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Life and Death
Probably the most sheerly entertaining of all the films made in 1930s Shanghai by 'underground' leftists, this riff on The Prisoner of Zenda is funny and engaging from first to last. The irresistible Yuan Muzhi (director of Street Angel the following year) plays both Li Tao, a revolutionary on the run, and Liu Yuanjie, an American-Chinese teacher visiting China with his fiancée. Liu is mistaken for Li and thrown into jail; Li teams up with the fiancée (Chen Bo'er, Yuan's real life wife) to get him out of prison and into the spirit of revolution. Ying Yunwei (who started out playing female roles in Chinese opera) uses chiaroscuro lighting, highly mobile camerawork and zippy pacing to give it maximum impact, but it's Yuan who really keeps you watching.
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Such Is Life
A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.
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Life is Short
Button's second film, a commercially succesful comedy. Decades later critics wrote that many elements of Button's later films are clearly visible.
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Leap Into Life
A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to return to her tightrope walker lover.
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An Honest Life
Simon arrives in Lund full of anticipation and ready for his life to really begin; but is quickly disappointed by law school. During a violent protest march he meets the anarchistic young woman Max and falls in love. She dazzles him with a world of excess, lies and huge risks - and when he realizes the damage that's done, it's already too late to escape.
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The Last Night in the Life of Death
Every night, Death comes to take care of people who move on from here to forever. But tonight something has changed, and Death is confronted with the possibility that there is no longer any use for his kind. Through seven encounters, Death begins to understand his true fate.
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Death, Life and Luck
Duda, Bebel and Tati are three actresses in love with cinema in São Paulo who decided to put together the play they wrote together. They have it all figured it out but despite their best efforts, the funds for the show don't come and their plans go downhill. In debt, unemployed and at risk of being evicted from their apartment, the three draw inspiration from their favorite movies to find the solution to their problems.
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I Had a Life
Jesús arrives at a housing and employment reincorporation center, after living on the streets for a decade. Now Jesús’ life is full of rules. His struggle doesn’t make sense if he is not free to make his own decisions. After years of depending on social services he leaves the program with all of the risks this decision entails. Elena, the coordinator of the supervised accommodation, is writing her thesis on the reincorporation of homeless people. When Jesús leaves, her research takes a turn and she focuses her thesis on Jesús’ life story. Elena becomes his only emotional support. A brave documentary that seeks to provide a humanist view, an anthropological, non-paternalistic approach to human bodies that at some point are detached from the social body, and a profound interrogation of social normalcy, prejudice, and stigmatization that renders people invisible.
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The Fatal Flaw: Lies, Laws, & Pro-life Deception
This is The Fatal Flaw. This is a film and exposé that demonstrates the real reason abortion is still legal in the United States during and after Roe v. Wade. The Pro-life movement claims to believe that they believe that what is in the womb is fully human and worthy of protection. However, they do not believe that the child deserves equal protection. In this new film, you will learn why they have worked to stop the abolition of abortion. You will hear it yourself. From their own mouths with confidence. They don't believe what the Christian Church believes about the issue. It isn't a difference in strategy. It's a different worldview. It's a different desired outcome. Get ready to see for yourself.
