing research at an inn where a diary she had been using documented erotic encounters. Instead she finds the inn is now a cloister for singing nuns. However, a young, divorced sound engineer is also there taping the nuns. While attracted, she mostly succumbs only to new fantasies until he follows her home to New York.
Ellen Beckenham
Soon to be married lawyer Kate Beckenham has landed the case of a lifetime. Her courtroom opponent turns out to be the charming Jack Sullivan, who has never lost a single case.
