Erotic Short Circuits Vol. 4

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to choose between his wife and his lover, and a marri...

Runtime

2h

Director

Isabel Coixet, Tom Tykwer

Cast

Steve Buscemi, Natalie Portman, Willem Dafoe

Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. An...

Runtime

1h 52m

Director

Michel Gondry, Bong Joon Ho

Cast

Ayako Fujitani, Denis Lavant, Teruyuki Kagawa

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a soldier’s ghosts, a walk through Van Gogh’s canvases, nuclear nightmares, and a water-mill utopia—meditate on childhood, art, mortality, and humanity’s uneasy bond with nature.

Runtime

1h 59m

Director

Akira Kurosawa, Ishirō Honda

Cast

Akira Terao, Mitsuko Baisho, Toshie Negishi

New York, I Love You delves into the intimate lives of New Yorkers as they grapple with, delight in and search for love. Journey from the Diamond District in the heart of Manhattan, through Chinatown and the Upper East Side, towards the Village, into Tribeca, and Brooklyn as lovers of all ages try to find romance in the Big Apple.

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Natalie Portman, Yvan Attal

Cast

Hayden Christensen, Andy Garcia, Rachel Bilson

Seven episodes, each taking place on a different day of the week, on the theme of suicide and violent death.

Runtime

1h 20m

Director

Jörg Buttgereit

Cast

Heinrich Ebber, Angelika Hoch, Hermann Kopp