La Bella Gente (The Beautiful People)

Here is the first trailer for La Bella Gente or Beautiful People directed by Ivano De Matteo. The movie centers around a couple who pick up a young Ukrainian Prostitute on the side of the road and they take the girl home and try and try to re-habilitate her. Things go pearshaped whe the couples son arrives home and he becomes fatuiated with her. Things look like its going to be a big happy ending but looking deep into the movie its more a question of lifes morality and trying to do good and the price they pay in trying.
This is De Matteo's debut movie and like many good new movies its doing its rounds in the festivals network. The trailer howver doesnt give much of the story away, anyway enjoy....

Jessica Hausner's Lourdes trailer

One great thing I like about Film Festivals is the fact there is many movies that make the premiere and sometimes only appearance in that particular country. Lourdes seems to be one of those movies that seems to float around the world's main festivals and rarely see's a film run in a cinema apart from the movies origin.

Lourdes is a low key drama with some comedy moments about Christine (Sylvie Testud) a wheelchair bound woman  who goes to Lourdes, France on a pilgramage. She's not really looking for a cure but more company and friendship to cure her of her isolation.

Some people may find the movie hard to understand due to the deepness and special bond Lourdes has for many people worldwide but director/wroter Jessica Hausner
does seem to find the right balancefor the movie by not overstepping the mark, just have to look at the accolades the movie has picked up in the festivals.



Lourdes Trailer

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ISLAND OF VAMPIRES (HIGANJIMA) Trailer

Oh we love our manga comics and Animes at Cinehouse UK and I was chuffed to see this one popped online, the trailer for Higanjima (Island of Vampires).
This movie is an adaptation of the popular Japanese comic book of the same name which centres around a student Saki who goes searching for his brother who has mysteriously dissappeared and her search leads to the mysterios island of Higanjima with a village populated with vampires.
When you watch the trailer you've got to laugh at some of the makeup but it does make up with the scary(ish) vampires but awesome trailer. Manga is pure fantasy with a lots of over the tops items in it, but that makes me want to see more and more and did I say more?
Warner Bros is releasing this in Japan, Hands up if this does really well in its native country will we see it he? or at least a bad waterdown Hollywood (F)muckup?? My arm is getting sore, watch the trailer.......

Higanjima is an eerie island occupied by vampires, from where none has ever come back alive. When teenager Akira hears that his missing brother has been seen in the island, he decides to investigate with several friends - IMDB.