Director Lucian Pintilie
Year 1994
Subject Feature
Artist Kristin Scott-Thomas
Language English
Running Time 82 minutes
Distributor New Yorker Video
Comments: From the director of the acclaimed The Oak comes this unconventional love story set against a background of political confusion. Kristin Scott-Thomas gives a tour-de-force performance as Marie-Therese, the young woman sent to a remote military outpost with her husband and their children. She tries in vain to establish a genteel, civilized presence in this backward region. Ultimately, she and her husband are thrown into conflict as he is ordered by his superiors to execute a local group of bandits that may or may not be guilty. This fascinating film follows the lives of a cultured family in the middle of a brutal culture clash between the old world and the new.
Director Paul Mazursky
Year 1978
Subject Feature Film
Language English
Running Time 124 minutes
Distributor CBS Fox Video
Comments: A compassionate story in which Jill Clayburgh delivers an unsparing self-examination of a woman's individuality, as she attempts to survive alone. Along the way to self-discovery Erica makes desperate, yet comic attempts to liberate herself sexually, until she meets the one man who can show her how to stand on her own. With Alan Bates, Michael Murphy.
Director Tomas Gutierres Alea
Year 1985
Subject Feature
Artist Oscar Alaverez, Mirta Ibarra, Omar Valdes, Coralio Veloz
Screenplay Juan Carlos Tabio, Serafin Quinones, & Tomas Gutierrez Alea
Language Spanish with English Sub
Titles
Running Time 70 minutes
Distributor New Yorker Video
Comments: A clever, self-reflexive satire about the battle of the sexes in a contemporary Cuba, Up To A Certain Point tells the story of Oscar, an educated, liberal filmmaker who, in doing research for a film about the social problem of machismo in Cuban society, finds himself falling in love with the sexy, liberated Lina, a pioneering female dockworker. What starts out as a funny and tender love story gets more and more frantic as Oscar finds he can't choose between his wife and his new lover.
