Norman Brisky Movies

Released directly on to video in the U.S., but exhibited on the festival circuit and in Europe, Plague is an adaptation of Albert Camus' novel and reteams filmmaker Luis Puenzo with actors Robert Duvall and William Hurt to tell the story of a South American city that must be cut off from the world following an outbreak of the bubonic plague. The key characters include a French tele-journalist, her cameraman and a fearless doctor. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

A young "ugly duckling" from Barcelona (Jeannine Mestre) has been divorced for four years when she decides to fly to New York and hunt down her ex-husband. Her trials and tribulations in the Big Apple's seedy hotels and subways all center on her search for the ex, though there is no apparent reason why she is now hunting him out. Eventually, she spots him while she is riding a tourist bus and with some effort and much self-pity, discovers where he lives through using the Hispanic Institute in Washington Heights. By the time the last day of her trip arrives, she follows him from his loft apartment without his knowledge, intent on achieving the objective of her trip before she has to return home. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Deeply layered with much symbolic and allegorical material, the generally non-narrative events in this film revolve around Ana (Ana Belen) a girl who has been diagnosed with a terminal case of cancer. In one scene, she is injured in a Madrid Public library when a police horse crashes through a plate glass window. The police have just been violently dealing with protestors who are objecting to the state's handling of the trials of six men accused of involvement in the death of a policeman. In another scene, a man claims he can cure her of cancer, but she must turn her mind over to him. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi