When shy dork Lars overcomes his problems by adopting a life-size doll as his girlfriend, the event is treated seriously, rather than derisively, in this distinctly odd small town American community. The doll is treated as a celebrity, asked to parties, offered jobs as a teacher, nurse and, more appropriately, as a clothes model, events that open up Lars's own social horizon. Despite his mental short comings he still attracts fellow office worker Margo and the two seem well suited to each oth find out more...
Adam Elliot's follow-up to his short opus 'Harvie Krumpet' is a tour-de-force of jaw-dropping animation, heart-wrenching beauty and exquisite sadness. Ostensibly, it's a tale of friendship between two pen pals; Mary, a lonely eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year-old obese man living in New York and suffering from Asperger's syndrome. The depth of pathos in their quasi-romantic exchanges becomes unbearable at times, but the expertly nuanced narrati find out more...
A young and beautiful concert pianist has lost her ability to perform, is emotionally fraught and close to collapse. A gifted young psychiatrist takes up her case and becomes determined to unravel the secrets that have brought her to this point, a task that will involve her brooding guardian, a man who treats the young woman with an aggressive contempt for which there seems no justification. The Seventh Veil is a deliciously dark tale of desire and repression, dripping in atmosphere and inten find out more...
