21ST MAY 2024

LIST OF FILMS ABOUT ADVENTURES BETWEEN LIFE AND DEATH





LA CHIMERA (2023) DIR. BY ALICE ROHRWACHER

ENGLISH ARCHAEOLOGIST ARTHUR HAS AN EXCEPTIONAL TALENT WHEN IT COMES TO ETRUSCAN TOMB RAIDING WITH HIS CALABRIAN FRIENDS. BEING LOST IN HIS GRIEF FOR HIS LATE GIRLFRIEND, HE FINDS A SHRINE OF AN ETRUSCAN GODDESS THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING.





A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946) DIR. BY MICHAEL POWELL AND EMER IC PRESSBURGER

AN ANGEL FROM HEAVEN COMES TO EARTH AS A PILOT SURVIVES A HELICOPTER CRUSH AND MISSES ON HIS TURN TO GO TO HEAVEN. A WAR-TIME MASTERPIECE FABLE BY POWELL AND PRESSBURGER.





MICHAEL (1996) DIR. BY NORA EPHRON

FROM A ROMCOM MASTER NORA EPHRON, THIS FILM FOLLOWS AN ARCHANGEL MICHAEL TRYING TO MATCH TWO CHICAGO REPORTERS THAT GAVE UP ON LOVE TOGETHER.





FINDING NEVERLAND (2004) DIR. BY MARC FORSTER

THE CHARACTERS BEHIND J.M. BARRIE’S NEVERLAND AND THEIR LIFE STORY. STARRING JONNY DEPP AND FREDDIE HIGHMORE.





THE CONSEQUENCES OF LOVE (2004) DIR. BY PAOLO SORRENTINO

TITTA DI GIROLAMO HAS A VERY PECULIAR LIFE, LIVING IN A HOTEL, HAVING ISSUES WITH DRUG ADDICTION AND BEING AN ACCOUNTANT FOR THE GANGSTERS. EVERYTHING CHANGES WHEN HE OBSERVES A WAITRESS SOFIA. FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE YOUNG POPE (2016) AND THE ACTOR FROM THE GREAT BEAUTY (2013).





ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF SPOTLESS MIND (2004) DIR. BY MICHEL GONDRY

MICHEL GONDRY’S AMERICAN SCI-FI MOVIE ABOUT FEELING OF FALLING IN AND OUT OF LOVE. STARRING JIM CARREY, KATE WINSLET, KIRSTEN DUNST AND ELIJAH WOOD.





ORFEU NEGRO (1959) DIR. BY MARCEL CAMUS

WRITTEN BY A BRAZILIAN POET AND DIPLOMAT VINICIUS DE MORAES, A STORY THAT IS BASED ON THE MYTH ABOUT ORPHEUS AND HIS BELOVED EURYDICE AMIDST A CARNIVAL IN RIO DE JANEIRO.





SUSPIRIA (2018) DIR. BY LUCA GUADAGNINO

A REMAKE OF AN ALL-TIME GIALLO CLASSIC OF DARIO ARGENTO, RECREATED BY LUCA GUADAGNINO, STARRING DAKOTA JOHNSON, TAKING US TO THE 70S BERLIN.





FLIGHTS IN DREAMS AND REALITY (1984) DIR. BY ROMAN BALAYAN

A SOVIET CLASSIC ABOUT A MIDDLE-AGED MAN EXPERIENCING A LIFE CRISIS.





AT HOME AMONG STRANGERS, A STRANGER AMONG HIS OWN (1974) DIR. BY NIKITA MIKHALKOV

AN ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECE (SOME SAY HIS FIRST AND LAST) BY NIKITA MIKHALKOV ABOUT A GROUP OF FRIENDS AND A STOLEN CHEST OF GOLD DURING THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF THE 1917.

LINDA DE MORRER (2015) DIR. BY CRIS D’AMATO

A BRILLIANT AND LIGHT(DESPITE THE  TOPIC) COMEDY (WITH SOME STRONG HUMOUR) ABOUT PAULA, AN EXTREMELY SUCCESSFUL AND BUSY DOCTOR THAT INVENTS NEW MEDICINE THAT HAS DEATH AS ITS SIDE EFFECTS. 


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