Minotauromachy
Genres
Overview
An imaginary insight into Pablo Picasso's creative mind and painted creatures and characters. We enter in his head and walk with him the intricate maze that was his imagination to find the creatures and stories that populated his psyche and came out when he painted a canvas. His imagination is presented as the myth of the maze and the Minotaur, and some of the characters in the piece are in Picasso's real paintings - his famous dove, the Minotaur, and the ladies of Avignon, among many others.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
10 min
Release Date
2004-10-20
Status
Released
Original Language
Spanish
Vote Count
7
Vote Average
5.7
0.0
Hisser
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2015-05-13 | en
7.0
Bobby Yeah
Bobby Yeah is a petty thug who lightens his miserable existence by brawling and stealing stuff. One day, he steals the favourite pet of some very dangerous individuals, and finds himself in deep trouble. He really should learn, but he just can't help it.
2011-07-04 | en
7.0
The Separation
The separation of conjoined twins and its extraordinary consequences.
2003-10-15 | en
4.9
Our Lady of the Sphere
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5.2
House
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5.1
I Live in the Woods
A woodsman runs amok.
2008-09-12 | en
5.6
The 'Teddy' Bears
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1907-03-02 | en
6.3
Labyrinth
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1963-12-31 | pl
7.2
Last Year's Snow Was Falling
Funny adventures of the clumsy fellow whom his wife dispatched to the forest to bring home a New Year tree...
1983-12-31 | ru
5.0
Hans Christian Andersen's The Emperor's New Clothes
Two con men convince a king that they have woven for him a suit made of magical cloth that only stupid or incompetent people are unable to see. Not wanting to seem dull, everyone pretends to admire the king's new clothes although he is completely naked.
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5.8
Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy
A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower from the box, which contains a fairy smoking a cigarette. Next, he leaves briefly while his smoking paraphenalia clears itself from the table and the flower reassembles itself into a cigar. He lights the cigar, then breaks a bottle containing the fairy, who interacts with him in various ways reeling from his cigar smoke, building a bonfire that he extinguishes, etc.
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6.4
Vincent
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8.0
Bride of Resistor
Mr. Resistor tries to catch himself a woman.
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5.9
Tord and Tord
One day Tord accidentally walks in to the apartment next to his own. Another person named Tord lives there, he has just moved in. Tord and Tord start to spend time with each other.
2010-01-29 | sv
7.5
Love Torn in a Dream
A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
2000-11-22 | fr
6.8
CHAINSAW MAID
A sexy maid equipped with a chainsaw is a family's only hope against hordes of the undead zombies.
2009-06-08 | ja
5.7
The Grasshopper and the Ant
An ant works to prepare for winter while a drunken grasshopper plays his violin and dances away his time. When the snow arrives, the grasshopper pleads with the ant for shelter and is turned away to die.
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6.4
The Lily of Belgium
When a young girl finds a beautiful dead lily in the woods, she asks her grandfather to tell her about it. The lily stands in splendour beside a stream, admired by the creatures of the woods. But an army of beetles, bent on conquering new territories, wants to cross the stream - and the lily is blocking their way. An unashamed allegory of the German rape of Belgium.
1915-10-10 | ru
7.5
The Apostle
A recently escaped convict seeks to recover a treasure he hid years ago in a small, secluded Galician village. However once there, he finds out that in the village there is an even worse sentence than the one he fled from.
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5.9
The Ghost of Slumber Mountain
In a dream Uncle Jack looks through a magic telescope owned by the ghost of a hermit and sees what life was like millions of years ago, including a battle between prehistoric monsters.
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