#218 – Tabu, 2012, Miguel Gomes
When Pilar’s befriended neighbour Aurora dies, Pilar starts to dig into Aurora’s past and learns about Aurora’s very tragic love story.
Tag: Germany
#248: The Marriage of Maria Braun
#248 – The Marriage of Maria Braun, (Die Ehe der Maria Braun), 1979, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Near the end of World War II, Maria marries Hermann, who is immediately sent off to battle. When the war concludes, Maria believes that Hermann is dead. She starts working at an Allied bar, where she meets American soldier Bill. They start a relationship that is interrupted when Hermann returns alive. During a scuffle between the men, Maria accidentally kills Bill. Hermann takes the blame and goes to jail, while Maria begins a hard new life.
#252: Waltz with Bashir
#252 – Waltz with Bashir, (Vals Im Bashir), 2008, Ari Folman
Director and Israeli army veteran Ari Folman interviews friends and former soldiers about their memories of the 1982 Lebanon war and especially the Sabra and Shatila massacre in Beirut. The usage on animation enabled Folman to illustrate their personal memories and dreams.
#253: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
#253 – Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, (ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ), 2010, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave—the birthplace of his first life.
#267: Fitzcarraldo
#267 – Fitzcarraldo, 1982, Werner Herzog
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
#273: The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
#273 – The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, (Die bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant), 1972, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer – arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra falls in love with Karin and invites her to move in.
#277: The Blue Angel
#277 – The Blue Angel, (Der blaue Engel), 1930, Josef von Sternberg
Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette – whose job is to entice men – proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
#289: Tropical Malady
#289 – Tropical Malady, (สัตว์ประหลาด), 2004, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
‘Tropical Malady’ explores the passionate relationship between two men with unusual consequences. The film is divided in two parts. The first half charts the modest attraction between two men in the sunny, relaxing countryside and the second half charts the confusion and terror of an unknown menace lurking deep within the jungle shadows.
#319: Marketa Lazarová
#319 – Marketa Lazarová, 1967, František Vláčil
Mikolás and his brother Adam rob travelers for their tyrannical father Kozlík. During one of their “jobs” they end up with a young German hostage whose father escapes to return news of the kidnapping and robbery to the King. Kozlik prepares for the wrath of the King, and sends Mikolás to pressure his neighbor Lazar to join him in war. Persuasion fails, and in vengeance Mikolás abducts Lazar’s daughter Marketa, just as she was about to join a convent. The King, meantime, dispatches an army and the religious Lazar will be called upon to join hands against Kozlik. Stripped-down, surreal, and relentlessly grimy account of the shift from Paganism to Christianity.
#324: The Lives of Others
#324 – The Lives of Others, (Das Leben der Anderen), 2006, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the system.
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