The Idyll
Genres
Overview
A modern adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story about a man and a woman sharing an unexpected encounter on a train as it travels through a beautiful and surreal landscape.
Details
Budget
$0
Revenue
$0
Runtime
12 min
Release Date
2016-06-08
Status
Released
Original Language
English
Vote Count
5
Vote Average
4
Emma de Caunes
Woman
Dougray Scott
Man
8.0
Sweet
In the window of the house, where some say the sweetness dwells, is reflected, every night, a delicious story.
2011-01-10 | es
6.0
The Music of Regret
Simmons, best-known for her photographs of miniature rooms populated by dolls and of oversized objects—such as a house, birthday cake, and pistol—balanced on female legs, both human and fake, brings these characters to life in a three-act mini-musical. The film is inspired by three distinct periods of Simmons’s photographic work: vintage hand puppets, ventriloquist dummies and walking objects enact tales of ambition, disappointment, love, loss, and regret. Working with composer Michael Rohaytn ("Personal Velocity") and cameraman Ed Lachman ("The Virgin Suicides" and "Far From Heaven"), Simmons’s puppets come to life in miniature domestic scenes that echo real life.
2006-05-24 | en
5.2
Beautiful Dreamer
Facing a terminal disease, a mother uses space travel and relativity to stretch her last two years over the lifetime of her baby daughter, visiting for only one night every seven years. Mother and daughter must negotiate to build a relationship despite the longing and estrangement that marks the life moments they are able to share.
2016-06-10 | en
0.0
We Are Always Hiding
Trevor seeks a resolution amid a life filled with confusion and ennui.
2025-03-18 | en
8.0
Xie Xie, Ollie
In his efforts to connect with his Chinese heritage, a biracial man discovers challenges and complexities he may not have expected in James Michael Chiang’s remarkably deft blending of drama and comedy.
2023-09-12 | en
4.4
Infinito
Silence is absolute and time dilates as we lose ourselves in an unpredictable space among non-existent places.
2011-07-28 | pt
0.0
Hiatus
In his classroom a philosophy teacher opens the discussion on the place of religion in society. Out of his course he faces the realities of the street.
2018-01-01 | fr
0.0
Strangers
When aged-care facility workers find two residents in bed together, familial tensions rise.
2019-06-11 | en
0.0
A Snake Marked
After many years, a convict who spends his days sketching charcoal art in his prison cell receives a surprise visit from his estranged father, forcing him to contemplate his own existence.
2019-03-23 | en
7.0
To Thine Own Self Be True
An experimental study of nature through three stories and how we have destroyed it.
2023-11-23 | en
4.3
The First Emperor of China
This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China's vast territory and declared himself emperor in 221 B.C. During his reign, he introduced sweeping reforms, built a vast network of roads and connected the Great Wall of China. From the grandiose inner sanctum of Emperor Qin's royal palace, to fierce battles with feudal kings, this film re-creates the glory and the terror of the Qin Dynasty, including footage of Qin's life-sized terra cotta army, constructed 2,200 years ago for his tomb.
1989-01-01 | en
3.8
Bad Faith
A family spending their holiday at the Costa Brava. The older brother's belief system will be disrupted when an act of kindness results in a little tragedy. This will lead him into a routine where refusing to make decisions could lead to greater tragedies.
2019-03-15 | ca
6.2
Crash!
Short film produced by the BBC about JG Ballard's Crash. “The film was a product of the most experimental, darkest phase of Ballard’s career. It was an era of psychological blowback from the sudden, shocking death of his wife in 1964, an era that had produced the cut-up ‘condensed novels’ of Atrocity plus a series of strange collages and ‘advertisers’ announcements. After Freud’s exploration within the psyche it is now the outer world of reality which must be quantified and eroticised. Later there were further literary experiments, concrete poems and ‘impressionistic’ film reviews, and an aborted multimedia theatrical play based around car crashes. After that came an actual gallery exhibition of crashed cars, replete with strippers and the drunken destruction of the ‘exhibits’ by an enraged audience.” (from: http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.blogspot.de/2013/01/short-film-adaptation-of-jg-ballards.html)
1971-02-12 | en
0.0
Didn't Think I'd See You Here
Rory thinks there's a ghost haunting his shower and decides to investigate its origin. But when he goes to a party and meets a romantic interest, his spectral mystery begins to unravel.
2023-05-07 | en
6.0
Con Amor
In Santiago, Chile, a single mother is faced with a difficult decision - morality is pitted against vengeance, empathy versus family.
2016-05-30 | en
6.3
Aerolin
Sandy is a drama school graduate and has asthma. Tonight she will be performing at the theatre. Before that, she has to teach a yoga class, work as a clown and go to an audition. In this equation, she somehow has to try and fit in Spiros, her boyfriend.
2023-09-04 | el
5.5
The Mess He Made
A man spends 15 minutes waiting for the results of a Rapid HIV Test.
2017-03-11 | en
2.0
Lie
In 1968 Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys met a dynamic and passionate singer/songwriter and introduced him to Hollywood. The two set out to record that artist's first professional album. The album became known as LIE. In 1969 this artist achieved incredible fame, but not for his music. The artist's name was Charles Manson.
2009-09-27 | en
2.0
On the Path
A road in the middle of nowhere. A car. A bike. Two lonely people looking for the same thing. They meet.
2015-11-16 | es
4.7
Break Me
A young cage fighter must choose between his head and his heart after his father discovers the truth.
2019-03-02 | no