On Réunion island, inhabitants of Malagasy origin perform a ceremony in honor of their family's ancestors twice a year. The ritual in this film takes place at the home of Madame Sautron, a soothsayer-healer. The film follows the four stages of the ceremony, which lasts for 24 hours in all.
Tony desperately needs some cold hard cash to help finance his next big business venture. He left Brooklyn years ago to get away from his old man and now is shacked up with his main squeeze, Aphrodite, in a Venice flophouse.
Resurrectus Est is a hand painted film which suggests, from the first, a spread of fragments of plants and flowers, individual petals and bits of twig with multiple colors, with much green "leafiness".
By a stupid coincidence, single mother Tanja and her two children have to share their vacation home on the Cote d'Azur with the writer Paul Wackernagel.
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