Bad Vacations

Bad Vacations

8 Episodes

Wishing you could get away this summer? This collection of some of cinema’s most memorably disastrous trips will have you reconsidering the comforts of home. Dreaming of the crystal blue waters of the French Riviera? The existential ennui of Eric Rohmer’s LA COLLECTIONNEUSE should set you straight. Pining for romance under the Italian sun? Just see how it works out for the tourists in Paul Schrader’s THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS. And then there’s the terror of a vacation-home invasion in Michael Haneke’s FUNNY GAMES and the dread-inducing psychological torpor of a dysfunctional family getaway in Lucrecia Martel’s LA CIÉNAGA. Finally, whatever you do, take a lesson from HOUSE and do not, under any circumstances, visit your witchy aunt’s possessed, people-munching domicile . . .

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Bad Vacations

8 Episodes

  • Bad Vacations Teaser
    01:43
    Bad Vacations Teaser
    Episode 1

    Bad Vacations Teaser

    Episode 1

  • La collectionneuse
    1:26:47
    La collectionneuse
    Episode 2

    La collectionneuse

    Episode 2

    Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1967 • France
    Starring Haydée Politoff, Patrick Bauchau, Daniel Pommereulle

    A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohe...

  • House
    1:27:56
    House
    Episode 3

    House

    Episode 3

    Directed by Nobuhiko Obayashi • 1977 • Japan
    Starring Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo, Kumiko Oba

    How to describe Nobuhiko Obayashi’s indescribable 1977 movie HOUSE (HAUSU)? As a psychedelic ghost tale? A stream-of-consciousness bedtime story? An episode of “Scooby-Doo” as directed by Mario Bava? Any...

  • The Green Ray
    1:39:03
    The Green Ray
    Episode 4

    The Green Ray

    Episode 4

    Directed by Eric Rohmer • 1986 • France
    Starring Marie Rivière, María Luisa García, Vincent Gauthier

    Eric Rohmer captures the ache of summertime sadness with exquisite poignancy in this luminous tale of self-exploration. The Jules Verne novel of the same name provides the loose inspiration for t...

  • The Comfort of Strangers
    1:44:50
    The Comfort of Strangers
    Episode 5

    The Comfort of Strangers

    Episode 5

    Directed by Paul Schrader • 1990 • United States
    Starring Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson

    Two couples are drawn into a dark psychosexual vortex in Paul Schrader’s stylish take on the erotic thriller. Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are a British couple hoping to repa...

  • Funny Games
    1:49:10
    Funny Games
    Episode 6

    Funny Games

    Episode 6

    Directed by Michael Haneke • 1997 • Austria
    Starring Susanne Lothar, Ulrich Mühe, Arno Frisch

    Michael Haneke’s most notorious provocation, FUNNY GAMES spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. ...

  • La Ciénaga
    1:40:56
    La Ciénaga
    Episode 7

    La Ciénaga

    Episode 7

    Directed by Lucrecia Martel • 2001 • Argentina, Spain
    Starring Martín Adjemián, Diego Baenas, Leonora Balcarce

    The release of Lucrecia Martel’s LA CIÉNAGA heralded the arrival of an astonishingly vital and original voice in Argentine cinema. With a radical and disturbing take on narrative, beaut...

  • Fat Girl
    1:26:35
    Fat Girl
    Episode 8

    Fat Girl

    Episode 8

    Directed by Catherine Breillat • 2001 • France, Italy
    Starring Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero de Rienzo

    Twelve-year-old Anaïs is fat. Her sister, fifteen-year-old Elena, is a beauty. While the girls are on vacation with their parents, Anaïs tags along as Elena explores the dreary seaside ...

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