“Born of well-to-do parents, Benedetta Carlini entered the convent at age nine. At twenty-three, she began to have visions of both a religious and erotic nature. Benedetta was elected abbess largely because of these visions, but she later aroused suspicion by claiming to have had supernatural contacts with…

The story is divided into four parts, boldly altering and editing the contents of the eponymous novel by French writer Georges Bernanos. The first depicts the lead character through his discussions with his mentor. Donissan is a priest living in a corner of northern France at the onset of the 20th century…

The movie goes back a long way, and in depth, to the origins of one of the most mythical and appealing characters associated with the European Middle Ages. Robin Hood was named in old ballads, with some key features clearly settled in the 15th century; he was somehow rediscovered…

Actions do not only entertain but also enlighten the plot and its meaning, through repetitions, details, contrasts. In 1191 a banquet is held in the castle of Guy of Gisbourne, a noble allied to Prince John, who is jockeying for the top job in England after his brother and ruling king, Richard…

On the one hand there is Lieutenant Conan, a conscript who is later in the story promoted to the rank of captain, and the group of soldiers he picked up from anywhere, including the military’s jails. They are commandos, making daring attacks…

Major Delaplane is a middle-aged army doctor, a vigorous, candid, and grumpy character with a mission: two years after the end of the First World War, he must find out the bodies, dead or alive, of the French soldiers who went missing into action, to allow their families to have a corpse to…

A fool’s ascent: Redmont Barry, a dull and poor gentleman, is forced to leave his native Irish village after a duel his love for his cousin Nora caused. Supported by her family, the flirtatious girl was far more interested in getting married with a rich captain of the English army, John Quin, than…

A group of villagers, fervently praying with their priest that God would chase away the field mouses invading their farms, stands still at the center of the establishing shot, on the verdant edge of a cliff in Brittany, but it does not last and they are soon scrambling along…

He had just jerked his left arm away, but that was enough to shove the boy and make him lose his balance. The victim fall down the staircase, getting knocked out and badly injured in the backbone. Wei Bu was quarreling with his high school’s bully because the aggressive teenager claimed that Wei Bu’s…

Yuddie is something of a playboy. He lives alone in a cozy and rather large flat, is incredibly attractive and aware of it and doesn’t work as his mother Rebecca pays for whatever he wishes. This is convenient for him, since he does not like to work, but also for Rebecca, for she fears he…

They are five of them: Moraldo, Alberto, Fausto, Leopoldo and Riccardo. They are the local celebrities of their hometown, a small Italian seaside resort: they are the Vitelloni, the big calves, which means something like the…

“Sommaren med Monika – Summer With Monika” is the story of the youth looking for enjoying life to the full, breaking free from the old, the staid, the sordid. It is two very young persons, not even 20, chatting in a café, after the girl, fidgeting at her table, holding a cigarette, asked for a light for her cigarette…

First come booming, ear-splitting, savage sounds of music: the establishing shot is a medium shot on a young, half-naked, heavily tattooed drummer, the settings are the kind of compact stage hosting small rock, in this case of course metal, bands in unassuming musical venues visited by young and loyal…

Shot in close-ups, an infant girl quietly plays alone. A cut: the camera now shows her mother telling a friend about her worries. Another cut: the father comes in and gently mocks her. This pattern would prove long to break: as Mandy Garland slides into her own world, getting out of reach from others, her…

Three year after “The Rider”, five years after “Songs My Brothers Taught me”, director Chloé Zhao keeps watches folks on the fringe of the American society, communities grappling with challenges and isolation in scenic places, great vistas of the American landscape where the American dream…