Soundtrack: Claudio Monteverdi

Direction João César Monteiro

Cast Cláudia Teixeira · João César Monteiro · Manuela de Freitas · Raquel Ascensão

Plot João de Deus is the manager of an ice-cream shop owned by an ex-prostitute, Paraíso dos Gelados (Ice-Cream Paradise). Through a unmoved desire of perfection, he seeks, through cleansing and...

Direction Eugène Green

Cast Adrien Michaux · Natacha Régnier · Alexis Loret · Denis Podalydès

Plot Paris, 1979 - 1980. Pascal resolutely delays getting his philosophy thesis underway. Christine, his girlfriend, can't understand his casual attitude. Sarah is a singer in a baroque trio and dedicates...

Direction Jacques Rivette

Cast Bulle Ogier · Benoît Régent · Laurence Côte · Fejria Deliba

Plot Anna, Joyce, and Lucia are all students under the tutelage of Constance Dumas, a renowned instructor. Lucia moves in with three other girls in a small house outside of Paris....

Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay

Cast Simon Keenlyside · Kenneth Tharp · Zanaida Yanowsky

Direction John La Bouchardiere

Cast Matthew Brook · Anna Crookes · Mark Denham · Caryls Lane

Plot Six couples meet in a restaurant. Over the course of the meal and the following morning, they break up, leaving six abandoned lovers. Sung throughout to Claudio Monteverdi's compete fourth...

Direction Lino Pujía

Cast Marta Loazia · Susana Nicolai · Antonio Pujía · Lino Pujia

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Helene Friberg · Nina Harte · Lena Wennergren · Lisbeth Zachrisson

Plot The film shows four women moving in a crowded, closed room to the music of Monteverdi. They represent women living by passing on a role that is passed down to...