Alex and Fabrizio form an ideal couple. High-fliers, they haven't
yet got around to starting a family, but they content themselves with
their dog, Esperanza. When Alex is offered a post in New York,
she is initially delighted, but soon has second thoughts. If she
accepts the job, she will have to give up the idea of having a child of
her own. She is past forty and she can hear her biological clock
counting down the minutes to infertility. Unable to discuss the
matter with Fabrizio, Alex decides to open her heart to a
psychiatrist. Fabrizio has his own menopausal anxieties and also
decides to consult a psychiatrist, not realising that it is the same
person that Alex has been seeing...
The cinema of Japan is noteworthy for its purity, subtlety and visual impact. The films of Ozu, Mizoguchi and Kurosawa are sublime masterpieces of film poetry.
In his letters to his friends and family, Franz Kafka gives us a rich self-portrait that is surprisingly upbeat, nor the angst-ridden soul we might expect.
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
At the time of the Nazi Occupation of France during WWII, the German-run company Continental produced some of the finest films made in France in the 1940s.