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 La femme enfantYear: 1980 Country: France, West Germany Actors and Actresses: Pénélope Palmer Tags: bathing girl Review: Klaus Kinski has done a lot of strange things on screen, but he may never before have lain smiling as his face was whipped with colored petticoats or have ministered to a constipated cow. These are some memorable moments from Raphaele Billetdoux's ''La Femme Enfant,'' a film that is otherwise on the dull side. It depicts a half-formed love affair between an 11-year-old French girl and a mute, middleaged peasant gardener. And it follows a predictable pattern, even if its emphasis is distinctly on the strange. ''La Femme Enfant,'' which opens today at the Lincoln Plaza, takes place mostly at the cottage of Marcel (Mr. Kinski), which is in marked contrast to the drab quarters young Elizabeth (Penelope Palmer) shares with her parents. The parents, who run a small-town beauty parlor, spend their mealtimes silently in a dreary kitchen, whereas Marcel's place is filled with domestic wonders. He keeps a pet bunny, hangs herb bouquets from the ceiling, covertly knits - he's making Elizabeth a sweater - and simply does wonders with potted ferns. Together, Marcel and Elizabeth enjoy the kind of innocence possible only in movies, particularly in French movies. They lie together and pat one another sweetly. They play games, as when Elizabeth hops on the table and pretends she is feeding imaginary barnyard chickens. Marcel draws Elizabeth an old-fashioned bath, boiling the water on his stove and brushing it with (presumably) aromatic branches. They cuddle together in a duck blind, which is surrounded by a beautiful pond and linked to the world by a tiny isthmus and a fragile gate. Settings like this provide all too apt images of the characters' primitive, isolated love. One day, at school, Elizabeth is forced to recite Heine's ''The Lorelei.'' ''This wonderful young woman is the cause of this man's downfall,'' the teacher announces, explaining the poem. ''She sends him to his doom.'' Elizabeth is upset by this, as the omen-conscious viewer may also be. Sure enough, the tale then moves inexorably toward tragedy. Miss Billetdoux, a young French novelist, has written and directed the film in a style as incomplete as the love affair itself, never fully expressing whatever it is she means to suggest through this mysterious relationship, and dwelling rather too fondly on the story's inherent ambiguities. When the film is arresting at all, it works more fully on the visual level than any other. There is a good sense of the small town in which the story is set, and of the country atmosphere in which the gardener carries out his simple, earthy duties. Sometimes, as in the cow scene, this point is carried a bit too far. - Janet Maslin, nytimes.com Movie added at: 02.11.2013 |
     
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A zivot jde dál Year: 1935 Country: Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia Review: On the coast of Yugoslavia lives fisherman Ivo Kralj, his wife Marie, son Vuk, and Ivo's mother in one happy home. Marie, who loves her husband and always looks forward to his return from sea, attracts Nikola, with whom Ivo, out of jealousy, has a scuffle at a dance. After the outbreak of World War I Ivo is mobilized. He ends up in a P.O.W. camp where he is subjected to hard labour. His family then receives news of his death. The years pass and the lonely widow Marie is occasionally visited by her friend Nikola. Ivo's mother would like her to remarry. Soon after the wedding Marie becomes pregnant. Ivo, who has been thought dead, succeeds in escaping the P.O.W. camp where he has spent several years. Upon his arrival home he finds his name on a memorial erected to the victims of the war... - IMDb Movie added at: 29.10.2013 |
   
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 Consentement mutuelYear: 1994 Country: France Actors and Actresses: Adrienne Winling, Paul Winling Tags: bathing girl Review: There is a lot of tension and resentment in Romain's and Jeanne's marriage, but their divorce is amicable. They seem to agree on how to raise their daughter, Madeleine - she will live with her mother and spend every other week-end with her father. But Romain is very controlling and manipulative and is poisoning the arrangement. At first, Jeanne seems to cope with being a single parent, but when she has to put up with Romain's tactics she starts to fall apart. - IMDb Movie added at: 26.10.2013 |
   
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 Nordmennenes Egen Historie: Fra 1905 Til I Dag - Opplevelser fra OsloYear: 2005 Country: Norway Tags: boy skinny dip Review: Norwegian's own history told through the memories of people close to the events as they happened. This gives a unique description of the history of Oslo over the last 100 years. Movie added at: 23.10.2013 |
     
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 SciusciàYear: 1946 Country: Italy Tags: bathing boy Review: At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride... The boys meet Attilio, Giuse's much older brother, and his shady friend at a boat on the Tiber. In return for a commission, the boys agree to deliver black market goods to a fortune-teller. Once the woman has paid, Attilio's gang suddenly arrives. Pretending to be cops, they shake the woman down. With a payoff from Attilio, the boys are able to make the final payment and stable their horse in Trastevere over the river... The fortune-teller identifies Pasqua and Giuse. Held at an overcrowded boys' prison, they are separated. Giuse falls under the influence of an older lad in his cell, Arcangeli. During interrogation, Pasqua is tricked into betraying Giuse's brother to the police. With their trial still in the future, the two friends are driven further apart... - David Carless, IMDb Movie added at: 22.10.2013 |
    
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 ÁrvácskaYear: 1976 Country: Hungary Actors and Actresses: Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Emese Nagy Tags: bathing girl Review: This critically acclaimed film follows the tragic life of an eight-year-old orphan girl. Living under a government that sanctions money to foster parents, she finds herself shuffled from family to family; with each move she encounters increasingly brutal abuse. A beautifully acted film with explores an all too real pathos. Movie added at: 21.10.2013 |
     
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 SiroceYear: 1978 Country: Yugoslavia Tags: boy skinny dip Review: Story of children growing up in Yugoslavia right after the end of World War II. Movie added at: 18.10.2013 |
      
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 FerienYear: 2007 Country: Germany Review: A relaxing vacation becomes an impromptu family reunion when a family of three takes a sun soaked trip to their summer cottage, only to find the entire extended family unexpectedly showing up on their doorstep. Anna, Robert, and their adolescent son Max were looking forward to a quiet retreat to the Uckermark region of Germany, but their peace is soon shattered by the arrival of children, parents, siblings, and grandchildren. At first everyone does their best just to get along, though it doesn't take long for old wounds to fester and buried secrets to surface. Movie added at: 17.10.2013 |
    
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 Dayte nam muzhchin!Year: 1985 Country: Soviet Union Actors and Actresses: Vanya Fyodorov, Ekaterina Vanyushina, Andrey Yarygin, Natasha Lyulina, Andrei Martynov, Marina Perimova, Ilyusha Tishchenko, Valeriya Timofeyeva, Natalya Fedunova, Sasha Kartashov Movie added at: 13.10.2013 |
      
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 VermistYear: 2008 Country: Belgium Actors and Actresses: Jelte Blommaert, Cédric Van Den Abbeele, David Murgia, Noor Ben Taouet, Pauline Grossen, June Voeten, Ben Van den Heuvel Tags: bathing boy Review: The missing persons unit of the Belgian federal police goes all the way each time a child or adult is likely to be in need of urgent help. Some cases are just domestic or false alerts, other link to various other crimes, from blackmail to terrorism. The team members barely have any time left for personal lives, so their relationships tend to suffer badly. - IMDb Movie added at: 13.10.2013 |
    
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