The film articulates raw pieces of painful reality, taken from individual and collective spheres. Three clippings from newspapers which descibe the absolute horror of barbarity practised in certains corners of the world, personal letters read in off voices and city images bestow on this film a seriousness and evident emotional weight. A live memory against a world which institionalizes forgetting.
An in-depth look into the making of the film Annie (1982). It covers the adaptation changes from the original Broadway musical, the hiring of director John Huston, the nationwide search to cast the title role, the production process, and the conception of several musical numbers, including a different version of the song "Easy Street" than the one that ended up in the film.
The Bed opens with Jamie, a young man, looking round an old, deserted country house. Through flashback we see Jamie as a boy, scared out of his wits when his older sister and her boyfriend, left alone in the house to babysit Jamie for the evening, play cruel tricks on him.
The ape-man, found somewhere in the jungles of Congo, transferred to Milan and named Bingo Bongo. The only one who believes in the human qualities of him is Laura, a woman anthropologist , so their affection for each other even grows to love.
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Have you watched Soliloque 2 / La Barbarie yet? What did you think about it?