Cult director, Abel Ferrara invites us to witness the day before everything will cease to be. At 4:44am, the last vestiges of the world’s ozone layer will evaporate and within seconds the word will end. There is no means of escape and there will be no survivors we view the countdown to the end of life on earth through the eyes of actor, Cisco and his artist girlfriend, Skye whose focus in their final hours is love, lust find out more...
The exploration of the enormity of life when a recently deceased ghost returns to his house to try and reconnect with his wife. Made on a shoe string and in secret, it is a hypnotic observation of life and time after we die and it achieves to visually convey the psychological weight of certain death and that life will continue once we're gone. The people sitting next to me left the cinema about 20 minutes in because it is indeed a very slow moving film and I can understand why they left but t find out more...
It becomes apparent early on when viewing Belladonna of Sadness that this film is quite unique. Certainly the first, and possibly the only animated film that might be classified in the pinku genre. But even though the film is supposedly animated, nothing seems to be moving at first. You instead see a series of elegantly designed still drawings depicting a harmonious wedding find out more...