Michel Foucault Werner Schroeter, La Conversation is the third of the four film encounters I have had with Werner Schroeter. Unlike the first two, this time a personality from outside the German filmmaker's work joined the meeting. But what a personality! The great philosopher Michel Foucault.
In the bright sunlight of opera buffa, a handsome Turkish prince (with an agile bass voice) lands on the coast of Naples looking for amorous adventures.
A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.
One-hour documentary recounts the untold story of the remarkable rise and fall of the Thanhouser Studio, one of American’s pioneering motion picture studios during the first decade of the twentieth century.
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