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Laia Marull stars in this crime drama as Tony, a tough girl from a poor neighborhood in Spain. When she and her boyfriend decide to hold up a lottery office with two other friends, he strands their accomplices at the scene. Pursued by both the cops and their friends, Tony and her boyfriend briefly hole up at a relative's, where he disappears. Now, Tony must take care of her boyfriend's niece while she avoids the cops and her extremely angry friends.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseInteractive Features: Trailers Scene Access Interactive MenusDVD-ROM: Web Links
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A working class illiterate, Giovanni (Enrico Lo Verso), takes in his younger brother Pietro (Francesco Giuffrida). Sicilians displaced in late 1950s Turin, Italy, they struggle to get by with Giovanni working odd jobs while he pressures Pietro to keep with his studies. An economic shift in Italy sends the two brothers along decidedly different paths. The moralistic Giovanni finds himself profiting from the boom through ill-gotten gains while the irresponsible Pietro sticks with his schooling and becomes a respected teacher. Their roles now completely reversed, Pietro proves himself a responsible adult by covering for the corrupt actions of his brother.Writer-director Gianni Amelio (L'AMERICA) presents this six-part saga about the economic influence on family roles and values. Each part is titled with a one-wordtheme such as Blood or Money. These sections comprise one day in each of the story's six years, using subtleties of character and plot to relate the account of the two brothers. A work rich in emotion, THE WAY WE LAUGHED deftly weaves the tales of individuals, family, and a nation into one cohesive narrative.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseWidescreenAdditional Release Material: Foreign TrailerInteractive Features: Scene Selections
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Director Werner Herzog's second feature film is a triumph of cinematic irreverence and uncompromising creativity. A cast that's comprised entirely of dwarfs stages an uproarious and chaotic rebellion in a remote and picturesque mountain asylum of undetermined purpose. Shot in harsh yet sumptuous black and white, the film features the upturned idyll of the sanitarium playing host to the erotically obsessed and absurdly acting dwarfs as they create a microcosm of the real world's ridicules. Unforgettable images, such as a group of blind dwarfs wearing oversize darkened goggles while hobbling along a mountain path and a dwarf couple attempting to consummate their relationship by leaping from a stack of magazines onto the conjugal bed, make EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL a thoroughly challenging visual experience as well as a compelling allegory for society and its outcasts. As the visual absurdity of the film reaches a sort of slow-motion fever pitch, Herzog's innate humanism injects the seemingly inhuman scenario with a deep pathos that captures viewers' attention as well as sympathy.Contains additional liner notes on the reverse side of the cover sleeve.
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In this slow yet charming Iranian film from 2001, Reza (Hamid Jebelli) is a well-meaning young man who suffers from mental problems. Whiling away the hours working in a bridal shop, Reza finds it difficult to make friends in the human world, so he divides his time between talking to the mannequins in the shop and communicating with his dead mother, whom he visits every day in the local cemetery. But Reza`s life is irrevocably changed when he falls hopelessly in love with a bride-to-be who visits the shop, and this heartwarming tale ends with a gently satisfying climax.
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For his 27th film, the
sensei
of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare`s KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which translates as
chaos
or
turmoil,
is the tragic tale of Lord Hidetora, a warlord who decides to divide his empire among his three sons on the eve of his 70th birthday. However, Hidetora`s youngest and most compassionate son, Saburo, defiantly objects to this hasty decision and is disowned by the proud, stubborn ruler. Once the two eldest sons take control of the empire, they quickly turn on their father and begin vying for total control over the land. As Hidetora is banished from his own kingdom in a bloody battle, he must confront the consequences of his violent, ruthless past. Ten years in the making, RAN represents the culmination of Kurosawa`s career by revisiting his skill at adapting Shakespeare, as evidenced in THRONE OF BLOOD, and displaying the cinematic splendor of his other landmark films such as SEVEN SAMURAI and RASHOMON. With its magnificent costumes, breathtaking settings, and amazingly photographed battle sequences, the film is truly stunning. An epic on the grandest of scales, RAN is not only one of Kurosawa`s finest films, it is a glorious masterpiece of Japanese cinema.
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