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Nathan is a young artist traveling across Europe in search of the emotional fire that has been missing from his work. He's been deemed by his mentors and critics to be technically skillful but uninspired - criticisms he fears to be true. On a Paris street, he witnesses the volatile breakup of a young French woman and her beau. Nathan pursues a meeting with the woman, and it very quickly becomes evident that her provocative charisma and scathing beauty just may conjure the electricity he has been seeking.

Eigentlich wollte Johnny seine Vergangenheit weit hinter sich lassen - zu schmerzhaft sind die Erinnerungen an die Ereignisse zwanzig Jahre zuvor. Damals fand seine Kindheit ein drastisches Ende, als sein gewalttätiger Vater die Familie verließ. Heute lebt Johnny mit Frau und Tochter in einer anderen Stadt und hat ein neues Leben begonnen - doch seine traumatische Kindheit lässt ihn nicht los. Überraschend wird er von seinem entfremdeten Bruder Johan kontaktiert, der ihn bittet, noch einmal in seine alte Heimat zurückzukehren.

The Warmest December is the incredibly moving story of one Brooklyn family and the alcoholism that determined years of their lives. Narrated by Kenzie Lowe, a young woman reminiscent of Jamaica Kincaid's Annie John, as she visits her dying father and finds that choices she once thought beyond her control are very much hers to make.

Arthur Miller’s deeply moving drama reunites two long estranged middle-aged brothers. Nostalgia and recrimination erupt as they sell off an attic full of furniture, their last link to a family and a world that no longer exists. This 1968 classic is a wrenching saga of plaintive gestures and missed opportunities. A co-production with the BBC.