
Since Osvaldo is a wealthy landowner, his beautiful wife Maria is forced to live in the countryside. Read More »
Author Archives: rarefilm
The Chambermaid (2018) Lila Avilés, Gabriela Cartol, Agustina Quinci, Teresa Sánchez

A look at the working environment of a chambermaid in one of Mexico City’s most luxurious hotels. Read More »
One Hundred Steps (2000) Marco Tullio Giordana, Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, Lucia Sardo

“I cento passi” (one hundred steps) was the distance between the Impastatos’ house and the house of Tano Badalamenti Read More »
Tower of Nesle (1955) Abel Gance, Pierre Brasseur, Silvana Pampanini, Paul Guers

France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy Read More »
Who Knows? (2001) Jacques Rivette, Jeanne Balibar, Sergio Castellitto, Marianne Basler

The theatre world is a familiar setting for the films of Rivette. In Va savoir, the characters, all quick-witted Read More »
I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) Patricia Rozema, Sheila McCarthy, Paule Baillargeon, Ann-Marie MacDonald

Scatterbrained Polly gets a job as a secretary in Gabrielle’s art gallery. Read More »
Gas, Inspector Palmu! (1961) Matti Kassila, Joel Rinne, Matti Ranin, Leo Jokela

A rich widow is found dead of gas poisoning in her flat in Helsinki. Read More »
Hawks and Sparrows (1966) Pier Paolo Pasolini, Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi

This richly symbolic film is really impossible to understand without some knowledge of 20th Century Italian history Read More »
Khadak (2006) Peter Brosens, Jessica Woodworth, Batzul Khayankhyarvaa, Tsetsegee Byamba, Banzar Damchaa

Magical realism, epilepsy, and the steppes of Mongolia. A pilot dies. His son Bagi, who, like his father, has epilepsy Read More »
Legacy of the 500,000 (1963) Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tsutomu Yamazaki

During the Second World War, Takeichi Matsuo had participated in hiding a huge cache of gold in the Phillippine mountains. Read More »