Patrice Chéreau
Description
Michael Haneke’s futuristic vision follows a global cataclysm, Anne (Academy Award Nominee Isabelle Huppert) and her family set out for a safe haven at their holiday home. But, when they arrive, the home is already occupied by other survivors. Their hopes for safety are immediately dashed by a violent tragedy, which serves as a lesson to take nothing for granted and expect the worst in this new, harsh landscape. Accompanied by a fierce young boy...
2) Gabrielle
Description
Paris, early 1900's. Provoking a cataclysmic crisis in her conventional, bourgeois marriage, Mrs. Hervey and her husband each take on the supposed virtues of the opposite sex. Mr. Hervey loses everything in a fatal blow from the one place he would never have imagined: his wife, his wife who is no longer his wife. She, GABRIELLE, emerges as untouched and intact as a block of granite. Stripped of his manhood, Mr. Hervey, now left with nothing, will...
3) Intimacy
Description
In this provocative film, what starts out as a weekly anonymous tryst between a divorced man (Mark Rylance) and a married woman (Kerry Fox) turns into a searing portrait of loneliness and emotional need. Winner of three prizes at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. Official selection at the **Sundance Film Festival**. *"INTIMACY is a raw, wounding, powerfully acted film, and you cannot look away from it." - Roger Ebert, **Chicago Sun-Times***...
