Dreams and Desires: Family Ties

Dreams and Desires: Family Ties 2006

6.70

Beryl acquires a new Digi Video camera and becomes obsessed with the art of filmmaking, using it to articulate her desires, dreams and thoughts in a video diary. As “cineaste par excellence” she agrees to film her friend’s wedding, seizing the opportunity to “strut her stuff filmically” with disastrous and often hilarious results.

2006

Girls Night Out

Girls Night Out 1988

5.00

When a housewife's girlfriends take her to a male strip club for her birthday, she brings back more than memories.

1988

Affairs of the Art

Affairs of the Art 2021

6.33

Look out: Beryl's back. With Affairs of the Art, British animator Joanna Quinn recounts another gloriously unhinged chapter in the adventures of Beryl, the comic everywoman she unleashed upon the world with her debut film, Girls' Night Out, which took home three major awards from Annecy in 1987.

2021

Body Beautiful

Body Beautiful 1991

6.00

A heavyset woman who keeps being harassed by her aerobics instructor and her attempts to get even with him on a Body Beautiful contest.

1991

Wife of Bath

Wife of Bath 1998

1

Based on Geoffrey Chaucer’s classic poetry. For attacking a young woman, an arrogant knight of King Arthur’s court is sentenced to death if he cannot answer the question “what do women most desire?” He travels far and wide with no success until he meets an old woman who promises him the answer, but at a price.

1998

Elles

Elles 1992

6.50

Two of the models of Toulouse Lautrec take a happy break from their posing.

1992