Showing posts with label 2006. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2006. Show all posts

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Жасмин / Jasminum (2006)



Год выхода: 2006
Выпущено: Польша
Жанр: мелодрама, комедия, мистика
Режиссер: Ян Якуб Кольский

В ролях: Януш Гайос (Здрувко), Гражина Бленцка-Кольска (Наташа), Виктория Гонсевска (Геня), Адам Ференци (Клеофас, настоятель монастыря), Франчишек Печка (Святой Рох), Богуслав Линда (Земан), Моника Дрыль (Патриция), Дариуш Юзышин (Черешня), Кшиштоф Печиньский (Черёмуха), Гжегош Даменцкий (Слива), Патриция Солиман (Жасмин), Кшиштоф Глёбиш (бурмистр), Фердинанд Матысик (киномеханик), М. Домбровска, Ц. Лукашевич, М. Каспшик, Р. Кубяк, В. Соляж, Ю. Бартошевич, К. Пызяк

О фильме: Современный монастырь в польской провинции. Здесь живут монахи Черёмуха, Слива и Черешня, пахнущие, как фруктовые деревья. Этот запах магическим образом действует на женщин и пробуждает в них эротические фантазии. В монашескую обитель частенько заходит хорошенькая парикмахерша Патриция, чтобы раздобыть хоть что-то пахучее у местных монахов: локон волоса, частичку одеяния… Она безнадежно влюблена в знаменитого актера Земана, уроженца этих мест, и мечтает с ним познакомиться. Настоятель монастыря Клеофас, большой поклонник фильмов Феллини, с тоской вспоминает то время, когда в городишке работал кинотеатр. Изредка в обители появляется призрак молодой девушки, пахнущий жасмином. И живет в монастыре угрюмый и молчаливый брат Здрувко, повар, у которого найдется доброе слово и доброе дело ко всему живому – к человеку, к поросенку, к улитке. В монастырь приезжает талантливая художница Наташа, чтобы отреставрировать алтарную икону. Она привозит с собой 5-летнюю дочку Геню, которая быстро привязывается к Здрувко. Наташа — не только художник-реставратор, но и талантливый парфюмер. Она умеет создавать духи, которые обладают такими же колдовскими чарами, как и монастырские запахи. Наташа пытается разгадать тайну волшебных ароматов монастыря, и вскоре зрителю открывается загадочная любовная драма 400-летней давности, связанная с монастырем, а заодно и печальная история несостоявшегося замужества самой Наташи.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Sanxia haoren / Натюрморт / Still Life / Akinites zoes / Chou kou ereji / Em Busca da Vida / Martwa natura / Naturaleza Muerta / Stilla liv (2006)






Coalminer Han Sanming comes from Fengyang in Shanxi to the Three Gorges town Fengjie to look for his ex-wife whom he has not seen for 16 years. The couple meet on the bank of the Yangtze River and vow to remarry. Nurse Shen Hong also comes to Fengjie from Taiyuan in Shanxi to look for her husband who has not been home for two years. The couple embrace each other and waltz under the imposing Three Gorges dam, but feel they are so apart and decide to have a divorce. The old township has been submerged, while a new town has to be built. Life persists in the Three Gorges - what should be taken up is taken up, what should be cast off is cast off...

Старый город Фенцзе с 2000-летней историей затоплен, новый город еще не построен. Что-то надо спасать, с чем-то расставаться. Шахтер Хан Саньмин приезжает в Фенцзе в провинции Шанси, чтобы повидаться со своей бывшей женой, которую он не видел 16 лет. Она когда-то бросила его и забрала с собой дочь. Они встречаются на берегу реки Янцзы и дают слово друг другу снова пожениться. Медсестра Шеен Хон приезжает в Фенцзе, чтобы разыскать своего мужа, который уехал 2 года назад и почти потерял с ней связь. Она понимает, что они не могут быть вместе и просит его дать ей развод.Золотой Лев Венецианского фестиваля режиссеру этого фильма в 2006г...

Chine. Ville de Fengje en amont du barrage des Trois Gorges. San Ming fait le voyage dans la région pour retrouver son ex-femme et sa fille qu'il n'a pas vu depuis seize ans. Aujourd'hui, l'immeuble, la rue, le quartier où elles ont vécu ne sont plus qu'une tâche verte engloutie sous les eaux du barrage des Trois Gorges. Dans la même ville, une femme, Shen Hong, cherche son mari disparu depuis deux ans. Là où la construction du gigantesque barrage des Trois Gorges a pour conséquence la destruction de villages entiers et les déplacements de population, deux quêtes amoureuses s'enlacent, deux histoires qui se construisent et se déconstruisent...

"In “Still Life,” which won the grand prize at the 2006 Venice Film Festival, the blood and the sweat run directly into the Yangtze River, where they mingle with more than a few tears. The movie takes place amid the clatter and misery of the Three Gorges Dam, which cuts across the Yangtze in central China. The largest dam in the world, Three Gorges is a site of great cultural and political strife because of both environmental and humanitarian concerns. More than one million people have been displaced because of the dam (more are expected to follow), evicted from their homes by a ravenous hunger for power, electric and otherwise, that is washing them and history away. This may sound like a prescription for social cinema, but Mr. Jia’s interest lies in visual ideas and human behavior, not agendas. “Still Life” has been painted with a lightness of touch, and with none of the hollow lugubriousness familiar from some of the recent Chinese imported pageants and epics.Mr. Jia’s characters are always of their historical moment, but not necessarily its martyrs. Neither is he a slave to history. His work exists on a continuum with the modernist masters, among other influences, but he is very much an artist of his own specific time and place." Written by Manohla Dargis, The New York Times...


Original Title / Оригинальное название: Sanxia haoren
Also Known As: Натюрморт / Still Life / Akinites zoes / Chou kou ereji
Released in / Год выхода: 2006
Genre / Жанр: Drama, Romance, Surrealism
Director / Режиссер: Zhang Ke Jia / Цзя Чжан Ке
Writers / Сценарий: Zhang Ke Jia (screenplay) and Na Guan (writer)
Cinematography by / Оператор: Nelson Yu Lik-wai (as Lik Wai Yu)
Original Music by: Giong Lim
Cast / В ролях: Tao Zhao, Zhou Lan, Sanming Han, Lizhen Ma, Hongwei Wang, Kai Chen, Ronghu Chen, Jian Chieng, Chuanan Fang, Zhongming He, Yong Huang, Deping Jiang, Shiping Jiang, Tianyah Lan, Bin Li, Fengmin Li, Jingsheng Li, Lunshuang Li, Changqiao Liu, Ping Liu, Yougzhong Li, Younghu Li, Zhubin Li, Xiaomao Long, Mingwang Luo, Qiang Lu, Xiang Ma, Jianlin Pan, Zhugui Qian, Changxiu Tan, Ling Tang, Jiquan Tian, Jianghong Wang, Qingsung Wang...

Additional Details
Country / Выпущено: China, Hong Kong
Company / Производство: Shanghai Film Studios
Duration / Продолжительность: 01:46:32

Monday, May 10, 2010

Waiter/ Ober/ Официант



Waiter (Dutch: Ober) is a 2006 black comedy film by Alex van Warmerdam. It tells the story of Edgar, a discontented waiter. The film had its world premiere on the Toronto Film Festival on September 10, 2006. It was the opening film of the Netherlands Film Festival, where Waiter received two Golden Calves, for Best Scenario and Best Production Design.

Waiter tells the story of Edgar (Alex van Warmerdam), a waiter with a flair for the unfortunate. His wife is sick, his girlfriend Victoria (Ariane Schluter) is overly possessive, customers at work constantly bully him and his neighbours make his life impossible.

Fed up with the way his life is going, Edgar goes to the house of Herman (Mark Rietman), the scriptwriter who invented Edgar and is currently writing his story. Edgar complains about the events in his life that keep getting worse and begs for some positive events in his life, including a decent girlfriend. Herman decides to create Stella (Line Van Wambeke), but soon Edgar realises that Stella will only complicate his life more. Meanwhile Herman is pestered by his pushy girlfriend Suzie (Thekla Reuten), who constantly tries to change the script. Driven to insanity by Edgar and Suzie constantly trying to interfere with his story, Herman decides to make the story more extreme and violent...

Directed by Alex van Warmerdam
Produced by Marc van Warmerdam
Written by Alex van Warmerdam
Starring Alex van Warmerdam
Ariane Schluter
Mark Rietman
Thekla Reuten
Line Van Wambeke
Music by Vincent van Warmerdam
Cinematography Tom Erisman
Editing by Ewin Ryckaert
Distributed by A-Film
Release date(s) September 28, 2006 (NL)
World premiere: September 10, 2006 (Toronto Film Festival)
Running time 97 minutes
Country Netherlands, Belgium

ON IMD

Friday, March 12, 2010

Transylvania / Трансильвания (2006)




Zingarina arrives in Transylavania, accompanied by her close friend Marie and her guide and interpreter Luminitsa. She is not there only to visit this region of Romania but to trace her lover Milan, a musician who has made her pregnant and who left her without a word of explanation. When she finds him back, he brutally rejects her and Zingarina is terribly upset. She leaves her two companions and having become a wreck she hardly survives by following a wandering little girl. Her destiny changes for the best when she meets Tchangalo, a traveling trader...

Starring: Beata Playa, Alexandra Beaujard, Birol Unel, Amira Casar, Asia Argento
Directed by: Tony Gatlif
Produced by: Tony Gatlif



Genres: Art/Foreign and Drama
Running Time: 1 hr. 43 min.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Still Life/Sānxiá hǎorén/Натюрморт



Still Life (Chinese: 三峡好人; pinyin: Sānxiá hǎorén; literally "Good people of the Three Gorges") is a 2006 Chinese film directed by Jia Zhangke. Shot in the old village of Fengjie, a small town on the Yangtze River which is slowly being destroyed by the building of the Three Gorges Dam, Still Life tells the story of two people in search of their spouses. Still Life is a co-production between the Shanghai Film Studio and Hong Kong-based Xstream Pictures
The film premiered at the 2006 Venice Film Festival and was a surprise winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Film.[2] The film premiered at a handful of other film festivals, and received a limited commercial release in the United States on January 18, 2008 in New York City.

Like The World, Jia Zhangke's previous film, Still Life was accepted by Chinese authorities and was shown uncensored in both mainland China and abroad.
Still Life takes place in the city of Fengjie, a city upstream of the massive Three Gorges Dam. Now marked for flooding, the city undergoes a process of self-deconstruction. Into this dying town comes Han Sanming, a coal-miner from the province of Shanxi who has returned in search of a wife that ran away sixteen years ago. Upon arriving, he asks a local motorcyclist to drive him to his former address on "Granite Street." The driver takes him to the river bank, revealing that his entire neighborhood has been flooded since the building of the dam. After a failed attempt to obtain his wife's information from the local municipal office, Han Sanming settles into a local hotel. Sanming's next stop is a rickety boat owned by his wife's elder brother. The brother informs Sanming that his wife and daughter (the real reason for his return) work downriver in Yichang but that if he remains in the city, they will eventually return.

Sanming then befriends a local teen (and a fan of the actor Chow Yun-Fat), Brother Mark who helps him with a job with his demolition crew. Together the two spend their days tearing down buildings.

The film then cuts to a second story with the arrival of Shen Hong, a nurse. Shen Hong's husband, Guo Bing had left their home in Shanxi two years earlier and had made only superficial attempts to keep in contact. She eventually enlists the help of one of her husband's friends, Wang Dongming, who allows her to stay at his home as the two seek Guo Bin. The two discover that Guo Bin had become a fairly successful businessman in Fengjie though Dongming refuses to answer whether he has found a girl on the side. Shen Hong later found out her husband is indeed having an affair with his wealthy investor. When Guo Bin and Shen Hong at last meet, she simply walks away. As her husband pursues her, she reveals to him that she has fallen in love with someone else and wishes to divorce. When he asks with whom and when she had fallen in love, she responds, "Does it really matter?"

The film then cuts back to Sanming for the final third. Sanming has been working at demolishing buildings for sometime when Brother Mark is fatally injured in a collapse of a wall, or perhaps he was murdered during a "job" contracted out by Guo Bin to gather a gang of youths to intimidate the inhabitants of a rival piece of real estate. Soon afterwards, his brother-in-law calls informing him that his wife, Missy Ma has returned. Sanming and Missy then meet, where she tells him that their daughter works further south, and that she works for a boat-owner essentially as an indentured servant due to her brothers debt. Sanming attempts to take his ex-wife with him, but is informed that he will have to pay 30,000 RMB to cover the debt. He promises to do so, and makes the decision to head back to Shanxi to work in the mines. His new friends and coworkers announce that they will be following, but Sanming reminds them of the intensely dangerous nature of the work. The film ends as Sanming prepares to depart. A man walking across a tight-rope appears in the background...(WIKI)

Directed by Jia Zhangke
Produced by Xu Pengle
Wang Tianyun
Zhu Jiong
Written by Jia Zhangke
Sun Jianming
Guan Na
Starring Zhao Tao
Han Sanming
Music by Lim Giong
Cinematography Yu Lik-wai
CHINA