Russian Ark is a tour through Russian culture via the St. Petersburg museum-cum-palace The Hermitage. I really can’t tell you much about the story, though (what story there is involves the narrator and a French man he somehow meets as he travels through The Hermitage’s history and their discussion of Russian culture–the French guy is [...]
Talk to Her twines together two stories, one of a young man loving a ballerina from afar and becoming her nurse when she is put in a coma by a car accident, the other of a journalist and a female bullfighter who is gored by a bull and ends up comatose in the same hospital. [...]
A “Spanish apartment” is a French phrase connoting something into which you put a bunch of varied elements and see what comes out. In the case of this film, it literally refers to an apartment in Barcelona housing seven to nine students from all over Europe. The main character is French, and he goes to [...]
In an indeterminate future, it has been decided that the reason for all the world’s problems with war and violence are caused by the fact that people have emotions.
