Posts Tagged ‘adultery’

In Cold Blood (1967)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Blake | Scott Wilson | John Forsythe | Paul Stewart | Gerald S. O'Loughlin | Jeff Corey | John Gallaudet | James Flavin | Charles McGraw | Will Geer | John McLiam | Ruth Storey | Brenda Currin | Paul Hough | Vaughn Taylor
Directors: Richard Brooks
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Truman Capote wrote the ‘non-fiction novel’ from which the film is drawn, using the novelist’s craft to render reality. The reality was that at two a.m. on November 15, 1959 in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were roused from their sleep, bound and gagged, and then brutally murdered by two unknown assailants. After the latters’ capture, sentencing and imprisonment prior to execution, Capote researched the case thoroughly, spent weeks talking with the prisoners, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, jurors, police, friends and neighbors, trying to unearth why such a senseless act was committed, and what society’s response might have been.

Alfie (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Jude Law | Renée Taylor | Jane Krakowski | Jeff Harding | Marisa Tomei | Kevin Rahm | Max Morris | Omar Epps | Nia Long | Gedde Watanabe | Jo Yang | Tara Summers | Sam Vincenti | Katherine LaNasa | Claudette Mink
Directors: Charles Shyer
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Alfie is a remake of the 1966 film. In the contemporary film, Alfie is quite the ladies man and rarely gets rejected when it comes to the opposite sex. He successfully has relations with multiple women without a hint of emotional attachment. A major (lifelong) problem arises when he sleeps with the wrong woman, namely his best friend’s (and future business partner) ex-girlfriend. As a result, his life slowly comes into focus and he begins to appreciate the little things he always missed in the opposite sex. A must see for all guys who call themselves “players”.

5×2 (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: France
Actors: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi | Stéphane Freiss | Françoise Fabian | Michael Lonsdale | Géraldine Pailhas | Antoine Chappey | Marc Ruchmann | Jason Tavassoli | Jean-Pol Brissart | Eliane Kherris | Yannis Belkacem | Sylvie Debrun | Jean Neisser | Ninon Brétécher | Marie-Madeleine Fouquet
Directors: François Ozon
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Marion (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) and Gilles (Stéphane Freiss) are living their last minutes as a married couple. After having formalized their divorce, they will make love for the last time in a hotel, but the experience is rather traumatic for Marion, contributing to increase the crisis between them. From this point, the story, broken down in 5 episodes, will run backwards, telling us the couple’s married life, showing us their devoted love to their little son, but also how Gilles hurt Marion in several ways. Then, we see Marion’s labour at the hospital, with an indifference attitude from Gilles about the matter. The two last episodes, tell how was the wedding, the party and the wedding night, and finally, how Marion and Gilles met each other during a trip in the Italian coast.

Notes on a Scandal (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: UK
Actors: Judi Dench | Cate Blanchett | Tom Georgeson | Michael Maloney | Joanna Scanlan | Shaun Parkes | Emma Kennedy | Syreeta Kumar | Andrew Simpson | Philip Davis | Wendy Nottingham | Tameka Empson | Leon Skinner | Bill Nighy | Juno Temple
Directors: Richard Eyre
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Barbara Covett is a veteran and cynical schoolteacher who is close to retirement. She is barely tolerated by her less brilliant and acerbic colleagues who know nothing about her private life which consists mainly of taking care of Portia, her aging cat, and spending countless hours alone. The only means she has found to take the edge off her desperate loneliness is writing in her journal. When Sheba Hart, a younger, attractive woman, joins the faculty as an art teacher, Barbara watches her from afar and has nothing but caustic things to say in her diary about her clothing and her care-free manner. Despite her disdain for this woman, Barbara finds herself reaching out to her. Sheba responds by inviting her to dinner at her house to meet Sheba’s lecturer husband, who is twenty years her senior, and their two children, a sexy and rebellious 16-year-old daughter and a younger boy with Downs Syndrome. Instead of opening herself to these people, Barbara immediately sees them as competition to be beaten in the battle for Sheba’s attention. Later, when Barbara discovers her new friend in a classroom having sex with Steven, a 15-year-old from the school who has artistic talent; she realizes that knowledge of this secret gives her power over Sheba which she can use for her own purposes. Barbara promises to not tell anyone but insists that the affair must end immediately. Sheba says she will but finds herself drawn back to the boy again and again. Sheba seems uneasy with Barbara’s friendship and is appalled when she discovers the older woman might have a sexual interest in her. The tenuous relationship between the two women reaches a crisis point when Barbara’s cat is dying and she asks Sheba to go with her to the vet. She chooses to go with her family to see their son in a play instead. In revenge, Barbara sets in motion the scandal that will rock both their lives in ways they never imagined.

The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover (1989)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Horror
Countries: France | Netherlands | UK
Actors: Richard Bohringer | Michael Gambon | Helen Mirren | Alan Howard | Tim Roth | Ciarán Hinds | Gary Olsen | Ewan Stewart | Roger Ashton-Griffiths | Ron Cook | Liz Smith | Emer Gillespie | Janet Henfrey | Arnie Breeveld | Tony Alleff
Directors: Peter Greenaway
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The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband’s restaurant. Food, colour coding, sex, murder, torture and cannibalism are the exotic fare in this beautifully filmed but brutally uncompromising modern fable which has been interpreted as an allegory for Thatcherism.

Fracture (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Anthony Hopkins | Ryan Gosling | David Strathairn | Rosamund Pike | Embeth Davidtz | Billy Burke | Cliff Curtis | Fiona Shaw | Bob Gunton | Josh Stamberg | Xander Berkeley | Zoe Kazan | Judith Scott | Gary Cervantes | Petrea Burchard
Directors: Gregory Hoblit
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Wealthy, brilliant, and meticulous Ted Crawford, a structural engineer in Los Angeles, shoots his wife and entraps her lover. He signs a confession; at the arraignment, he asserts his rights to represent himself and asks the court to move immediately to trial. The prosecutor is Willy Beachum, a hotshot who’s soon to join a fancy civil-law firm, told by everyone it’s an open and shut case. Crawford sees Beachum’s weakness, the hairline fracture of his character: Willy’s a winner. The engineer sets in motion a clockwork crime with all the objects moving in predictable ways.

The Good German (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Thompson | John Roeder | George Clooney | Tobey Maguire | Cate Blanchett | Dominic Comperatore | Dave Power | Tony Curran | Ravil Isyanov | J. Paul Boehmer | Igor Korosec | Boris Kievsky | Vladimir Kulikov | Yevgeniy Narovlyanskiy | Aleksandr Sountsov
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
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Berlin, July, 1945. Journalist Jake Geismer arrives to cover the Potsdam conference, issued a captain’s uniform for easier passage. He also wants to find Lena, an old flame who’s now a prostitute desperate to get out of Berlin. He discovers that the driver he’s assigned, a cheerful down-home sadist named Corporal Tully, is Lena’s keeper. When the body of a murdered man washes up in Potsdam (within the Russian sector), Jake may be the only person who wants to solve the crime: U.S. personnel are busy finding Nazis to bring to trial, the Russians and the Americans are looking for German rocket scientists, and Lena has her own secrets.

Little Children (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Kate Winslet | Patrick Wilson | Jennifer Connelly | Gregg Edelman | Sadie Goldstein | Ty Simpkins | Noah Emmerich | Jackie Earle Haley | Phyllis Somerville | Helen Carey | Catherine Wolf | Mary B. McCann | Trini Alvarado | Marsha Dietlein | Jane Adams
Directors: Todd Field
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Echoes of “Madame Bovary” in the American suburbs. Sarah’s in a loveless marriage, long days with her young daughter at the park and the pool, wanting more. Brad is a househusband, married to a flinty documentary filmmaker. Ronnie is just out of prison - two years for indecent exposure - living with his mother; Larry is a retired cop, fixated on driving Ronnie away. Sarah and Brad connect, a respite of adult companionship at the pool. Ronnie and Larry have their demons. Brad should be studying for the bar; Larry misses his job; Ronnie’s mom thinks he needs a girlfriend. Sarah longs to refuse to be trapped in an unhappy life. Where can these tangled paths lead?

The Painted Veil (2006)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Romance
Countries: China | USA
Actors: Naomi Watts | Edward Norton | Liev Schreiber | Toby Jones | Diana Rigg | Juliet Howland | Anthony Wong Chau-Sang | Maggie Steed | Lorraine Laurence | Johnny Lee | Li Feng | Gesang Meiduo | Alan David | Lucy Voller | Ian Rennick
Directors: John Curran
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This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed too. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discover’s Kitty’s infidelity with one dashing and witty Diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amidst the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it’s too late?

Perfect Stranger (2007)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Halle Berry | Bruce Willis | Giovanni Ribisi | Richard Portnow | Gary Dourdan | Florencia Lozano | Nicki Lynn Aycox | Kathleen Chalfant | Gordon MacDonald | Daniella Van Graas | Paula Miranda | Patti D'Arbanville | Clea Lewis | Tamara Feldman | Gerry Becker
Directors: James Foley
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Rowena Price is a muckraking reporter for a New York paper. When her story about a closeted gay Senator who preaches family values is spiked, she quits and soon finds herself investigating the grisly murder of a childhood friend. Her friend had been dumped by ad exec Harrison Hill, so he’s Rowena’s prime suspect. Rowena gets a job at the ad agency as a temp, and she’s soon the object of Hill’s attentions. She’s helped in her subterfuge by Miles Haley, a friend at the paper who has a secret thing for her. Everyone, it seems, has secrets, including Hill, who must keep his affairs from his wife - her money fuels his lifestyle. Murder will out?