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  • Narcissus and Psyche

    Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor Body for a feature-length film. Borrowing the character of Psyche from mythology and placing her in Europe in the 19th century, the authors give her a “modern” life. She is an attractive young woman – and remains so throughout the film, in spite of one hardship after another. Psyche is libidinous, and her prurient interests shock her staid contemporaries.

  • My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown

    No one expects much from Christy Brown, a boy with cerebral palsy born into a working-class Irish family. Though Christy is a spastic quadriplegic and essentially paralyzed, a miraculous event occurs when, at the age of 5, he demonstrates control of his left foot by using chalk to scrawl a word on the floor. With the help of his steely mother — and no shortage of grit and determination — Christy overcomes his infirmity to become a painter, poet and author.

  • The Prince of Tides

    A troubled Southern man talks to his suicidal sister’s psychiatrist about their family history and falls in love with her (and New York City) in the process.

  • Bun Tang Khai

    Shin and Pongkwan have a cute daughter. which corresponds to that of Grandfather Or Shin’s father had hoped for it. because of Shin’s brothers They all had sons, but Shin still had some anger with his father. therefore refused to return home Still living with his girlfriend Pongkwan. Even though the father has already forgiven Causing the father to decide to send people to take his granddaughter The chaos in this battle has begun.

  • Total Eclipse

    Young, wild poet Arthur Rimbaud and his mentor Paul Verlaine engage in a fierce, forbidden romance while feeling the effects of a hellish artistic lifestyle.

  • Songs from the Second Floor

    A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

  • Rumi: Poet of the Heart

    In 1244, Jelaluddin Rumi, a Sufi scholar in Konya, Turkey, met an itinerant dervish, Shams of Tabriz. A powerful friendship ensued. When Shams died, the grieving Rumi gripped a pole in his garden, and turning round it, began reciting imagistic poetry about inner life and love of God. After Rumi’s death, his son founded the Mevlevi Sufi order, the whirling dervishes. Lovers of Rumi’s poems comment on their power and meaning, including religious historian Huston Smith, writer Simone Fattal, poet Robery Bly, and Coleman Barks, who reworks literal translations of Rumi into poetic English. Musicians accompany Barks and Bly as they recite their versions of several of Rumi’s ecstatic poems.

  • Moulin Rouge!

    A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Parisian nightclub, at the cusp of the 20th century. A young poet, who is plunged into the heady world of Moulin Rouge, begins a passionate affair with the club’s most notorious and beautiful star.

  • Man on the Train

    A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier. The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other’s life.

  • Sylvia

    Story of the relationship between the poets Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath.