Past Perfect / 1996

In this Seattle-set police thriller, a police detective tries to bring a band of adolescent arms dealers to justice. He manages to capture one, but he is under-age and cannot be prosecuted as an adult. Meanwhile someone is quietly slaughtering the youth's gang mates, leaving the police detective to try to save him from the same fate.

Past Perfect / 2002

Strangers meet on a cross-Canada flight.

Past Perfect / 2002

“Past Perfect” is a spirited meditation on the elusiveness and inaccessibility of (Jewish) history as conveyed through sightseeing tours of “Jewish” Poland, a grandmother’s recollection of life in America during War II, and memoir-like “last moments” of a great aunt believed to have died in Treblinka. Shot almost entirely in contemporary Poland, “Past Perfect” lyrically portrays the relentless yet ultimately futile attempt to resuscitate a history literally gone up in smoke.

Past Perfect / 2019

Many cities or countries have a distinct malaise. They are places that could be Portugal, so sunk in a painful longing of the past, and where each tension of the present is only the tip of an iceberg that is explained in successive retreats that can go straight until origin of the species, at least. This feeling common to many latitudes is often presented as a diagnosis, a denial of a painful present as opposed to the desire to return to a glorious past.

PAST:PERFECT / 2003

Past Present Perfect? / 2019

In high school, Shantal (2003) experienced the pangs of first love after she met Sir Daniel, her Filipino teacher. Fast forward to the present, Shantal (2018) now pursuing a career in writing, gets the biggest surprise of her life as she crosses paths with Sir Daniel once again in their high school reunion. Has the time already come for Shantal’s...

Present Tense, Past Perfect / 1995

Richard Dreyfuss-directed short film.

Passato prossimo / 20036.219 voti

Claudia decide di vendere la villa di famiglia. Prima di procedere all'atto di vendita, riunisce tutti i suoi amici, per riflettere sul passato e sul futuro.

future past perfect Pt. 3 (U_08-1) /

a quiet autumn night in tokyo. a man stops his car at a shop front with a number of vending machines to get a last drink of tea on his way home. he inserts a coin, but instead of the usual procedure, the machine starts performing its own peculiar performance...

Safe Condition: Document in the Past Perfect / 1994

Frames 20th-Century ideologies and dreams of liberation, using found footage. The film presents an account of the period between 1932-1985, juxtaposing two different films in a montage format. One, 18mm home footage of an unknown Danish family, taken before and after WW2. A deadpan camera registers happy holiday moments, the Berlin Olympics (1936), and the World Exhibition in Paris (1937). Secondly, and with the same lack of involvement, we see the liberation of Denmark in May 1945. The second film is a first generation erotic movie, shot in 1972, showing a student's party developing into carnality, reflecting the liberating promises of this newly legalized pornography. The entire montage is accompanied by and interview with Charles Manson, who projects his messianic views from his prison cell. Through its anti-dramatic slide from normality to perversion, the film implicitly challenges the 20th-Century welfare state's promise of freedom to its citizens.

The Resident / 20115.848 voti

Ogni anno, tre milioni di donne single si trasferiscono in un appartamento in America per la prima volta. Non sanno chi viveva in quella casa prima di loro, non conoscono i loro proprietari, e non si preoccupano di cambiare le serrature. Questa è la storia di una di queste donne... Dopo essersi separata dal marito la giovane e bella dottoressa Juliet comincia una nuova vita a Brooklyn. Il suo incredibile e spazioso loft sembra troppo bello per essere vero, e quando degli eventi misteriosi cominciano a farle credere di non essere sola Juliet scopre l'impensabile ... qualcuno la sta guardando. Misteriosi eventi le fanno sospettare di non essere sola nella sua casa e presto le sue paure diventano fin troppo reali. In una rivelazione agghiacciante, scopre che il giovane e affascinante padrone di casa, Max, ha sviluppato verso di lei un ossessione pericolosa. Un terrificante gioco del gatto col topo segue mentre Juliet combatte per liberarsi dalle intenzioni sinistre di Max.