A transgender Oedipus story.. Very arthouse like experimental Japanese new wave.

Denis Lavant as a sergeant of the French Legion. Sea and desert of the Gulf of Dijbouti. Everyday exercises to keep the body/spirit strong. Dancing with local women to the turkish pop.

Originally a tv series of total 4 hours long made by Russian director Dmitry Vasyukov. Vernor Herzog cuts it down to 1.5 hours and adds his own voice-over narration, which adds up to the phylosofical line of the film.

Mike lives on the streets of Portland. He’s a hustler. A hustler with narcolepsy, a neurological sleep disorder caused by the brain’s inability to regulate sleep-wake cycles normally. Affected by strong emotions narcoleptics may experience  a sudden muscular weakness, and suddenly literally  fall into deep sleep. His friend Scott does the same, but mostly to annoy..
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Adèle  is at her final school years when she meets Emma, a blue-haired fine arts student, and  they get along maybe too well. They come from quite different social backgrounds. Emma  is surrounded by art scene intellectuals, hangs around at homo-bars and  openly lives up to what she believes in. Adèle in turn, comes from..
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Marine Vacth playing a french 17 years old, whose underlying thoughts and motives guiding her are complex to grasp, so fragile the whole thing is, you might as well brake it when trying. Why on earth would she, a girl from a good family, become a prostitute. No one’s serious at seventeen. On beautiful nights..
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After spending quite some time at sea a sailor goes ashore to visit his family leaving in an isolated mountain village in Argentina. And the way is long and snowy. Instead of feeding the spectator with information and guiding him from one scene to another creating all the necessary connections, Alonso chooses a different approach…
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Paul lives in Paris in 60′s. He’s proudly concerned with politics, full of energy and desperately in love.   Being restlessly young, he shouts anti Vietnam War slogans, cracks philosophical jokes and, involved in sociological research  asks you: Do you know that there is hunger in India? Do you know what is communism? What kind of contraceptives do you use? Starting..
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So gorgeously filmed 10 years of complicated relationships between a transvestite writer and the woman he loves despite everything. A perfect way to get an visual idea is actually checking tumbler search.

The film explains why a famous Japanese writer, who was close to getting a Nobel prize in literature committed a ritual suicide by seppuku inside the Tokyo headquarters of the Japanese Ministry of Defence. In the 70’s Yukio Mishima founded a military society which mostly included students and strived to regain the power of the..
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