Directing
Rome, 1532. Pope Clement VII has tasked the sculptor Benvenuto Cellini with creating a bronze statue of Perseus before the end of carnival. Seeking fame and fortune, the latter accepts the commission, even though his workshop is short on both time and metal. On top of that, Cellini is head over heels in love with Teresa, the daughter of the Pope’s treasurer, Balducci, who for his part is intent on marrying his daughter to Fieramosca, Cellini’s rival in love and art. When the young lovers’ attempt to elope fails, Cellini has no choice but to carry out his task successfully if he wants to avoid certain death… Alain Altinoglu is the ideal conductor for this richly coloured masterpiece, to be staged for the first time at La Monnaie. Director Thaddeus Strassberger is bound to enchant the audience with a colourful show worthy of the finest Carnival celebrations!
A collection of six contemporary stories exploring hidden passions, unspoken feelings and what it means to find yourself in the eyes of another.
Back in the 80s, Camp Pocumtuck was one of the strictest and most-religious summer camps ever known. It was forced to shut its doors when a young girl was struck by lightning. Before that, it was the site of a Native American massacre. And before that, several women were burned at the stake for being witches. Nowadays, Mia’s friends are not too keen on transforming this dilapidated summer camp into the wedding venue of her dreams. Mia’s wound a bit too tight and somewhat of a control freak. Her gay BFF has the hots for all the groomsmen and her maid of honor just wants good cellphone reception. Even worse, she accidentally sent an email invite to her annoying high school friend whom she hasn’t seen in years. But nothing will stop Mia from having a perfect wedding, not even when people begin disappearing in the night, and especially not when a spirit-possessed Teddy Ruxpin starts telling her to hide the bodies.
Daniel Bloom, a deeply conservative 15-year-old presidential hopeful who will do anything to escape his public high school to the elite boys boarding school of his dreams... until Bowes Academy seems to know more about his sexual orientation than he does.
Sarah and Lizzie live for their summers at Blackhawk Farm. This summer, Lizzie will be a counselor, while Sarah is a C.I.T.; this creates some tension. Everything changes when Sarah is told a secret that will change Lizzie's life forever.
When their apartment is mysteriously cleaned up after a party, four roommates are excited they might have a ghost maid, then someone is vacuumed to death.
Twice is a polyamorous love story exploring how a revolutionary family is made. Woman and Man begin as friends, become lovers, break up and finally create an authentic, non-monogamous life together. Woman is an American in Paris who loves more than one person at once; at the start of the story, she's honest with her lovers, but hides her polyamory from the outside world until she learns to come out. Man is an English expat who begins as a womanizer, lying to all the ladies in his life until he falls apart, faces his addictions and rebuilds his life around truth. Entirely told in voice-over from inside the two lead characters' minds, the film shows how the love story you tell yourself is the love story you live. While you can always change your life, you can never live the same moment twice.
Claire purchases an antique educational toy that reignites fond memories from childhood and lays bare the sorry state her life is now in.
