Keep the Lights On

Synopsis


Keep the Lights On is shot with a grainy beauty that resonates with the texture of New York City, accentuated by disco beats and a mournful cello, both from musician Arthur Russell’s eclectic catalog. Director Ira Sachs’s fearlessly personal screenplay is anchored by Lindhardt, who embodies Erik’s isolation and vulnerability with a gentle presence. Harrowing and romantic, visceral and layered, Keep the Lights On is a film that looks at love and all of its manifestations, taking it to dark depths and bringing it back to a place of grace.

Director : Ira Sachs
Cast : Thure Lindhardt, Zachary Booth
Duration : 107 mins
Language : English & Danish (---)

Killing Them Softly

Synopsis


The film marks the second time director Andrew Dominik & Brad Pitt after "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford". The story is about three dumb guys who think they're smart rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse. Brad Pitts plays the professional hitman who is hired to make some order out of the mess. It's a microcosm of the larger story of economic crisis unfolding in America at the time.

Director : Andrew Dominik
Cast : Brad Pitt, Richard Jenkins, James Gandolfini
Duration : 97 mins
Language : English (Chinese Subtitles)

Jan Dara: The Beginning

Synopsis

The lifelong tragedy of Jan Dara (Mario Maurer) begins the moment he was born. The year is 1915, a mother dies giving birth to her son. The boy is Jan Dara, and his father believes that the child is the reason for the death of his dear wife.

He curses the boy and vows to punish him with utmost severity. The name Jan is given to the boy, a short form Jan Rai – or The Scum.

The dark and disturbing secret is that the House is a playground of sexual excess. The master of the house, Jan’s father, is a man obsessed with carnal pleasure.

Fornication is his sport and routine, he would perform sexual acts of different variety with any female in the house any time he wants.

Jan Dara grows up in the giddy atmosphere of erotic indulgence, and soon he begins to seek pleasure of his own.

And the situation gets more complicated when Wisnan brings another woman into the house: a graceful, progressive woman who was Wisnan’s former lover and who will soon become involved with young Jan in a psychologically and physically complex way.

Director : ML Bhandevanop Devakula
Cast : Mario Maurer, Chayapol Julian Pupart, Sakarach Rirkthamrong
Duration : 136 mins
Language : Thai (Chinese & English Subtitles)

I Have To Buy New Shoes

Synopsis


Photographer Sen is to accompany his younger sister Suzume on a sight-seeing trip to Paris, having been told that he is along for good luck, but not being given a reason. Once they arrive in Paris, however, Suzume suddenly announces she needs to be on her own, and abandons Sen.

Lost and unable to find his way back to their hotel, Sen wanders the streets of Paris. He drops his passport, and Aoi, a freelance writer living in the city, steps on it. She breaks a heel which Sen fixes with crazy glue, then gives him directions to the Japanese embassy and a business card.

Director : Eriko Kitagawa
Cast : Miho Nakayama, Osamu Mukai
Duration : 115 mins
Language : Japanese (Chinese & English Subtitles)

House at the End of the Street

Synopsis

Directed by Mark Tonderai (Hush), House at the End of the Street is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that is to Psycho what Disturbia was to Rear Window.

A mother (Elisabeth Shue - Piranha 3D) and daughter (Jennifer Lawrence - Winter’s Bone) move in to a new community and find themselves next door to a house with a terrible past. Years ago, in a notorious incident, a psychotic young girl murdered her parents. While the locals insist the girl vanished after the brutal murders, the new arrivals quickly discover the sinister house’s story is far from over... and the daughter may become part of its dark legacy.

Director : Mark Tonderai
Cast : Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot, Elizabeth Shue
Duration : 101 mins
Language : English (Chinese Subtitles)