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Angela wants a child at all costs, but her husband, Emile, refuses. At the end of her tether, she pretends to her husband that she’s asked their friend Alfred to do her the honors and that he’s accepted.
When he is asked to rewrite the screenplay of the Odyssey, which is being filmed by Fritz Lang in Rome, he sets in motion his own odyssey. En route to Rome with his wife Camille, who he adores, his wife tells him that she has nothing but contempt for him.
Director Toshio Matsumoto’s shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece is one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara. No less than Stanley Kubrick cited the film as a direct influence on his own dystopian classic A Clockwork Orange.
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Ambassador of the small South American country of Miranda is trafficking in drugs with some French bourgeois friends of his. But every time they want to have dinner together, their plans are put off due to unexpected events. In their quest of a lavish feast, the dividing-line between reality and dreams becomes unclear for each guest, leading to complete and utter ridicule.
Disillusioned and exhausted after a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight (Max von Sydow) encounters Death on a desolate beach and challenges him to a fateful game of chess.
