Scatter my Ashes at Bergdorf's
It's the
most mythic of all American emporiums - and the scene of many an ultimate
fashion fantasy. Now audiences get a rarified chance to peek behind the
backroom doors and into the reality of the fascinating inner workings and
fabulous untold stories from Bergdorf Goodman's iconic history in Scatter My
Ashes at Bergdorf's.
A murder in
1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg,
Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
The Patience Stone
Somewhere,
in Afghanistan or elsewhere, in a country torn apart by a war... A young woman
in her thirties watches over her older husband in a decrepit room. He is
reduced to the state of a vegetable because of a bullet in the neck. Not only
is he abandoned by his companions of the Jihad, but also by his brothers. One
day, the woman decides to tell the truth to him about her feelings about their
relationship to her silent husband. She talks about her childhood, her
suffering, her frustrations, her loneliness, her dreams, her desires... She
says things she could never have done before, even though they have been
married for the past 10 years. Therefore, this paralyzed man unconsciously
becomes syngue sabour, a magic stone which, according to Persian mythology,
when placed in front of a person shields her from unhappiness, suffering, pains
and miseries. In this wait for her husband to come back to life, the woman
struggles to survive and live. She finds refuge in her aunt's place, who is...
Homefront
A former
DEA agent moves his family to a quiet town, where he soon tangles with a local
meth druglord.
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