For centuries people couldn't accept one human form of relationship. While big age difference between lovers doesn't raise eyebrows of too many people, when same-sex love seems to be regularized and marriage is a possibility in many countries, people still have problems with accepting incest. What makes a brother and a sister so besotted with each other that they'd rather die than be set apart? What makes a desire so strong that no law can prevent two people from being together, both physically and emotionally? Why being born of the same parents doesn't stop people from falling for each other? And why your world news still tend to be disturbed by an intrusion of a heading of a father-daughter, mother-son or sister-brother relationship? A fairy-tale romance on the matter. Brother and sister. And love. Marguerite&Julien.
If you wish to set off on a journey where you don't feel discriminated by your family members, poked fun at by people in the street, or constrained by the bad atmosphere at work, fall for one of the convolutes plots of Wes Anderson's wit. There might be camps which you haven't visited, there might be love affairs which don't seem believable, there might be pursuits which seem out of this world. But finally, there might be adventures which will take you to the world of a classic good story, bizarre humor, memorable characters and a few hours of forgetting why you came here in the first place. Moonrise Kingdom.
Have you ever found yourself attracted to an underage person? Have you watched a porn film with the word "teen" shining shamelessly in between the remaining words of the voluptuous heading? Have you enjoyed a film with an underage actress or actor, admitting that you feel particularly driven to her/his looks/intelligence/body? Have you even wondered what if? What if you just loosened the reigns of your morals and scruples? Will you be taking part in a blissful romance or will you be involved in a trap constructed by a mischievous mind, only seemingly nice and innocent? Beware, Hard Candy.
Love is one of the greatest mysteries on Earth. It makes everything fade: your family, pursuits, even your dreams. It makes you reevaluate some priorities in life. Is asks you what makes you happy and what you cannot imagine keeping going on without. Love is stronger than plans, as it makes a lot of people rewrite their most precise life scenarios. It helps us move continents, learn languages, develop skills. It can be happy or tragic, long-lasting and short. There are hundreds of stories of happy couples and those less happy ones who had to flee, abandon homes and professions, abdicate from the positions of kings, dukes, and priests. So if you're in a mood for a love story, which was based on a real-life forbidden affair, enjoy this tale: Elvira Madigan.
When everybody in your nearest proximity is getting married or engaged and you start to be tired of all the stories of happy endings. When your love life is over or you are in between serious relationships, or you recently ended a long lasting one and the last thing you want from life is to take part in another painful fling. If so, ponder over the nature of relationships. Think what you want from life, whether it is a brief romance, fidelity, and exclusiveness, adventure or a family. Maybe you wish just to meet new people and not to get attached. Possibly it's a great time for you to finish some unfinished business, to work on your career, to pay off some loans, to complete your studies. It might be a great time to polish your friendships, enroll in a language course or simply have fun, get drunk, laugh out loud and appreciate these rare moments of solitude. A light and funny comedy with some inspiring truths for all of us at some point in our lives. How to be single?
Are you in a mood for erotic experience? What if as a student you entered a group which seemed so revolutionary and open-minded that the sole thought of their company made you blush? What if you were involved in a play that drove you crazy over the possibility of exploring your sexuality? What if a pair of siblings invited you over to their apartment and shared their love for films and broke the boundaries of law and morals with your innocent soul? An intriguing sexual fantasy behind the closed doors, which is where all the spicy bits usually happen. Let yourself dream the dream of The Dreamers.
Every day we make food decisions. We decide what to eat for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, what snacks to buy in between our meals, whether to eat at home and prepare the meal ourselves, whether to buy ready meals and just preheat them with little effort, whether to go to a standard restaurant or to a fast food restaurant. The majority of our decisions are based on money. Sometimes the same amount of money has to be spent by the family of two and be enough for the family of four or six. The more you earn, the more items are available on your food list. You can buy your Starbucks coffee and your McDonald's meal. You can invest in your Coca-Cola bottle and order Chinese food or a pizza. But does being slightly better-off really make us healthier? Why the inhabitants of African tribes who still depend on hunting and gathering seem to be much more resistant to diseases and the effects of aging than you: the average citizen of developed countries, whose hunting capabilities are limited to the run to the convenience store or a supermarket? What food should we eat? What simple rules should we apply to our eating habits? What should be our ideals in achieving the aim of a healthy life devoid of heart attacks, strokes, and cancer? And why the answers are so simple? In Defense of Food.
The game of love seems to be so easy. Ideally, you fall in love, get married and spend the rest of your life with this one person. Why then it still happens to so few of us? What if you are in love with more than one person? Why is it so difficult to make one choice and stick to it for the rest of your life? Why is sexuality so fluid? What will be the result of a game of love between the three truly besotted with each other? An entertaining play on a Parisian love affair. Enjoy.
Have you ever dreamed of becoming a famous actress with the position of Julia Roberts? Have you wished for a career of another Britney Spears or someone equally successful? Is your life the effect of your unfulfilled dreams and are you pushing your children to ballet schools, dancing classes, acting lessons and beauty competitions, when in fact it is your ambition that went unfulfilled? It is never too late to make your dreams come true. And even though the lack of talent and skill prevented many from achieving their aims, there were those who accomplished theirs regardless of obstacles. An interesting take on marriage and white lies which make at least one woman happy. Florence Foster Jenkins.
Don't you have a feeling that we got lost somewhere in between the McDonald's burger, coffee machine, Nike shoes and a whole lot of labels? Can't you sense that the meaning of life faded during the fever of commercialization? Aren't we stuck in repetitive jobs, earning money which we spend on unnecessary things, and don't we deprive our lives of freedom, equality, wisdom, and sense? Wouldn't you rather lead a different life where it doesn't matter what clothes you wear, what coffee you drink and what cosmetics you put on your face? Wouldn't you rather choose a life in which education, survival, resourcefulness and the ability of creative thinking win the battle with brand loyalty, customer service and dress code? Why the choice between comfortable life and corporation, and art school and poverty line forces us to be in the wrong place and to fall into the trap of a fake, manufactured destination?
What if there was one big family who outwitted the system and created something unique? Captain Fantastic. Entirely brilliant.
We are surrounded by nudity, pornography, and sex. We pay models for sexual poses to advertise clothes, perfumes, and shoes. We associate sex with attractiveness, we take demand for desire. We fall into the trap of appeal and availability.
How to distinguish the thin lines between relationship abuse and the abuse by a stranger? What can we call provocative and what should be condemned as immoral? Why so many men have problems with making the difference between consent and the lack of it? Why so many don't take 'no' for an answer? Why so many women suffer from someone's unfulfilled desires and misjudgment? Why are we each other's greatest enemies, when criticizing body image, and why so many men treat women as objects, whether at home, at work or in their social circle? Why so many women have to suffer the irreversible consequences of rape, abuse, and mistreatment? This is a film for viewers with strong nerves, but watching is just a mild form of experiencing what others suffered or suffer on the everyday basis. Irréversible
Do you want to be taken to an adventure where love has no age limits, where flying is a pursuit of desire, metaphor and catching the unachievable? Do you want to witness a romance which breaks the boundaries of conventions? Do you want to experience a difficult relationship where the roles of mother and daughter seem to be misplaced? And, finally, do you want to fly the flight of freedom, both sexual and artistic with the soundtrack by Goran Bregović and Iggy Pop? If so, dream the dream of Arizona Dream. Enjoy.
If you want to experience one good camping adventure when the least expected criminals turn the whole country into a hunting campaign, if your idea of a family is slightly different from the standard one, if you love beautiful landscapes of New Zealand's paradise, this is something definitely for you. Deprived of the silliness of superficial toys, technology gadgets, and special effects, it's one true story of a boy and a man and all crazy folks around them. Simplicity and a great sense of humor which lingers with you for a little longer. Hunt for the Wilderpeople.
Let's talk about climate change. Let's talk about me. I eat beef, which contributes significantly to the air pollution as cows need a lot of plants to eat and, as a result, they produce gases which go to the atmosphere. I'm neither vegan nor vegetarian, which means I kill animals for the pure pleasure of consuming meat. Of course, I don't kill them personally. I pay big corporations to receive nicely portioned and clean pieces of meat which I prepare at home in the form of chops. I even come from a town which is one of the biggest producers of meat throughout my country. I could stop eating beef, shifting from beef to fish or chicken, with a hope that in 20 years time I will not be consumed by cancer, stroke or suffer from a heart attack. I don't drive as I don't have a driving license. Consequently, I use the public transport. I sometimes walk. I live in places heated by coal, so I contribute to the rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. I also waste a lot of plastic bags and produce far too much rubbish. I consume what is available, without growing anything of my own. I even buy books which I read once and probably leave them on the shelf, forgetting that they are the reason for a lot of trees being cut. I'm guilty.
I am guilty of what you are guilty. So let's talk about you. Can you do anything to stop our climate from changing, the icebergs from melting, the coral reefs from dying? Can you think of a way you can leave your planet a little bit better for next generations? Can you use the examples of Sweden and Denmark to shift from fossil fuels to renewable sources of energy? Can you switch from your means of transport and be more eco-friendly? Can you be less cynical about the issue as we know you cannot save the world but you can save at least one person, one garden, one tree?
Let's talk about climate change. Let's talk about us. Can we do something for our world, as I believe that you, me and Leonardo DiCaprio walk on the same planet each day, every day? Can we do something in time Before the Flood?