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The Angelic Darkness |
| San Francisco, 1986 – a city where Dionysian liberation is beginning to pall beneath the first shadows of a strange new darkness. Bill Ticino’s fruitless and numbing marriage finally breaks up. Plagued by insomnia and spiritually lost, he believes that finding a tenant for his Pacific Heights home will serve as a temporary solution. A handsome, charismatic Portuguese man named Peter moves in, along with his pet bird, a hoopoe. Bill soon finds himself drawn into a world of magical storytelling, charms and ritual.(...)
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Unholy Ghosts |
| At one time a standout on his legendary Greenwich Village basketball team, a Jewish-American classical guitar teacher seeks a new life in Portugal after the death of so many friends. But what he calls the viral eclipse over sexuality pursues him even there, when António, his most talented and beloved student, tests HIV-positive and threatens to give up on life at just twenty-four. Desperate to show the young man that he still has a future, “the Professor” arranges a car trip across Spain to Paris, hoping to be able to convince a leading virtuoso there to begin preparing his protégé for a concert career. (...) |
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