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Ventrua Pons
Spain's Best Feature Film Maker
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| Caresses |
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Caresses
From Ventura Pons, Spain’s most prolific and adventurous filmmaker, comes a kaleidoscopic x-ray of urban desire and erotic collisions set in the sultry nocturnal streets of Barcelona. Night in a big city. Eleven inter-locking stories of intimate ecounters reveal a poignant and eloquent topography of urban alienation and polymorphous sexuality (gay, lesbian, straight, young and old). Under the expert hand of Pons and the excellent performances of his actors, these pan sexual trysts while self-destructive are irresistibly tender.
Spain/Color/96 mins/Catalan w/English subtitles/1997
DVD-$29.95
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| To Die (or Not) |
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To Die (or Not)
Seven individual stories each ending in the death of the main character, that is until fate (as in the form of Ventura Pons, the film maker) intervenes and re-writes history. To Die (or Not) gives us seven stories that are separate yet intertwined in their outcome. A desperate director with a creative block, a junky that just can’t quite the habit, a little girl who chokes on a chicken bone, a hospital patient who can’t reach the emergency call button, a woman who swallows too many pills, a biker run down by the police and a businessman who is laid low by a hired assassin. In part one, To Die, each character meets their death head on while the people around them struggle to take meaning in the events. Then in part two Or Not, the clock is turned back and we see how one slight change of events effects all that could have occurred.
Spain/Color/92 mins/Catalan w/ English subtitles/1999
DVD-$29.95
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| What's It All About |
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What’s It All About
The film is an amusing minimalist frieze in fifteen episodes about human behavior (Desire, Submission, Love, Jealousy, Wisdom, Honesty, Faith...) situated between two fantastic stories about Willpower and Doubt. Taken as a whole, What’s it All About offers an amusing and cruel view of modern man, his
contradictions, his frustrations, his lack of
communication, his solitude and his confusion.
Spain/Color/96 min/Catalan w/ English subtitles/1997
DVD-$29.95
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