Lisa Bergmayr

An aged art connoisseur (Beaumont) and his young female neighbour (Coles), who has a job posing naked in a club, meet and exist in fantasy and reality. Although this raises certain much-discussed questions about the nature of representation, and about the construction of narrative and daydreams in films, 'Phoelix' tends to treat these as just pretty and pertinent issues, opting instead for a mannered concentration on detail.

In a small town in occupied France in 1941, the German officer, Werner Von Ebrennac is billeted in the house of the uncle and his niece. The uncle and niece refuse to speak to him, but each evening the officer warms himself by the fire and talks of his country, his music, and his idealistic views of the relationship between France and Germany.

Créée par John Cleese, l'un des membres de la célèbre troupe des Monty Python, cette série met en scène Basil Fawlty, propriétaire irascible d'un hôtel à Torquay (Royaume-Uni), dominé par son épouse Sybil qui passe son temps au téléphone. Ils sont assistés de Polly, l'indispensable et très sensée femme de chambre, et de Manuel, l'homme à tout faire mexicain (espagnol dans la version originale), souffre-douleur de Basil.