The Romantic Englishwoman
Pulp writer Lewis Fielding's (Michael Caine) wife Elizabeth (Glenda Jackson), vacationing alone in Baden-Baden, meets a drug courier and gigolo named Thomas (Helmut Berger, a Visconti amanuensis who effervescently exploits his real-life decadent image).
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The Passenger
After Blow Up (1966) and Zabriskie Point (1970), the indisputable master of philosophical long takes, Michelangelo Antonioni, continued his stylistic evolution in his road movie classic The Passenger (1975), his third film in English.
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The Quarterly Balance
A visitor to Sodankylä in 1988, Krzysztof Zanussi's crisis analysis, broadcast on Finnish television under the title "Välitilinpäätös" (Interim Report), continues this year's programme's shadow theme of unstable relationships.
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