Topsy-Turvy

It's 1884, and Gilbert and Sullivan need a hit. Princess Ida is just not doing the sort of business they're used to. But Sullivan (Corduner) wants to write something more serious than comic operettas. And Gilbert (Broadbent) keeps trying to recycle stale story lines that his collaborator (and the critics) dismiss. Their solution to this problem--based on Gilbert's chance encounter with Japanese culture at a London exhibition--turns out to be The Mikado...

Eternity and a Day

Eternity And A Day is the spellbinding tale of one man's journey through his bittersweet past and fleeting present. Alexandre (Bruno Ganz), a celebrated Greek writer who is terminally ill, prepares to leave his seaside home forever. While packing, he finds a letter from his deceased wife, Anna. She writes about an enchanted summer day they spent together thirty years ago. From that point, Alexandre begins a strange journey through the present and the past. Along the way, he meets a young Albanian immigrant threatened by a child-smuggling ring and resolves to spend his final days taking the boy home. He realizes that while chasing the words of his poems and novels, he has allowed moments of true happiness to escape. These are the moments that he wants to bring back for a day…and for eternity.