Overview of articles
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Les camisards
Unconventional Brechtian costume drama about Protestant guerrillas (Camisards) in the era of the Catholic potentate Louis XIV.Published on: -
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Yawar mallku
Hard-hitting political feature. Indians castrate ‘gringos’ as revenge for sterilising their wives.See also: Para recibir el canto de los pajaros.Published on: -
Po di Sangui
Optimistic feature about a changing society in Guinnea Bissau, threatened by trees being felled.Published on: -
Le Chagrin et la Pitié
Notorious and classic documentary about collaboration with the Nazis by the French Vichy regime. The film made Ophuls famous, hated and feared.Published on: -
Johnny Got His Gun
Soldier returns from the war an invalid. Johnny can no longer talk, see or feel. The film portrays his inner life.Published on: -
Postchi
Parable, loosely based on Büchner’s Woyzeck. Vet experiments with impotent postman.Published on: -
Aristotle’s Plot
Hybrid satire is also a reflection on the (impossible) state of African Cinema.Published on: -
Heshbon telephone
A bolemic psychologist, batty transvestite of many faces and other misfits in a battle of telephones and answering machines.Published on: