Jean Cocteau
Kvinner på randen av nervøst sammenbrudd
En kvinnes elsker forlater henne og hun prøver å få tak i ham for å finne ut hvorfor han stakk av. Hun konfronterer hans kone og sønn, som ikke vet noe. Samtidig er hennes venninne redd for at politiet leter etter henne.
Stravinsky: Once at a Border
Denne dokumentaren av den kritikerroste filmskaperen Tony Palmer tar for seg den fremragende komponisten Igor Stravinskys liv og virke.
En dikters blod
I den første filmen i Jean Cocteaus Orfeus-trilogi blir en poet fanget i en drømmelignende tilstand hvor han møter farene forbundet med den kunstneriske prosessen.
Women On the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Creating "one of the jauntiest of all war-of-the-sexes comedies" (Pauline Kael), Pedro Almodóvar, Spain's premiere writer-director, creates an off-kilter universe of madness, mayhem and pure fun. High atop one of Spain's poshest penthouses, three women have come to the end of their mental ropes. Super-sexy Pepa (Carmen Maura) is forever teetering around atop her skyscraper spikes as she obsesses over Iván (Fernando Guillén), the lover who just jilted her over the answering machine! Her neurotic best friend Candela (María Barranco) is seeking refuge at Pepa's place because she recently realized her lover is a Shiite terrorist. And Iván's ex-wife Lucía (Julieta Serrano) was just released from a 20-year stint in a mental institution. They're all mighty mad -- in fact, they're on the verge of a nervous breakdown and one of them is about to commit murder unless the other half-crazed femmes fatales can stop her!