FRANCISCA [DVD] But Todd and Madeleine

But Todd and Madeleine

Black Mother channels rebellion and reverence into a deeply personal ode informed by Jamaica’s turbulent history but existing in the urgent present

One emerges from them shaken

As Kate investigates Chubbuck’s story (long rumored to be the inspiration for the classic Hollywood film NETWORK)

FRANCISCA [DVD] But Todd and MadeleineA portrait of an obsessive love affair, Manoel de Oliveiras Francisca is based on a novel by Agustina Bessa Lus, whose work hed later adapt twice more. The books re telling of a troubled passage in real life author Camilo Castelo Branco life his friend Jos Augusto embarked on a perverse game of marital cat and mouse with Francisca, the woman the novelist loved led Oliveira to new levels of stylistic and formal imagination. (It helped that his wife, a