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Adapted from the provocative novel by transgressive postmodern intellectual and author Georges Bataille, MA MERE is set in the visually lush and spiritually empty tourist trap of the Canary Islands. Louis Garrel, projecting the same European sultriness that was perfectly suited to Bertolucci`s more warmly erotic film THE DREAMERS, plays Pierre, a sulking and antisocial teenager, willfully indifferent to being on summer vacation with his parents. When his wayward father suddenly dies, his mother Helene (Isabelle Huppert), forces him into her universe of illicit sex--a simultaneously ugly and playful realm inhabited by Gallic sophisticates engaging in orgies and bondage. Pierre, a devout Catholic, is resistant at first--to the point of
Catholic guilt-induced attacks of sobbing and hyperventilation. But after fulfilling experiences with Helene`s male and female playmates, Pierre obsessively pursues the sexual attention of his own mother, and a disturbing quest toward consummation of the attraction between mere and fils is undertaken.Star Isabelle Huppert`s role as Helene is a perfect follow-up to her award-winning turn in the equally shocking LA PIANISTE, which featured the French fatale engaging in illicit acts with both a young male student and her own controlling, elderly mother. With her just barely constrained and visibly volatile sexual energy, the actress has become known as the
go-to girl
for roles that transcend sexual and social taboos and explore the dark and violent side of erotic desire. Her overpowering presence in MA MERE, as all great performances do, make the viewer wonder just how blurry the boundaries between actress and role have become.
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Choi is emotionally scarred by the experience of losing his parents as a child. That's why he is so surprised when he meets Kim, another orphan, and finds himself opening his heart to her. But Choi could lose Kim as easily as he falls in love with her, as she is dying from in incurable disease.DVD Features:Region (Unknown)Keep CaseWidescreen - 16.9Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - Korean Stereo - CantoneseInteractive Features: Scene Access
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Caterina (Margherita Buy) is a nun preparing to take her final vows. Stumbling across an abandoned baby, Catera takes care of the infant while she searches for the child's family. This leads her to Ernesto who assists in the parental search as well as Caterina's search for her own beliefs. Caterina's journey through the working class of Milan brings her to a realization that those who have beliefs not of this world are still bound by humanity and the span of human emotions.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.66Single Side - Dual LayerAdditional Release Material: Featurettes - 1. MAKING OF NOT OF THIS WORLD Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerText/Galleries: Biographies - 1. Giuseppe Piccioni - Director









2. Magherita Buy - Star









3. Silvio Orlando - Star









4. Luca Bigazzi - Director of Photography Photo Gallery
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Hanna Schygulla stars in this bleak Fassbinder drama as Effi Briest, a tomboyish seventeen year-old German girl living with her parents. Though simple, Effi still has some social ambition, ambition that causes her to accept a proposal of marriage fromBaron Geert Von Instetten, a Prussian diplomat who is much older than Effi. Unfortunately, neither the Baron's family nor anyone in the secluded town she now calls home accept Effi as an equal. Starved for companionship and finding none from her busy husband, Effi begins an innocent friendship with a well-known womanizer that may jeopardize even her tenuous position as the Baron's wife.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseFull FrameAudio: Mono - GermanInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Production Notes FilmographiesDVD-ROM Features: Web Links
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A poor grandmother struggles to save her grandson, through whose eyes we glimpse a magic-tinged view of a sugar cane plantation's backbreaking work and crushing poverty. Daring to rise above the alley lined with plantation laborers' shanties, from which the film takes its name, the grandmother risks all to get the boy a chance at an education.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAdditional Release Material: TrailersInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/ Photo Galleries: Biographies - 1. Euzhan Palcy - DirectorDVD-ROM Features: Web Links
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