07 Sep 2014
Cake
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Sophisticated Acquaintance
Klaus Mann had a short life...and a long death.
Mixing elements of narrative, experimental, pseudo-documentary and essayist cinema, Sophisticated Acquaintance tells the story of a tormented individual whose short life and long death were affected by a great many factors. Klaus Mann (John Gross), a present-day Philadelphia avatar of the real-life European author of Mephisto, lives in the shadow of his father, the eminent intellectual, novelist and Nobel Laureate Thomas Mann (Ernst Hohmann). When Klaus pens a controversial essay on "revolutionary suicide" and then acts on it, in protest of the world's selfishness, a group of his contemporaries speak up in filmed interviews about what led him down that path. It is a film about the creative process, the tragic depiction of a strained father-son relationship and, most of all, it is a film about individuality.
Top Billed Cast
John Gross Klaus Mann
Katya Quinn-Judge Gia
Ernst Hohmann Thomas Mann
Glenn Walsh Bruce Jummaquin
William Cully Allen Malcontent
Brooke Somers Girl on Bus
Kris Caltagirone Andrew
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