понедельник, 24 марта 2025 г.

La tecnica e il rito (1972)

 


La tecnica e il rito / The Technique and the Rite

Director: Miklós Jancsó
Stars: József Madaras, Marco Guglielmi, Adalberto Maria Merli, Luigi Diberti, Brizio Montinaro, Marzio Margine, Gustavo De Nardo, Corrado Solari, Luigi Montini, George Wang, Anna Zinnemann

The narrative concerns the barbaric exploits of Attila The Hun and yet none of the characters ever leave the remote seaside stretch of land on which the film is set or do much of anything – with the ensuing moralizing interrupted only by the occasional (and equally obscure) music-infused rites.

Italy
In Italian, with French hardsubs & English subs (embed)
 

среда, 19 марта 2025 г.

Les Enfants de la guerre (1976)

 


Les Enfants de la guerre / Children of War

Director & Writer: Jocelyne Saab

A few days after a massacre in a shantytown near Beirut, the director finds the children who survived. She approaches them by offering them crayons to draw. A link is created between them. They let her film their violent games: they repeat the scenes of horror they saw unfold before their eyes.

Documentary, short
France, in French & Arabic
With French (forced), Spanish, Arabic & English subs (embed)
 

вторник, 18 марта 2025 г.

Le Liban dans la tourmente (1975)

 


Le Liban dans la tourmente / Lebanon in a Whirlwind

Directors: Jocelyne Saab, Jorg Stocklin

A few months after the incident of April 13, 1975, during which Palestinian civilians were machine-gunned by Phalangist militiamen, the toll is most tragic: six thousand dead, twenty thousand wounded, incessant kidnappings, a semi-destroyed capital. This film traces the origins of the Lebanese conflict, the perception of a society that goes to war while singing. A unique document on the Lebanese civil war.

Documentary
France
In French, with French (forced), Arabic, Spanish & English subs (embed)
 

понедельник, 17 марта 2025 г.

Viva la muerte (1971)

 



Viva la muerte / Long Live Death

Director: Fernando Arrabal
Stars: Anouk Ferjac, Núria Espert, Mahdi Chaouch, Ivan Henriques, Jazia Klibi, Suzanne Comte, Jean-Louis Chassigneux, Mohamed Bellasoued

At the end of the Spanish civil war, Fando, a boy of about ten, tries to make sense of war and his father’s arrest. His mother is religious, sympathetic to the Fascists; his father is accused of being a Red; Fando discovers that his mother may have aided in his father’s arrest.

France | Tunisia
In French; 2nd audio with comments in English
With French, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish & English subs (embed)