Dispositif 47 - The Second Death

May 26, 2010

0h 19m

★ 9.0

Overview

The concept includes a series of shorts titled "Dispositif + No + title". They all deal with subjects mixed in a unique and unusual presentation. It is an inventively surreal image and sound experience. It is Jean Cocteau for the twenty-first century.

Genres

Drama

Documentary

Production Companies

Sycomore Films

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Cast

Self (archive footage)

Karen Mulder

Self (archive footage)

Marie Laforêt

Self (archive footage)

Jeanne Moreau

Prime minister France

Lionel Jospin

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute, and becomes entangled in a love triangle. A mystery emerges involving two portraits and the sudden disappearance of the artist Sharaku. Helmed by Cannes-selected director Tatsuji Yamazaki, the film employs kabuki-inspired sequences and stylised sets.

6.0

The Plastic House

Sep 9, 2021

Constructing a solitary reality by imagining what life would be like after the passing of her parents, director Allison Chhorn's intricate docu-fiction chronicles her own process carrying on work in the family's titular 'plastic house'.

7.2

Uncut Gems

Aug 30, 2019

A charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime. Howard must perform a precarious high-wire act, balancing business, family, and encroaching adversaries on all sides in his relentless pursuit of the ultimate win.

3.7

The Man in the Trunk

Nov 29, 2019

On an otherwise quiet night there is a startling knock at the door. Andrew Tucker answers the door to find an old friend whom he hasn't seen in years. The disheveled and absent friend comes to him with one request: "I need you to come with me but, I can't tell you where we're going." Andrew takes a chance but learns that every answer brings more questions. Nothing good ever comes knocking after midnight and Andrew's nightmare asks how far you would go to help a friend.

8.1

Satantango

Feb 8, 1994

Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.

2.0

A Rogue in Londinium

Mar 22, 2021

Richard Rhys, a painter in Victorian London, is the prime suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders. In a chance encounter he meets a wealthy reformer and socialite, Victoria Thornton, married to the richest man in England. Their passionate love affair results in a pregnancy and possible scandal and ruin. It is a story of redemption and true love.

6.8

Goodbye, Dragon Inn

Dec 12, 2003

On a dark and rainy night, a historic and regal Taipei cinema sees its final film: 1967 martial arts feature "Dragon Inn".

0.0

Tochka

Oct 24, 2009

A woman and a man meet on an abandoned tochka along the seashore in Hokkaido, Japan.

0.0

Regular

Dec 31, 2024

A teen wanders through the secret, fleeting moments of the night toward adulthood. The angst and raw emotion of the night's delicate connections linger as he crosses paths with a mysterious girl.

1.0

Living With an Idiot

Sep 17, 1993

The main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick someone out, after bribing the boss of the institution, with two bottles of vodka. He chooses Vova, at first sight a silly man, and takes him home. His wife is at first not very happy with this choice. Vova says and does nothing at all. Then he becomes an aggressive man, who terrorises the house and bashes everything to pieces. After she is raped by Vova, the wife gets sexually dependant on the Idiot. Vova isn't interested anymore, when she gets pregnant and doesn't keep the baby. The idiot goes now to the intellectual for his sexual needs. The wife can't take this anymore and forces her man to take a choice: Vova out, or she will go.

0.0

Death is a Woman

Apr 5, 2023

The personification of Death's love for a lonely man is challenged when he falls for a lively woman.

0.0

A Haunting of Past Ink

Apr 21, 2023

A person receives old entries from their diary, unsure of who is sending them. They eventually arrive at a moment of transcendence.

5.0

Homeless

Jan 1, 2000

A homeless woman, improbably well-groomed and (as seen naked to the waist as she changes from one shabby sweater to another) well-toned, spends from dawn till night pushing her cart around a seaside California city. Flashbacks show that she was once an exotic dancer and illustrate the point that, under the over-sized and dirty clothing that makes her "invisible", she is still the same attractive woman.

Dispositif 47 - The Second Death

Overview

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