angelos BRATIS

Fashion designer Angelos Bratis answers the big question "what should I watch tonight" by discussing with us his 5 favourite films. Who would be the American Isabelle Huppert? Fassbinder: toxic or genius? Is Kieslowski a cliché? A conversation on cinema, fashion, Chinese ideograms and cats.

In this true masterpiece of a film, made even more memorable by the collaboration between director Haneke and Isabelle Huppert, emotional detachment, the oppression of impulse and the painful realization of another's need play off each other, in an unforgettable artistic and revelatory event. — A middle-aged piano teacher works at a Vienna conservatory and lives with her cantankerous, elderly mother; her father resided in psychiatric asylums for years. The teacher is deeply solitary and her sexual oppression is expressed through sadomasochistic and voyeuristic behaviors, as well as self-harm. When a younger student expresses interest in her, the teacher consents, but the relationship soon goes to extremes. — Grand Prize of the Jury | Cannes Film Festival | 2001 Best Actress (Isabelle Huppert) | Cannes Film Festival | 2001 Best Actor (Benoît Magimel) | Cannes Film Festival | 2001

A moody journey full of tension, love and hate in constant succession, portrayed in absolute aesthetic freedom and a frenzied camera lens, in yet another stylistic marvel by Wong Kar Wai that touches upon the unpredictability of life. — A gay couple goes to Argentina on vacation. At some point in their trip they break up. Not having the necessary money to return home, one of them starts working as a doorman at a bar while staying in a small room. One day his ex-partner, who spends his nights out with various people, visits him injured and bloody. While taking care of him, he loses his job but manages to get another one as a dish-washer at a Chinese restaurant. There he meets a young man from Taipei who is traveling the world. — Best Director | Cannes Film Festival | 1997 Audience Award | Arizona International Film Festival | 1998 Best Actor | Hong Kong Film Awards | 1998

If you want to find out encyclopaedic details about R.W. Fassbinder's life, just google them. Now how these could be rendered in a film that is meant to resemble his life is a different question, one answered by Oskar Roehler's brave film, an authentic homage to the director's filmmaking. — When, in 1967, the 22year-old Rainer Werner Fassbinder takes charge of the Anti-Theatre stage in Munich, no one suspects that this insolent guy will become one of the most important post-war German filmmakers. His films premiere in some of the biggest film festivals in the world, and are either adored or loathed by the audience, the critics and other filmmakers. His rage as well as his deep desire for love, make him the most important and the most radical filmmaker, an enfant terrible.

The first part of the Trilogy of Colors is dedicated to freedom, dipped in a blue metaphysical light that bathes the face of Juliette Binoche. Structured as a redeeming and liberating path from mourning and introversion to creation and self-realization. — After the death of her husband and child in a car accident, Julie (Juliette Binoche) struggles trying to overcome the initial shock and decides to claim her freedom and start a new life. — Golden Lion | Venice Film Festival | 1993 Golden Osella | Venice Film Festival | 1993 OCIC Award | Venice Film Festival | 1993