Movies: 35 mm

Wives

Anja Breien's breakthrough film Wives shamelessly took on the premise of John Cassavetes' film Husbands, made four years earlier, turning gender roles upside down in the spirit of the 70s.

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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 Last Laugh

The Last Laugh (1924) brought together the greatest German filmmakers of different fields from the golden age of silent film.

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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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The Inheritance

After a lifetime of hard work, the aging widower Gregorio (Anthony Quinn) decides to sell his bakery business, but cuts his three adult children (the weak-willed Pippo, the womanising gambler Mario and the spouse of a government employee Teta) out of his will completely, leaving them with no promise of a future inheritance.

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Rosso

Excepting maybe Renny Harlin and Dome Karukoski, Mika Kaurismäki is Finland’s most international film director. Even his first feature-length film... View Article

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