Movies: Special Screenings

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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Vermiglio

In the secluded corners of the majestic mountain landscapes, the village of Vermiglio remains largely shielded from the volatile atmosphere of the Second World War.

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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 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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