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A neo-noir thriller, "Human Capital" is the second film by Paolo Virzì that has just been added to the VOD.MDAG.PL catalogue. On this occasion we especially encourage you to also watch other feature fiction films available on our platorm. A botanical thriller, a desert version of Romeo and Juliet, the story of a famous painter, or a comedy hailed as a mix of "Thelma and Louise" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" - you will find it all on VOD.MDAG.PL! You can buy a single access to the films for 9.50 PLN or buy a pass for several films!
Human Capital, dir. Paolo Virzì
During a cold winter night, a cyclist is hit by a SUV and then abandoned to agonize in the frozen snow. The mysterious episode, on which the police will investigate, connects the events of the members of two families: the petty-bourgeois family of Ossola and the rich and venerated one of Bernaschi. Through a sophisticated narration divided into four chapters, adapted by an American noir novel, the film explores human and inhuman ambitions, generational conflicts and social splendour and misery of a North Italian province, ending with a mocking flavour epilogue that does not seem to fulfill anybody.
Little Joe, dir. Jessica Hausner
A botanical thriller? A dystopian horror film? A family drama? Social satire? Jessica Hausner's ("Lourdes") first English-language film is as unpredictable as she is. Alice, a single mother, is a dedicated senior plant breeder at a corporation engaged in developing new species. Against company policy, she takes one home as a gift for her teenage son and names it after him but soon starts fearing it.
EYE ON JULIET, dir. Kim Nguyen
Gordon (Joe Cole, known from the series "Peaky Blinders" and "Black Mirror") works for an American company protecting a pipeline located in the North African desert. Using a robot drone, he keeps a close eye on the area thousands of miles away from his Detroit office. One day a girl named Ayusha (Lina El Arabi) appears in the area patrolled by Gordon and starts to intrigue him. The boy decides to follow her with a drone and finds out that her family wants to force her to marry an older man. Ayusha is in love with another. The girl decides to run away, and Gordon decides to help her do so. This desert version of Romeo and Juliet draws Gordon in completely.
At Eternity's Gate, dir. Julian Schnabel
In the villages of Arles and Auvers-sur-Oise where he has retreated to escape the pressures of Paris, Vincent van Gogh (Willem Dafoe) is treated kindly by some and brutally by others. Madame Ginoux, the proprietor of the local restaurant takes pity on his poverty and gives him a ledger, which he fills with drawings. Others are afraid of his dark mood swings. His close friend fellow- artist Paul Gaugin finds him so overwhelming he slips away and his beloved brother and art dealer Theo is unwavering in his support, but never manages to sell a single painting of Vincent's.
Like crazy, dir. Paolo Virzì
Beatrice (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi) is a talkative manipulator who styles herself as a millionaire revolving in upper class circles. Donatella (Micaela Ramazzotti, privately Virzì's wife) is a sensitive introvert with a tattooed and fragile body who hides a dark secret about her past. In Paolo Virzì's comedy, these two patients of a "therapeutic center for women with mental problems" will be united by a friendship. One afternoon they decide to escape and seek happiness and love in the free world of "sane" people. This crossover between "Thelma and Louise" and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" was a sensation of the Cannes Film Festival, where the film was screened as part of the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs section. The film won statuettes of one of the most important Italian film awards Nastro d'argento (Silver Ribbon), awarded by critics and journalists, in five categories.
