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When France leaves her fiance at the altar, he is confused and upset, and so hires Luigi, a private detective, to track her movements. Luigi begins to discover a long string of spurned lovers in France's wake, and interviewing them he discovers that they had paid for France's services. Luigi is intrigued, and the deeper he inverstigates, the more obsessed he becomes with this mysterious woman who he has never met.DVD Features:Region 0Snap CaseAnamorphic WidescreenAudio: Stereo - French
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Based on a short story by Juan Rolfo, EL IMPERIO DE LA FORTUNA tells the story of Dionosio Pinzon, a Mexican peasant living with his mother. Born with a deformed hand, and living a very meager life, Dionosio's luck turns around when he is given a losing gamecock which he nurses back to health. He trains the bird for fighting, begins to make money, and begins a relationship with a gold-digging singer. As he makes money, though, he begins to become more and more corrupt--and it becomes apparent that his winning streak will not last. This story was also filmed by Roberto Gavaldon in 1965 as EL GALLO DE ORO (GOLDEN ROOSTER).DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull ScreenAudio: Dolby Digital 2.0 - SpanishInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene SelectionText/Photo Galleries: Cast Biographies
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Inspired by Fyodor Dostoyevsky s classic novel CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, Robert Bresson s PICKPOCKET tells the story of a man whose attraction to crime threatens to condemn him forever--spiritually as well as physically. Michel (Martin LaSalle), a young thief, is caught one afternoon, breaking his dying mother`s heart and shocking his friends. Fortunately for Michel, the police inspector (Jean Piligri) is unable to prosecute him, but the implications nonetheless sour Michel s once firm social standing. Trying to straighten his ways, Michel is again drawn to the criminal world, where under the tutelage of a master pickpocket he reverts back to thievery. All the while, his conscience nags at him, in the memory of his deceased mother as well as in the presence of Jeanne (Marika Green), a beautiful young woman who shows compassion toward the troubled Michel. Eventually, Michel s lucky streak ends, forcing him to find redemption in the most ironic of circumstances. Using his now-legendary simplistic storytelling style, Bresson is able to elevate his story to a supremely spiritual state, making for a stunningly powerful viewing experience. Delivering their lines slowly and somberly, the actors give the audience even more time for inner reflection, resulting in a cinematic masterwork.
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In director Werner Herzog's most conceptual and perhaps most challenging film, HEART OF GLASS, a small Bavarian town is plunged into a mysterious and haunted despair when the owner of the town's preindustrial glass factory dies, failing to pass on the secret formula for its special ruby-colored glass. The aesthetic and narrative paths merge as the film leads viewers deep into the hypnotic and at times gothic plight of the workers and townspeople who stumble through the town, mesmerized and dazed, verging on murder and madness.Herzog sets the tone not only with the highly stylized performances of his actors, who were actually hypnotized, but also by his signature attention to landscape and ethereal environments, creating a mystical plane of unreality. Vistas of fog-ensconced gothic landscapes merge hypnotically with magical interior scenes of premodern glassblowing as Herzog's evocatively absurd melodrama plays out its somnambulant trajectory toward a slow and submerged climax in which art and life collide in a symbolic and allegorical spectacle.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic - 1.66Audio: Mono - German Subtitles - English - OptionalAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Werner Herzog - Director, Norman Hill TrailersInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Production Notes Biographies - 1. Werner Herzog - Director
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Orthodox Jewish writer-director Joseph Cedar tells a story of romance and intrigue on an Israeli settlement on the West Bank in TIME OF FAVOR. Menachem (Aki Avni) is a deeply religious young man and a superb soldier. Thanks in part to the influence of Rabbi Meltzer (Assi Dayan), Menachem gets the chance to create his own elite Orthodox unit for the Israeli army. Menachem also has a quiet crush on the rabbi`s daughter, Michal (Tinkerbell). He and Michal are both distraught when the rabbi tries to arrange Michal`s marriage to his best Yeshiva student, Pini (Edan Alterman), who is also Menachem`s friend. Michal is a fiercely independent young woman, who resents her father`s devotion to
Greater Israel
at the expense of his family. The situation gets far more complicated when Menachem is implicated in a fanatical plot to blow up the Dome of the Rock, the mosque on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Cedar has created a moving romantic drama with elements of a tense political thriller, all captured against the beautiful backdrop of the Judean hills. Avni and Tinkerbell deliver nuanced and graceful performances. The film subtly extols the virtues of devout faith, while condemning religious and political fanaticism.
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