CURRY WESTERN
Fiction by Kamal Musale / 2018 / available in english with french subtitles
Sheela learns that her father has suddenly died in the jungle ! Despite her dislike for her father, Sheela and her husband Simon, go to India to sell the property she inherited. When they arrive, they encounter Bindu who declares himself to be her father’s “spiritual son”, and who claims rather violently his right to the property. These three people trapped by their own basest natures come unhinged in the Indian jungle, with darkly comic results…and where civilization never seemed so far away.
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CLARA HASKIL – THE PERFORMER’S ENIGMA
Documentary by Pascal Cling, Prune Jaillet and Pierre-Olivier François / 2017 / available in french, german and french with english subtitles
How can one define the enigma of the interpreter she so perfectly embodies? This question, which permeates throughout the whole film, allows Clara Haskil to be discovered as a person and an artist and whom Vladimir Horowitz, Pablo Casals, Christian Zacharias or Charlie Chaplin recognized as the “perfect interpreter”.
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OF MEN AND WAR
Documentary by Laurent Bécue-Renard / 2014 / available in english with french subtitles
Anger consumes a dozen combat vets long after their return from the front. The warriors in Of Men and War have come home to the United States, but their minds are stuck out on the battlefield. Like figures from a Greek tragedy, all have traumatic memories that haunt them to this day. Ghosts and echoes of the war fill their lives. Threats seem to spring out from everywhere. Wives, children, and parents bear the burden of their shattered spirits.
