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The Song of Styrene
A film by Alain Resnais
| The Song of Styrene is the perfect example of how to turn a commissioned industrial film into a lyrical, satirical film masterpiece. When the young Alain Resnais was asked by the Péchiney plastics giant to make a short documentary on polystyrene, “that noble, entirely man-made matter,” Resnais sensed a rapport between Alexandrine verse and CinemaScope. With text by Raymond Queneau and music by Pierre Barbaud, The Song of Styrene is a beautiful surrealist film. |
Maborosi
A film by Hirokazu Koreeda
| Haunted by the mysterious loss of her grandmother many years ago, beautiful young mother Yumiko (Makiko Esumi) struggles to come to terms with the sudden loss of her husband. Yumiko remarries and with her young son moves to her new husband’s home in a remote village on the wild, untamed Sea of Japan. There, she is haunted by the past, but with time and the natural wonders around her, she awakens to find love, understanding, and a sense of peace. |
Rocco and His Brothers
A film by Luchino Visconti
| Looking for opportunity, five brothers move north with their mother to Milan. There, Simone and Rocco find fame, in the boxing ring, and love, in the same woman—Nadia. Jealousy mounts, blood is shed, and a striving family faces self-destruction in this incisive, sensuous, emotionally bruising masterwork from director Luchino Visconti (The Leopard, Senso). |
| Two films by Philippe Garrel |
| OVID SVOD Exclusive! The Salt of Tears |
OVID SVOD Exclusive!
Jealousy
OVID’s April Lineup!
OVID in April includes Man Ray and Picasso, three new films for Earth Day, two by Feng Xiaogang, a classic French noir, and much more!
