Odette, Una Comedia Sobre la Felicidad

Abbandonata da piccola dai suoi genitori con la promessa che sarebbero tornati a riprenderla, Annie (Quvenzhané Wallis) è stata adottata da Miss Hannigan (Cameron Diaz) vivendo un'esistenza non certo felice. Tutto però è destinato a cambiare quando il magnate Will Pie (Jamie Foxx), candidato a sindaco di New York, su consiglio della vice Grace (Rose Byrne) e del consigliere Guy (Bobby Cannavale) fa una mossa per la sua campagna elettorale, prendendo la bambina con sé.

Charles Desvallées has good reasons to believe that his wife is cheating on him and hires a P.D. in order to prove himself right. Once he knows the lover is writer Victor Pégala, he drives to his apartment, calmly presents himself as the husband, starts a conversation and then kills him cold-bloodedly. The police trace the wife but when she discovers by accident a picture that could incriminate her husband she decides to remain silent
Cuando Charles Desvallées comienza a sospechar que su mujer está teniendo un affair con otro hombre, contrata un detective privado para que la siga y averigüe el nombre del amante. Una vez confirmada la infidelidad y descubierta la identidad de él, el celoso marido prepara su venganza.

One of the last Soviet silent movies, rediscovered and restored by French cine-chameleon Chris Marker in 1971, Happiness proved an easily accessible counterpoint to the exotic obscurities of The Wishing Tree (!) (<- note : Time out point of view ).
For this rare and often hilarious example of socialist slapstick is likewise grounded in the seeming eccentricities of Russian folk culture; but on the less culturally specific dynamics of those hopes and dreams which forever sustain the exploited, and which may or may not flourish after the revolution. Medvedkin's infectiously happy oddity emerged surprisingly from a slough of social-realist orthodoxy, and prompted none other than Eisenstein to the admiring tribute: 'Today I saw how a Bolshevik laughs.'

U.S. Air Force General Jack Ripper goes completely and utterly mad, and sends his bomber wing to destroy the U.S.S.R. He suspects that the communists are conspiring to pollute the "precious bodily fluids" of the American people. The U.S. president meets with his advisors, where the Soviet ambassador tells him that if the U.S.S.R. is hit by nuclear weapons, it will trigger a "Doomsday Machine" which will destroy all plant and animal life on Earth. Peter Sellers portrays the three men who might avert this tragedy: British Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, the only person with access to the demented Gen. Ripper; U.S. President Merkin Muffley, whose best attempts to divert disaster depend on placating a drunken Soviet Premier and the former Nazi genius Dr. Strangelove, who concludes that "such a device would not be a practical deterrent for reasons which at this moment must be all too obvious". Will the bombers be stopped in time, or will General Jack Ripper succeed in destroying the world?

Convencido de que los comunistas están contaminando a la nación americana, un general ordena, en un acceso de locura, un ataque aéreo nuclear por sorpresa sobre la Unión Soviética. Su ayudante, el capitán Mandrake trata de averiguar el código para detener el bombardeo. Para solucionar el problema, el presidente de EE. UU. se comunica con Moscú para convencer al dirigente soviético de que el ataque es un estúpido error. Mientras tanto, el asesor del presiente, un antiguo científico nazi, D. Strangelove, confirma la existencia de la “Máquina del Juicio Final”, un dispositivo de represalia soviético capaz de acabar con la humanidad para siempre.