Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can’t get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons – maker and breaker of careers (and lives) through her daily syndicated newspaper column. The big movie moguls, fed up with Parson’s power over their stars, decide to de-claw her by setting up gossip Hopper as a competitor in the rumour industry. What they couldn’t forsee was that Hopper would become as big as Parsons — and every bit as much of a pain. Based on the true life stories of two of the most powerful (and arguably dangerous) women of Hollywood’s hay-day.
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La Lune
Michel Piccoli reads the first pages of Victor Hugo’s ‘Promontoire du songe’. In this text, Hugo describes his sensations when he sees, enlarged 40 times, the Moon through the telescope of the Observatorium of Paris. His visions drive him into a meditation about the relationships in between dream, reality and poetry.
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Hero of Her Romance
Honest and principled young French horn player of the opera theater, causing his enemies and relatives a lot of trouble and trouble, nevertheless comes “dry” out of difficult situations and, having triumphed in another exposé, achieves mutual love.
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El caso del procurador enamorado
Salamanca, 1973. A congressman in love with his daughter’s teacher hires an assassin to kill his wife.
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Let’s Have a Baby
A charming tale of child-creating complications, featuring a rare comedic performance by Alex Man Chi-leung.
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The Extraordinary Matador
Miguel de Cavier, a Thai-Spanish woman disguised as a man, works as a matador to pay the debts of her father, Julio, an ex-matador who is now disabled after a failed stunt. One day, Saranjit, the mother who had left her since early childhood, returns to Madrid in hope of reuniting with her daughter once again.
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Super Citizen
A young man from the country comes to Taipei to search for his sister from whom he has heard nothing during the past year. Beginning in a tenement slum, the young man travels through the city’s lowlife, where street hustlers sell fake Rolex watches and other contraband, gangs fight each other, and the ubiquitous sex businesses ply their trade. The young man befriends a rich teenage girl and a young prostitute as he and a hustler who knew his sister search for her through a trail of clues leading to restaurants, dance joints, and brothels.
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A Journey Through Fairyland
A boy, the son of famous musicians, is kicked out of a music university when he spends too much time with tending plants. A flower fairy helps him out as thanks for his treatment of the plants.