Ce coffret collector rassemble 2 documentaires riches en revendications sociales et politiques mais aussi en sonorités qui ont marqué leur époque. Entre le mouvement psychédélique brésilien Tropicalia porté par Caetano Veloso et Gilberto Gil et le génial activiste afrobeat Nigérian Fela, le lien est évident.
My Friend Fela
De Fela Kuti, on croit tout savoir : musicien génial, créateur de l’afrobeat, opposant inflexible. À travers les récits de son ami et biographe Carlos Moore, ce documentaire jette un regard neuf sur cette icône. Une personnalité complexe, loin d’être uniquement “une idole excentrique ...
Hitoshi Matsumoto is one of Japan’s most popular comedians (turned director) and TV host. All of his films are surreal, creative and unique, somehow relating to Salvador Dali or Andy Warhol.
This box set includes 3 of his movies, along with manu bonuses:
– Scabbard Zamuraï (2012): Kanjuro Nomi is an aging samurai who only has a scabbard. With a past that made him throw away his sword and refuse to fight, he now journeys to nowhere with Tae, his only daughter. Kanjuro becomes a wanted man for deserting his lord and is sentenced to ”The Thirty-Day Feat”: a formidable task to restore a smile to the sad prince who has...
The new talents of Latin American Cinema brings together 5 never-before-seen films that have won awards at festivals around the world.
The Empty Hours (Las Horas Muertas) by Aaron Fernandez (2014, 100 min, Mexico)
On the Vera Cruz coast, 17-year-old Sebastian must single-handedly take over the management of his uncle’s small motel. He rents rooms by the hour to adulterous couples and casual lovers. Among them, Miranda, a beautiful young woman, regularly comes to meet a man who always keeps her waiting. During these empty hours, Sebastian and Miranda slowly get to know each other and a disturbing complicity is established bet...
This DVD box set includes 2 Tsai Ming-Liang movies.
In Journey to The West, we follow a monk on his way through the streets of a sun-dappled Marseille.
In Stray Dogs, An alcoholic man and his two young children barely survive in Taipei. They cross path with a lonely grocery clerk who might help them make a better life.
One of the world’s best restaurant, the Copenhagen based NOMA and its renowned chef-owner René Redzepi relocate the restaurant and its entire staff to Tokyo.