The Terence Davies Trilogy 1983

The Terence Davies Trilogy 1983

The Terence Davies Trilogy 1983
1h 41min | Drama | September 1984 (UK)

Storyline:

Davies’ film is divided into three segments entitled “Children”, “Madonna and Child”, and “Death and Transfiguartion”. The segments tell the life of Robert Tucker. The first segment looks at his birth and formative years in school, an austere boy’s school. The bleak environment is not aided by the loveless, violent domestic life he experiences. Nonetheless, his father’s death has a major impact on him. In the second segment, he is a closeted homosexual working in a grim office and still living at home with his daunting mother. In the final segment, he deals with his mother’s death and then faces his own impending doom. As his death approaches he flashes back to his life’s events.

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Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns 1985

Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns 1985

Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns 1985

Gritta von Rattenzuhausbeiuns 1985
1h 23min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy | 7 March 1985 (East Germany)

Storyline:

13-year-old Gritta lives in an old, weathered castle with her father, an impoverished high count. While he works as a passionate inventor on a throne-saving machine for the king, free spirit Gritta enjoys her childhood to the full. But this comes to an end when her father decides to marry the noble Countess Nesselkrautia. She arranges for Gritta to be sent to a convent school. Outraged by the coercion there and the fraudulent machinations of the abbess with the greedy governor Pekavus, Gritta flees into the forest with her friends. There they meet the young prince and become friends with him. Gritta wants to warn the king about Pekavus’ plans, but he is already on her trail.

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Up Among the Stars 2018

Up Among the Stars 2018

Up Among the Stars 2018
En las estrellas (original title)
1h 26min | Drama | 31 August 2018 (Spain)

Storyline:

Victor, an unemployed film director, his wife just died and left him a 9-year-old son. The difficulties depressed him so much and he became a drunk. The alcoholism was the only way to allow him to escape into the LaLaLand, the drunken illusions had become so real that he evolved into a great dreamer, telling wonderful stories to his son. His drunkenness also made him a would-be director who thought he himself actually directed those fantastic stories he told his son.

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Too Late to Die Young 2018

Too Late to Die Young 2018

Too Late to Die Young 2018
Tarde Para Morir Joven (original title)
1h 50min | Drama | 29 September 2018 (USA)

Storyline:

Democracy comes back to Chile during the summer of 1990. In an isolated community, Sofía (16), Lucas (16) and Clara (10), face their first loves and fears, while preparing for New Year’s Eve. They may live far from the dangers of the city, but not from those of nature.

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