In the Comanche territories of 1719, the young Naru tries to prove herself as a hunter equal to the young males of the community, led by her brother Taabe. She gets her chance when she, following them stealthily, joins a lion hunting expedition. Along the way she comes across the tracks of another more dangerous predator, but she can’t convince anyone that she’s not just a simple bear. Coming from another world, this predator is all too real, determined to seek hunting challenges worthy of itself and protected by stealth technology that makes it almost invisible...
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Nate, a doctor and widower, takes his daughters Mere and Norah to South Africa to try to reconcile with them, destroyed by the loss of their mother, separated from Nate for some years. For their safari in the savannah they rely on the care of Martin, a longtime friend and expert tracker. During an excursion, however, Martin runs into a tsonga village exterminated by a beast, most likely a mad lion...
Read More ...90’s. Callum and Sophie, Scottish father and daughter, are on holiday in a Turkish seaside resort, near: one of those villages where the “all inclusive” formula makes those who are not really wealthy feel affluent. Callum and Sophie look great too, and they really aren’t. The father is about to turn 31, the daughter is 11, which means that she was born when Callum was just twenty, and he no longer lives with the girl’s mother: therefore this holiday, which precedes the beginning of the year school, it’s an oasis to hold on to in the midst of an imminent separation. With the help of modern devices, Callum and Sophie document every moment of their short vacation, but something always remains on the edge of the frame: a suffering gaze, a hidden cry...
Read More ...London, 1943. Officers Ewen Montagu and Charles Cholmondeley, members of MI5 who are developing an effective counter-espionage system (Double Cross) during the war, devise an improbable and ingenious plan to deceive the Nazis and make them believe that the allies will land in Greece instead of in Sicily. The ploy consists in letting the corpse of Major William Martin drift adrift near the Spanish coast, provided with a file of information proving his existence and the false invasion plan. The major in question is actually a poor devil who died poisoned and ‘lent’ to his homeland who invents a new identity for him. Leading the Mincemeat operation, with Montagu and Cholmondeley, are also Ian Fleming, James Bond’s father, and Jean Leslie, secret service secretary who inspires the romance of William Martin and falls madly in love with the two officers...
Read More ...In 1920s Hollywood, silent cinema was at its technical peak, but was about to be supplanted by the advent of sound. Jack Conrad is a star known for his wild parties, while Nellie LaRoy and Manny Torres are two young people in search of success: she soon becomes an actress while he struggles as a production assistant. Inspired by the title of the famous book by Kenneth Anger Hollywood Babylon, the new invigorating film by Damien Chazelle tells with great deployment of means the rise and fall of its heroes, in a corrupt and promiscuous world but also full of great creative energy...
Read More ...Decorated war veteran Will Sharp is desperate for money because his wife is suffering from cancer and needs urgent experimental surgery that costs more than $230,000. He enlists the help of Danny, his adoptive brother, who, to help him, proposes a $32 million bank robbery, the largest in the history of Los Angeles...
Read More ...The story of a fugitive named Lin Ford (Charlie Hunnam) who tries to hide his tracks in the vibrant and chaotic Bombay of the eighties. Alone in an unfamiliar city, Lin struggles to escape the problems he’s running away from in this new place...
Read More ...The Crowded Room, a project that had been on hold at the New Regency for a decade, is adapting Daniel Keyes’ book for the big screen. It tells the story of Billy Milligan, a man with 24 multiple personalities. During a trial for the robbery and rape of three women on the Ohio State University campus, Milligan pleaded mentally ill and was able to prove that two of his personalities, the lesbian Adalana and the Yugoslav communist Ragen, had committed the crimes without that he was aware of it...
Read More ...In Blacksmith, a small town in the Midwest, the daily life of the Gladney family runs unperturbed: Jack, Babette and their four children, born from previous marriages. A routine punctuated by television sessions, father-son comparisons, reasoned or unreasonable talks about this or that piece of news, talk about this or that other product and ritual visits to the supermarket, where everyone indulges in the frenetic consumption of objects, messages, noise. A background noise that haunts Jack, a professor at College on the Hill, where he founded a department of Hitler studies. For some time now man has been living in a dull and constant fear of death...
Read More ...1952. Sammy Fabelman is six years old and doesn’t want to go to the cinema, he is afraid to face that world of giants. His mother assures him that movies are unforgettable dreams, his father reassures him by describing the prodigy of a machine that makes still images move. In front of their child, Mitzi and Burt each assume their own role: poetry on the one hand, technology on the other. In room Cecil B. DeMille’s Greatest Show on Earth does the rest...
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