Polish filmmaker Aga Woszczyńska – together with co-writer Piotr Litwin – started to work on the script of her first feature film “Silent Land” in 2016, and notes that since then, her film – which centers on the world’s response to migrants – has sadly become even more timely.
Set in Italy, the slow-burning drama sees a couple whose summer holiday goes terribly wrong when Rahim (Ibrahim Keshk), an illegal immigrant hired to fix the pool in the house they paid for, suddenly dies. But Woszczyńska views her film as a humanistic rather than a political statement.
“I don’t want to blame just Italy, but the whole of Europe. The whole world, which stays silent,” she tells Variety.
“When Afghanistan desperately needs our help, we are closing our eyes and our borders – just like [my characters] Adam and Anna. What is currently happening, the whole situation on the Polish-Belarusian border, it’s something worse than barbarism,...
Set in Italy, the slow-burning drama sees a couple whose summer holiday goes terribly wrong when Rahim (Ibrahim Keshk), an illegal immigrant hired to fix the pool in the house they paid for, suddenly dies. But Woszczyńska views her film as a humanistic rather than a political statement.
“I don’t want to blame just Italy, but the whole of Europe. The whole world, which stays silent,” she tells Variety.
“When Afghanistan desperately needs our help, we are closing our eyes and our borders – just like [my characters] Adam and Anna. What is currently happening, the whole situation on the Polish-Belarusian border, it’s something worse than barbarism,...
- 9/22/2021
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
In the realm of failed art exists a select category of cinema so terribly conceived those deserving of its distinction are worthy of timeless praise. While there are generally celebrated and beloved camp classics, one obscure behemoth of softcore exploitative Eurotrash is Jean-Marie Pallardy’s 1984 gem White Fire.
Filmed in Istanbul and set, for unknown reasons in a futuristic Fascistic Turkey, diamond smugglers, plastic surgery, switched identities, a gigantic radioactive diamond, a lesbian utopia and Fred Williamson are all lavish distractions for a disturbing incest narrative all set to an addictive vintage title track from the band Limelight.
Two children who witnessed their parents murdered in front of their eyes become jewel thieves twenty years later in Istanbul while under the tutelage of their savior, Sam (Jess Hahn).…...
Filmed in Istanbul and set, for unknown reasons in a futuristic Fascistic Turkey, diamond smugglers, plastic surgery, switched identities, a gigantic radioactive diamond, a lesbian utopia and Fred Williamson are all lavish distractions for a disturbing incest narrative all set to an addictive vintage title track from the band Limelight.
Two children who witnessed their parents murdered in front of their eyes become jewel thieves twenty years later in Istanbul while under the tutelage of their savior, Sam (Jess Hahn).…...
- 8/25/2020
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
We're back with another edition of Horror Highlights! In today's installment, watch the short film The Mother of Beauty, check out the new red band trailer for Becky, and find out what's coming to the Arrow Video Channel:
The Mother Of Beauty Short Film: "In ‘The Mother of Beauty’ a single mother-to-be lives in isolation on the edge of the wilderness. She makes a living through her work with vulture culture: using the remains of dead animals to create art and memorialize the lives that once were. As she attempts to overcome the struggles of parenthood, the forces of life and death pull her in opposing directions, and she must find a way to reconcile the two before they tear her apart."
Director: Nick Meunier
Producer: J.W. Cole
Co-producer & Writer: Lonnie Nadler
Starring: Tristan Risk
Director Of Photography: Steven Hayes
Production Design: Rob Warren
Editor: Adam MacKay
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Becky Red Band Trailer: "Spunky and rebellious,...
The Mother Of Beauty Short Film: "In ‘The Mother of Beauty’ a single mother-to-be lives in isolation on the edge of the wilderness. She makes a living through her work with vulture culture: using the remains of dead animals to create art and memorialize the lives that once were. As she attempts to overcome the struggles of parenthood, the forces of life and death pull her in opposing directions, and she must find a way to reconcile the two before they tear her apart."
Director: Nick Meunier
Producer: J.W. Cole
Co-producer & Writer: Lonnie Nadler
Starring: Tristan Risk
Director Of Photography: Steven Hayes
Production Design: Rob Warren
Editor: Adam MacKay
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Becky Red Band Trailer: "Spunky and rebellious,...
- 6/3/2020
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Stars: Robert Ginty, Fred Williamson, Belinda Mayne, Jess Hahn, Mirella Banti, Diana Goodman, Gordon Mitchell | Written and Directed by Jean-Marie Pallardy
White Fire, also known as Vivre Pour Survivre (the on-screen title of this new Arrow Video Blu-ray release) is a 1984 action film made in Turkey, by a French man, and features two superstars of exploitation cinema: Fred Williamson and Robert Ginty (The Exterminator). If that’s not a recipe for success I don’t know what is!
White Fire tells the story of brother and sister Bo (Ginty) and Inga (Belinda Mayne), two orphans turned jewel thieves who target the legendary ‘White Fire’ diamond — a priceless rock so hot it actually burns those who try to lay their hands on it! When tragedy strikes, Bo undertakes an outrageous plan involving plastic surgery and explosives to infiltrate the mine where the diamond awaits. Bo’s plan hits an unexpected snag...
White Fire, also known as Vivre Pour Survivre (the on-screen title of this new Arrow Video Blu-ray release) is a 1984 action film made in Turkey, by a French man, and features two superstars of exploitation cinema: Fred Williamson and Robert Ginty (The Exterminator). If that’s not a recipe for success I don’t know what is!
White Fire tells the story of brother and sister Bo (Ginty) and Inga (Belinda Mayne), two orphans turned jewel thieves who target the legendary ‘White Fire’ diamond — a priceless rock so hot it actually burns those who try to lay their hands on it! When tragedy strikes, Bo undertakes an outrageous plan involving plastic surgery and explosives to infiltrate the mine where the diamond awaits. Bo’s plan hits an unexpected snag...
- 5/29/2020
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Out May 26th on Blu-ray from Arrow Video is White Fire, a French-American-Italian-Turkish production directed by male model turned softcore porn director turned exploitation filmmaker Jean-Marie Pallardy. And it’s a film that very much represents the director’s unique career timeline. White Fire is the story of a pair of siblings working in a mine shaft that stumble upon […]...
- 5/15/2020
- by Chris Coffel
- bloody-disgusting.com
New from Arrow Video Us and Arrow Academy Us Blood Tide [Blu-ray] (5/26) White Fire [Blu-ray] (5/26) The Woman [Blu-ray] (5/26) Solid Metal Nightmares: The Films Of Shinya Tsukamoto [Blu-ray Box Set] (5/26) via Mvd Entertainment Group Greek Creatures, Sundance Controversies, Jewel Thieves, and Metal Nightmares Headline Arrow’s May Lineup! Arrow Video continues to provide home video connoisseurs with exactly …
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- 4/29/2020
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
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