Marie and Niels are happily married with three young children; their life would seem to personify contentment. Cecilie and Joachim are just about to begin the path Marie and Niels are already walking, but something happens that none of them could have foreseen or indeed thought possible and the lives of all four begin to unravel. 'Open Hearts' is an incredibly powerful and moving film, uncompromising and unflinchingly honest about the fickleness of love it can't help but stir the soul (or at the
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RED ANGEL (1966)
Certification15 Our Rating
Set in the Sino-Japanese war, Yasuzo Masumura's black-and-white anti-war film tells of an army nurse who sexually services an amputee and falls in love with a drug-addicted surgeon. This can't be recommended to the squeamish, but neither can its nuanced eroticism nor its passionate, unpredictable moral focus, be easily shaken off. Comparable with Altman's MASH, it suggests a less comic treatment of the same theme, how to preserve one's humanity in impossible circumstances, but its ethics are con
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SAFE (1995)
Certification15 Our Rating
A woman living in the modern world gets struck by a C20th disease, an allergy to all things environmentally unfriendly, and is forced to seek sanctuary in the Texas desert with the evangelical and the afflicted. A tale of our possible future? Psychological suspense, horrifying and occasionally comic.
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SIXTH HAPPINESS (1997)
Certification12 Our Rating
Brit Kotwal was born with brittle bone disease in a Parsee community in Bombay, and as he grows into a man, helped and hindered by his eccentric and dysfunctional family, Brit becomes keen to the point of obsession to facilitate his sexual awakening. Sixth Happiness is based on Firdaus Kanga's (who also stars) acclaimed autobiography and it's a witty, acerbic, touching and thoughtful portrayal of a remarkable human, beautifully shot and unsentimentally visualised.
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THE COLOUR OF PARADISE (1999)
Certification15 Our Rating
Mohammad, a boy at Tehran's institute for the blind, waits for his dad to pick him up for summer vacation. While waiting, he realizes a baby bird has fallen from its nest, he chases away a cat, finds the bird, climbs a tree, and puts it back. His father finally comes and takes him to their village where his sisters and granny await. The lad is a loving student of nature and longs for village life with his family, but his father is ashamed of him, wanting to farm the boy out to clear the way for
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