For some of the most amazing characters you come across in history, just how they fit into the picture only becomes clear after a long time. 'Their biographical narratives go far beyond themselves,’ Christoffer Boe rightly commented about the protagonists of this black tragicomedy: tour operator Simon Spies (played by R and Borgen star Pilou Asbaek) and tax lawyer Mogens Glistrup (the equally well-known Nicolas Bro).
Joe, 40, is as unbearable as he is charming... A gifted estate agent, capable of selling a hovel for the price of a castle, he's an emotional wreck, and a walking disaster as a husband and father. Joe lives in a big house in the country, and above all else, he hates his old neighbour. Her crumbling ruin of a property, her overgrown mess of a garden, her pack of flea-ridden animals... Joe hates everything about her. And to top it all, Blanche –who loathes her neighbourasmuch as he detests her - seems to have the gift of eternal life.
Allan Karlsson is about to celebrate his hundredth birthday, and a birthday party is planned at his retirement home. Allan is alert despite his age, but not so interested in the party. Instead he steps out the window and disappears. He gets hold of a suitcase of drug money and becomes chased by both drug dealers and the police.
The eccentric life and vision of Soviet-era director Sergei Paradjanov -- a unique artist championed by the likes of Fellini, Godard, Antonioni and Tarkovsky - are artfully suggested more than fully documented in the suitably offbeat biopic Paradjanov, from Ukrainian writer-director Olena Fetisova and French-Armenian actor-director Serge Avedikian, who also plays the lead.
The film is set in Ghent, Belgium, and explores the lives of Didier and Elise over seven years as they fall in love through their passion for bluegrass music. They have a daughter, Maybelle, who develops cancer after her sixth birthday, and succumbs to it within a year. Maybelle's death has a devastating effect on their relationship and their lives.
In 2004, at the age of 56, Catherine Breillat suffered a serious stroke. Her left side was initially paralyzed and after five months in the hospital she worked like a demon to walk again. Not long after, she prepared an adaptation of her novel Bad Love and decided to cast the notorious "swindler of the stars", Christophe Rocancourt, fresh from a jail term for fraud. Over the next several months, Rocancourt took advantage of Breillat’s condition and stood by her side as she wrote him checks amounting to €650,000.
This light and funny tale jumps around in space and time as Xavier remembers different episodes from his life and tells these alongside current events. This is also whilst he is asking for advice from some philosophers (in order to try and make sense of it all). The ensemble cast put on an excellent show and really manage to capture the unusual quirkiness, farce and confusion that underpins this strange, modern life.
Nutsa, a young mother, lives with her two children in a suburbs of Tblisi in Georgia. Her partner Goga is in prison. They get married, so she gains the right to talk to him once a month in the visiting room on the other side of the glass. The ceremony is quick with a strange ambiance. Goga in prison, Nutsa with children outside, a routine sets in.
Poland 1962. ANNA is a beautiful eighteen-year-old woman, preparing to become a nun at the convent where she has lived since orphaned as a child. She learns she has a living relative she must visit before taking her vows, her motherʼs sister WANDA.
“La Distancia” is the story of a robbery that combines suspense with science fiction, using touches of surreal humour to reach an intriguing and subversive film commitment. Vasiliy Lébedev was a young peasant from Crimea who decided to go to Siberia to work in a coal mine. With his sense of opportunity, his lack of scruples and taking advantage of the end of Perestroika, he quickly landed a position at the helm of one of the most important Power Plants in Siberia.