Author Archive: Retro

Documentary-like look at the young sun-king. English subtitles. COLOR. Dir. Roberto Rossellini.

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decided to meet then for the week end, but the Germans are already occupying the village.

A couple’s life unravels after a mysterious visitor arrives.

Baron von Weser keeps a menagerie of carnivorous plants, but takes great care of one particular specimen.

A woman and her boyfriend are terrorized by sadistic thugs.

Three friends open the first brothel for women. Its success will lead them on the paths of fortune and glory. But some politicians are concerned by the situation.

Following a row with her fiancé Maurizio, Manuela breaks off with him and decides to go to a Mediterranean island where her friend Eleonora now lives a solitary life. The friendship between the two girls gradually turns into sexual attraction and they become lovers. When Maurizio lands on the island with a view to reconquering Manuela, his fiancée long hesitates between Eleonora and him. When she eventually decides to follow Maurizio Eleonora reacts violently…