The film follows Herdis, an eight-year-old girl, during a rainy day in Bergen. Set against the backdrop of social hardship and class divisions in the early 20th century, the story portrays Herdis’s fragile inner world as she navigates her family’s disintegration and her loneliness and hope for connection. Her parents quarrel, prompting her to wander out into the rain, searching for playmates, but she instead encounters humiliation from older children and remains socially isolated. Based on the short story collection Trylleglasset by Torborg Nedreaas.
Tag: 1970s
Set against the urban backdrop of 1970s Buenos Aires, this experimental adaptation transplants Alice in Wonderland into the real world. Alice’s pursuit of the White Rabbit unfolds as a surreal drift through city spaces, where the familiar becomes strange and fantasy quietly overtakes reality.
A cadet at West Point is subjected to “internal exile”, which means that other students refuse to talk to him or acknowledge his existence, after he is accused of violating the school’s code of honor,
A doctor removed from the order for euthanasia is called by a man to help his son depressed since the suicide of his girlfriend. But in the handbag of the deceased, an undeveloped film is discovered by the doctor who decides to investigate the alleged suicide of the young woman.
A deliciously perverse rendition of Madame Bovary, The Stationmaster’s Wife is one of Fassbinder’s most entertaining films. Set in a small Bavarian town in pre-Hitler Germany, the film features Kurt Raab as the Stationmaster Bolwieser, a man sexually enslaved by his beautiful wife Hanni, a woman of uncontrollable passion. Soon bored with both her husband and life at the train station, Hanni embarks on a series of adulterous affairs, while the deluded Bolwieser grows progressively sullen and glum. The Stationmaster’s Wife is a haunting exploration of desire and betrayal, with a radiantly lusty performance by Elisabeth Trissenaar.
Highbrow Englishman, Lord Brett Sinclair and Bronx-born American fortune seeker, Danny Wilde seem an unlikely pair, but their friendship propels them on some wild and wacky adventures in Robert S. Baker’s LONDON CONSPIRACY.
A day in the life of Monika, an ordinary, modern (ca.1975) Swedish woman. Her surroundings are a lot sleeker than her daily existence, though; she’s unemployed, her husband is gone, and she’s alone in the midst of what ought to be the good life.
Teenagers Glen and Randa are members of a tribe that lives in a rural area, several decades after nuclear war has devastated the planet. They know nothing of the outside world, except that Glen has read about and seen pictures of a great city in some old comic books. He and Randa set out to find this city.