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- Follows Marieke Vervoot, a champion athlete suffering from reflex sympathetic dystrophy. The pain and incurability of this degenerative condition prompted Marieke to opt for euthanasia - a legal option for end-of-life care in Belgium.
- Published in Paris in 1954, The Story of O was an immediate bestseller and literary scandal: an elegantly written S&M fantasy that had all the hallmarks of being an autobiographical account by the pseudonymous Pauline Réage. In 1994 Dominique Aury, a mild-mannered, dowdy editor for France's prestigious Gallimard press, revealed her authorship. Pola Rapaport explores Aury's inspiration, recreating the world of '50s literary Paris and setting it against dramatic sequences that bring the infamous book to life. The author and various French intellectuals expound on the thorny relationship between sexuality and power, submission and freedom, liberation and non-being. Even today, The Story of O mystifies in its power and confounds in its contradictions.
- A look backwards, using contemporary interviews and archival footage, at "Hair" the musical, a theatrical and cultural phenomenon in the 1960s and 1970s. The documentary is arranged, loosely, around themes: the context of its creation, friendships among its creators, rehearsals, media coverage, race, sex, politics, backlash, several deaths, drug use leading to dissolution, and an assessment of the play's importance. The commentary comes from a dozen people looking back: creators, producers, actors, and directors of the play and film.
- A trip along the seamy edges of New York City and a voyage through the consciousness of the mad beat poet Alan Granville. "Broken Meat" captures Alan's New York, stripped of its glittering surface: a strange, deserted place.
- The director's mother receives a letter from Romania. "I'm looking for the trace of Dr. Ionel Florian Rapaport family." The director travels to Romania and France and learns of her father's life prior to his meeting her mother.
- A photographer, a Swedish author and a filmmaker experience a moment of self-awareness on an Italian island.