Meet the inhabitants of the "Casa di Riposa" in Milan, the world's first nursing home for retired opera singers, founded by composer Giuseppe Verdi in 1896. In his documentary film Tosca's Kiss, which has developed an underground cult following over the years and is a favorite among opera and music lovers worldwide, director Daniel Schmid has captured a world in which these won...
"Schmid’s satire on 19th-century class relations is also a thinly veiled commentary on the failure of the 1968 political revolution. Once a year, an aristocratic Austrian family holds a traditional feast at which masters and servants trade places (the basic idea reminds Pirandello and a short story by Poe where the inmates of a asylum switch places with the doctors.) A troupe o...
'In NOTRE DAME DE LA CROISETTE' Schmid turns his abundant eye on that loved and despised Mecca of European film life, the Cannes International Film Festival. Bulle Ogier stars as a woman who goes to Cannes and, lost in its chaos and unable to obtain tickets, ends up watching it on television from her hotel room. But the spectacle-in-the-box brings her much more of the world tha...
Beautiful, detached, laconic, consumptive Lily Brest is a streetwalker with few clients. She loves her idle boyfriend Raoul who gambles away what little she earns. The town's power broker, called the rich Jew, discovers she is a good listener, so she's soon busy. Raoul imagines grotesque sex scenes between Lily and the Jew; he leaves her for a man. Her parents, a bitter Fascist...
《被画的容颜》是被誉为“日本梅兰芳”的国宝级歌舞伎大师坂东玉三郎的个人自传性质影音作品,集声光色影等多种高超艺术表现手法于一身,通过原汁原味的古典曲艺表演、日本若干古典艺术表演界名魁的今昔对比、玉三郎亲自制作的情景短片等部分折射出女形表演者 错综复杂的内心感受。摩登与怀 旧互照,今日与昨日对比,现实与梦幻交织,男与女的角色转换,共同组成了这幅以美丽与哀愁为主题的艺术家的内心写真。
Daniel Schmid sets this amour fou in exquisite interiors against the glittering backdrop of a clash of cultures: European colonialism on the one hand and the dark, secretive labyrinth of the Arab world on the other.
The strangeness and oriental fascination of North Africa have often served as an attractive backdrop for tales of unbridled passion and unpredictable actions. In Hé...