A journey into the labyrinthine heart of ideology, which shapes and justifies both collective and personal beliefs and practices: with an infectious zeal and voracious appetite for popular culture, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek analyzes several of the most important films in the history of cinema to explain how cinematic narrative helps to reinforce prevailing ethics and political ideas.
After experiencing a tragedy, Irish brothers Dara and Eoin move to rural France, where they become friends with young Bella, whose beauty and charm bewitches the emotionally unstable Dara.
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Пиг и Рант, Поросенок и Свинка, родились в один день, в одном роддоме. Два ребенка, неразлучные с рождения, они так близки, что не нуждаются больше ни в ком, существуя в своем уютном и опасном мирке, в котором они придумали свои собственные правила и разговаривают на своем только им понятном языке. Два подростка, с неуемным аппетитом к разрушению, купаются в своих преступных забавах. Но незадолго до семнадцатилетия гармония их идеального мира дала трещину. Половое созревание и растущая ревность Поросенка поставила под угрозу существование их интимной вселенной. Не смирившись с возможностью утраты своей второй половинки, герой вступает на путь насилия и жестокости. Неразлучная парочка на грани разрыва, и выживет из них только тот, кто отважится освободиться от этих безумных уз.
Melissa Gilbert stars as Marygold/Meredith. A sad and lonely writer returning to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or 7 years old,after being adopted and raised in America. While there she decides to look for her mother's grave,and finds out her memories are not exactly what she thought they were,her mother is alive. She then sets out to find her mother and some answers and finds both. She also falls in love, of course, but has a problem with long term commitments...
Bosco Hogan plays Joyce's alter-ego, Stephen Daedelus, growing up in Ireland in the early part of the 20th century, and at odds with the strictures of his Catholic home and family. The film charts his search for knowledge and understanding, during a decline in his family's circumstances, that leads him to revelations on the nature of art, beauty and politics. However his personal renaissance makes him feel unwelcome in his own country, and forces him to make a choice between exile as artist or staying and facing personal defeat.
