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Despicable Dick and Righteous Richard

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Dick Kuchera has been pissing people off for 50 years. A recovering alcoholic from North Dakota, he finally musters the courage to complete the eighth and ninth steps of the 12-Step Program. With a list of everyone he's wronged -- from ex-wives to ex-mistresses, abandoned children to slighted pals -- Richard tries to make amends. But has he really changed.

It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve Il se peut que la beauté ait renforcé notre résolution - Masao Adachi

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This tribute to radical Japanese writer-director Masao Adachi is the first in a series of retrospectives from filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux. Grandrieux's incendiary series is dedicated to filmmakers informed by a sense of deep political agitation a criteria that far-left cinematic insurrectionist Masao Adachi certainly qualifies for. After producing a number of crucial films in a 1960s Japan blanketed by a paranoia of Communism and the left, Adachi gave up filmmaking in 1971 to join the Japanese Red Army, a militant left-wing organisation operating out of Lebanon. Thirty-five years later, he has made his return to the world of film, still as subversive and confronting as ever.Grandrieux delves into the complex history of this fascinating figure of political cinema, crafting a reverential tribute to a man whose actions spoke as loudly as his images.

Despair

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Germany in the early 1930s. Against the backdrop of the Nazis' rise, Hermann Hermann, a Russian migr and chocolate magnate, goes slowly mad. It begins with his seating himself in a chair to observe himself making love to his wife, Lydia, a zaftig empty-headed siren who is also sleeping with her cousin. Hermann is soon given to intemperate outbursts at his workers, other businessmen, and strangers. Then, he meets Felix, an itinerant laborer, whom he delusionally believes looks exactly like himself. Armed with a new life insurance policy, he hatches an elaborate plot in the belief it will free him of all his worries.

Goon

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Labelled an outcast by his brainy family, a bouncer overcomes long odds to lead a team of under performing misfits to semi-pro hockey glory, beating the crap out of everything that stands in his way.

Mother and Child

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Almost forty years ago, a young girl of fourteen has sex, gets pregnant, and gives her baby up for adoption. Fast-forwarding to the present day, we meet three very different women, each of whom struggles to maintain control of their lives. There's Elizabeth, a smart and successful lawyer who uses her body to her advantage. Any time she feels that she doesn't have the upper hand, and cannot control the situation, she uses her sex appeal - whether that be starting a romance with her boss when she suspects he is trying to start one himself, or finding some way to control her overly friendly neighbor and husband. Karen, meanwhile, is a bitter health care professional who obviously has a lot of heart but never shows it. She gave up a daughter at the age of fourteen (wonderfully shown rather than told, she is the young girl and mother of Elizabeth), and has never gotten over it - her bitterness inspiring her to lash out at everyone around her - even the gentle man at work who is undeniably drawn to her. Finally, Lucy is a woman who has failed to conceive with her husband, so she turns to adoption to make the family she desires.