Dialogue Jardinier

En des temps difficiles, un meunier vend sa fille au Diable. Protégée par sa pureté, elle lui échappe mais est privée de ses mains. Cheminant loin de sa famille, elle rencontre la déesse de l'eau, un doux jardinier et le prince en son château. Un long périple vers la lumière…

Un beau jour d’été. Un jardin. Une terrasse. Une femme et un homme sous les arbres, avec un vent d’été doux. Au loin, dans la vaste plaine, la silhouette de Paris. Un dialogue commence, des questions et des réponses entre la femme et l’homme. Il s’agit d’expériences sexuelles, d’enfance, de souvenirs, de l’essence de l’été et de ce qui différencie les hommes et les femmes, la perspective féminine et la perception masculine. Derrière, dans la maison qui donne sur la terrasse, sur la femme et l’homme: l’écrivain, en train d’imaginer ce dialogue et de le taper à la machine. Ou est-ce l’inverse? Seraient-ce les deux personnages, là dehors, qui lui racontent ce qu’il couche sur le papier: un ultime et long dialogue entre un homme et une femme?

Directed by enigmatic and brilliant documentary essayist Chris Marker, THE OWL’S LEGACY is an intellectually agile, engaging, and sometimes biting look at ancient Greece, its influences on Western culture and how many eras have reinterpreted the Greek legacy to reflect their own needs. Each of the 13 episodes is centered on a potent Greek word: from “democracy” and “philosophy” to “mythology” and “misogyny”. Marker convenes and films symposia meals featuring wine and thoughtful conversation in locales including Paris, Tokyo, Tbilisi, Berkeley and an olive grove on the outskirts of Athens.

An extraordinary debut from one of Hollywood’s most bankable UK expats, Tony Scott’s Loving Memory follows an isolated brother and sister who live with their memories and a grisly secret. Critically acclaimed on its release, Loving Memory was beautifully photographed by celebrated cinematographer Chris Menges – who captures perfectly the misty mystery of the Yorkshire moors – and features a stunning, sinister performance from Rosamund Greenwood (Village of the Damned, The Witches) as a haunted innocent.

The first of several Cuban films made with the Haitian community in Cuba, Cumbite tells the story of a Haitian who returns to his home village after years of living in Cuba. Based on a novel by Haitian author Jaques Romain, this ground-breaking feature is perhaps the first Latin American film to address the theme of cultural contradiction in underdeveloped society.

A rebellious young woman with cerebral palsy leaves her home in India to study in New York, unexpectedly falls in love, and embarks on an exhilarating journey of self-discovery.

Mary, a writer working on a novel about a love triangle, is attracted to her publisher. Her suitor Jimmy is determined to break them up; he introduces Mary to the publisher's wife without telling Mary who she is.

After expatriate American jockey Danny Arnold double-crosses ruthless gambler Louis Bork, he flees Italy with his adoring son Joe, who isn't aware of his father's lies and corruption. While in France he begins a relationship with a beautiful French nightclub singer and buys a problematic racehorse that no one seems to be able to train. After Joe suggests that the horse has a future as a jumper, Danny converts him to the steeplechase and turns him into a consistent winner. When Bork shows up and tells him he must lose the big race or die, Danny must weigh his life against his son's faith that he has become a man of honor.

Once Upon a Time In the West demonstrates how precision craftsmanship can elevate a picture from "good" to "legendary." With a sound but not necessarily all that original story and a quartet of fine acting performances up its sleeve, it's not a wonder that this is a quality film, but add to that Director Sergio Leone's and Cinematographer Tonino Delli Colli's breathtaking cinematic framing, pacing, and emotional and thematic manipulation through moving imagery, and suddenly that quality picture becomes something else altogether, in essence yielding a masterwork within not only …

Two classics of erotic horror get a fabulous DVD, though no power on earth could have made them look and sound good…