Splendid Isolation

Philosophical movie, staged at the least philosophical environment imaginable: A closed scenery of a nudist spot, where some hired Czech stuff is making a plain erotic movie for a rich Russian producer. Nothing in this movie is what it seems to be at the first superficial glance.

Runtime

2h

Director

Věra Chytilová

Cast

Bolek Polívka, Jan Antonín Pitínský, Milan Šteindler

Agostino is a 13-year-old boy on vacation in Venice with his widowed mother. When a local stud seduces her, jealous Agostino joins a local group of juvenile delinquents out of protest. They force him to face his budding sexuality..

Runtime

1h 30m

Director

Mauro Bolognini

Cast

Paolo Colombo, Ingrid Thulin, Mario Bartoletti

I AM I is the story of a young woman, Rachael, who meets the father she never knew, Gene, at her mother's funeral. She discovers that her father is completely delusional and believes her to be her dead mother. After Rachael visits Gene in an assisted living home, she learns that he suffers from a disease called Korsakov's Syndrome, a f...

Runtime

1h 27m

Director

Jocelyn Towne

Cast

Simon Helberg, Jason Ritter, Kevin Tighe

Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

Cast

Will Smith, Edward Norton, Kate Winslet

It's not easy being a teenager and Mike, a sixteen-year-old, has it espcially hard. He lives in the sticks with his mother, a non-stop nagger, in Faintville, a Canadian timber industry town. He has no father, no friends, not even a favorite meal. Basically, his sole wish is simply to vanish from the face of the earth. One day, Mike wri...

Runtime

1h 41m

Cast

Alex Ozerov-Meyer, Bea Santos, Krista Bridges