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Synopsis: A young writer is interrogated by a sadistic secret policeman. She is accused of embedding political messages in her children's stories. The entire movie takes place in one room, with only the two actors. The movie is set in an unidentified, modern police state.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Radha Bharadwaj
Production: Media Home Entertainment
  1 win & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
44%
R
Year:
1991
89 min
1,260 Views


- None of your business.

It does not.

See?

It is easier

if you answer my questions.

Are you in good health?

Any problem

I should know?

Is he medicated?

Answer my questions

be good girl ...

and promise

not do it again.

Do not tell me it

good girl.

I keep waiting for the artist

talk about their work.

About a girl whose mother

locked in a closet.

The girl begins to fantasize

the clothes are his friends.

There are wonderful festivals

in the closet ...

with the girl and her friends ...

and becomes a stream

in a meadow ...

wild strawberries

and beautiful flowers.

When her mother

returns from work ...

the rooster sympathetic

which is actually a scarf ...

tells the girl and her friends

cackling.

The clothes become

to their perches ...

and the girl falls silent

waiting to take her mother.

It is a curious story.

Unlike''''The Flying Cow

and''The green-winged cat.''

"It was a lonely child?

- Did not he have siblings?

- No, just my mother and me.

But his mother

case not long ago.

Well, it was not his intention,

worked hard ...

and had literary gatherings

Sundays.

Still feel alone

Right?

I do not trust the lonely people.

The eternal spectator

of life.

Watching.

Waiting.

- "She was afraid her mother?

- No.

- We got along.

- Well, yes.

Was with her

when he died last year.

- What?

- The accused them of not noticing.

I did what I asked.

All that I could.

I've been for you

you never were there for me.

You never noticed.

Ran out of the hospital.

- His mother died that night.

- I have been watching.

Since last year,

perhaps earlier. Why?

Why have recorded

my conversations?

I brought by mistake.

It is part of a plan.

We recorded all conversations

hospitals without exception.

So we access confessions

faults, desires, everything ...

Almost everything is sentimental nonsense

and destroyed ...

but if they are writers,

actors and political activists ...

never destroyed.

Government policy.

Now ...

tell me ...

What did not realize

his mother?

What did not realize

his mother?

Do not overdo it.

Come on, just been tapped.

Do not overdo it.

- Others were burned with cigarettes.

- Will you do me that?

I do not smoke.

It will happen.

Put your head

knees.

Cover your ears

gently.

Better?

Do we?

Some water, please.

If you answer my question.

What did not realize his mother?

Mothers and daughters

always discussed.

Then you do not remember

or why it was.

Do not beat me.

Do not worry.

It will happen.

Let's talk about Earth''cabinet.''

The girl, whom his mother

has locked ...

imagine that the clothes are now friends

and play with them.

The rooster tells them sympathetic

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Radha Bharadwaj

Radha Bharadwaj is an Indian filmmaker, film producer and screenwriter. She moved to the United States in her late teens to study film. Bharadwaj's screenwriting and directing feature debut is Closet Land. The surreal psychological drama was released by Universal Pictures in 1991, making Radha Bharadwaj the first director of Indian descent to have a film released by a major Hollywood studio. Closet Land stars Alan Rickman and Madeleine Stowe. Ron Howard and Brian Grazer produced the feature. The screenplay for Closet Land won the Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, among others.Bharadwaj's second feature was the 1998 Victorian gothic mystery, Basil. The period thriller, set in the United Kingdom, stars Derek Jacobi, Christian Slater, Jared Leto and Claire Forlani. The director's cut for Basil was twice selected to be the closing night film for the Special Presentation series at the Toronto International Film Festival, and chosen for a prime slot at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The film was also acclaimed at the American Film Market. Bharadwaj is currently working on new projects. more…

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