Rodrigo Garcia
Author
Language
English
Description
"This is a beautiful farewell to two extraordinary people. It enthralled and moved me, and it will move and enthrall anyone who has ever entered the glorious literary world of Gabriel García Márquez."-Salman Rushdie
"In A Farewell to Gabo and Mercedes Rodrigo Garcia finds the words that cannot be said, the moments that signal all that is possible to know about the passage from life to death, from what love brings and the loss it leaves. With details...
Author
Language
English
Description
The son of one of the greatest writers of our time-Nobel Prize winner and internationally bestselling icon Gabriel García Márquez-remembers his beloved father and mother in this tender memoir about love and loss.
In March 2014, Gabriel García Márquez, one of the most acclaimed writers of the twentieth century, came down with a cold. The woman who had been beside him for more than fifty years, his wife Mercedes Barcha, was not hopeful; her husband,...
4) Albert Nobbs
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
ALBERT NOBBS struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant hotel, Albert meets a handsome painter and looks to escape the lie she has been living. Official Selection at the **Toronto International Film Festival**. Nominated for three **Academy Awards**.
7) Cómo ser feliz según don Quijote: Guía para la meditación diaria basada en los valores de cervantes
Author
Language
Español
Description
"Cómo ser feliz según Don Quijote" es una guía práctica para la meditación diaria, un buen coaching a nivel físico, mental, afectivo y corporativo. Se trata del único libro de autoayuda completamente basado en los valores de Cervantes, con citas de El Quijote en cada capítulo. De gran utilidad para ordenarse y motivarse a fondo, nos ayuda a sacar el Don Quijote que llevamos dentro, el auténtico caballero que basa su felicidad en la ayuda...
8) Until August
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios...
10) Nine lives
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Nine women each face a different situation in their lives. Among the stories told by director Rodrigo Garcia are a female inmate waiting for her children's visit, a woman facing cancer surgery, and a woman reuniting with an old flame at the supermarket.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Language
English
Description
When death is your business, what is your life? For the employees at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home, the world outside continues to be at least as challenging, and far less predictable, as the one inside. Includes 13 episodes, audio commentaries, and more.
13) Mother and child
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Three women's lives share a common core. They have all been profoundly affected by adoption. At age fourteen, Karen placed a baby for adoption, and has been haunted ever since by the daughter she never knew. Elizabeth grew up as an adopted child. Even though she is a bright and ambitious lawyer, she is a flinty loner in her personal life. Lucy and her husband are just embarking on the adoption odyssey, hoping for the opportunity to become parents....
14) In treatment
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Paul is a therapist who exhibits great insight and confidence when treating his patients. But Paul suffers crippling insecurities and is counseled by his own therapist, Gina. Adding to his list of growing concerns, his wife, Kate, who is overcome with feelings of neglect and resents competing for his attention. Paul's patients undergoing treatment include: a young doctor who is in love with Paul; a Navy pilot who is reevaluating his life after a failed...
15) Gabo & Cinema
Publisher
Pragda
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
It is said that Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez never allowed for a film adaptation of his singular masterpiece *One Hundred Years of Solitude*, arguably the most influential novel in any language of the second half of the twentieth century, to be produced. However, the prolific Colombian writer had strong ties to the movies. GABO & CINEMA is a commendable and well documented contribution to the general study of Gabriel García Márquez’s...
16) Four good days
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Emerging from a detox clinic, a young addict must stay clean while living with her mother for the next four days.
17) Gia
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Based on the tragic life of America's first supermodel. It is the late 70's in New York City - the home of Studio 54, designer jeans, drugs and disco. One girl is living life in the fast lane. She can have any man - or woman - she wants. Sex, money, glamour, fame - it was all within her reach. She walks toward you across the dance floor, struts toward you down the runway, stares at you from the cover of a magazine. She was a star who appeared on the...
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Follow Jesus in an imagined chapter from his forty days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his way out of the wilderness, he struggles with the Devil over the fate of an ordinary family in crisis, setting for himself a dramatic test with distinctly human conflicts.
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Set within the highly charged confines of individual psychotherapy sessions, the series once again centers around Dr. Paul Weston, who recently divorced his wife Kate and moved from Maryland to a brownstone in Brooklyn, New York. Rebuilding his practice while wrestling with some of the demons he left behind, including a lawsuit filed by the father of Alex, a patient who died last year, Paul takes on several new patients.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001], c1999
Language
English
Description
An anthology of 5 loosely connected and interwoven stories showing how women deal with the variety of problems that each faces in her life. A doctor looking after her invalid mother who realizes that her own life is passing her by. A wealthy bank manager dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, a workaholic boyfriend, and a street woman who dispenses advice that hits too close to the truth. A single mother debating starting a relationship with the dwarf...