Fallen Heroes (2007)

A psychologically damaged youth decides to kill his parents.
28 March 2008 (Italy)

'R Xmas (2001)

This is one of Ferrara’s finest films: mature, restrained, utterly believable. It contains no simplified stereotypes – the drug-dealers in it are not necessarily reprehensible louts and thugs – no cliches, no spectacular car chases, no blood and brains spattering the walls… but neither does real life. And real life, or an awfully damned good facsimile thereof, is what we get in R-Xmas. Above all, we get award-quality performances from two hitherto actors of tremendous ability, Drea de Matteo and Lillo Brancato, and a warm, empathetic portrayal of New York’s Dominican community. Ice-T is superb as a brutal and menacing kidnapper. This film poses all kinds of difficult questions: are wealthy drug-dealers really that different from other successful businessmen? How do they bring up their children in an environment of relative normalcy? How does a man react when he is brutalized by a gang of thugs and – since this is not a facile Hollywood fantasy – the possibility of going back and blowing them all away with a magnum simpy does not exist?

Ferrara’s latest film is a more believable “Godfather” for the 21st century. In the same time it’s a Christmas tale, a little different from the usual stuff, another chapter in his saga of catholic dispair.

“In the center of the narrative — everyday life in an American hell — a couple of drug dealers. Christmas is coming, the time is not easy to escape from the being of sin, but also to think about the atonement.

At one point the heroes realize the grim absurdity of his life, and before them begins to loom the possibility of an alternative path — a quiet family life, raising children… But the miracle does not happen, life goes on in its usual ruthless scenario.”
26 December 2001 (France)

God.com (1998)

Officer Chan (Louis Koo) investigates an apparent group suicide, in Kowloon, and uncovers a cult that goes by the name of The Church of the True God, led by a chap who calls himself Pope (Andrew Lin). The flatmate of one of the cult’s victims, Blonde Ying (Grace Lam), sneaks into the cult on police suggestion to dig up the truth; spiritualist copper Chiu (Anthony Wong) helps solve the case.
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The Amy Fisher Story (1993)

The true story of the Long Island teen who shoots and wounds the wife of a man she called her lover.

3 January 1993
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Love Kills (1991)

In this television thriller, feeling rejected because her husband has been having an affair, beautiful fashion photographer, Rebecca, (Virginia Madsen) gets even by taking a lover: Jonathan Brinkman, a model whom she met during a photo shoot. After a night of sex, Brinkman tells her that her husband, a prominent criminal psychologist, has hired him, a former patient, to kill her. Brinkman also tells her that he has had a change of heart and will protect her. Rebecca’s husband has a different story. He denies that he hired Brinkman to kill her. Rather, he explains, Brinkman is a dangerous, border-line schizophrenic whose case he has documented in a best-selling book. One of them is lying. She must find out who is telling the truth. If she gets it wrong, it could be a fatal mistake.
13 November 1991

Lolita vib-zeme (1987)

“Lolita:Vibrator Torture” has to be one of the most repellent pinku films directed by the prolific Japanese director Hisayasu Sato.This notorious Nikkatsu pinker tells the story of a sadistic killer who lives in a squalid freight container and performs hideous acts upon young schoolgirls before bloodily murdering them and disposing of their corpses in an acid bath.Hisayasu Sato is often cited as a Japanese Cronenberg and “Lolita:Vibrator Torture” is no exception.The film contains a lot of unsettling visuals for example composites of black and white photos,pixelated close-ups of VHS screens or computer monitors.The soundtrack is truly outrageous and somewhat disorienting.The film relies more on gore and sexual sadism rather than sex and is as cold and nihilistic as they get.8 out of 10.

19 September 1987 (Japan)
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