Woman to Woman - DVD

What it creates, love can also destroy. That much is clear in Two Women, as love and desire forge and raze relationships on a rich Russian estate. This adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's play A Month in the Country centers around the lovely Natalya as she seeks passion outside a lackluster marriage. Though dashing Mikhail (Ralph Fiennes)couldn't be more different from her wealthy older husband, Natalya spurns his attempts at flirtation. Instead she's darkly drawn to her son's young tutor Aleksei, and she's not the only one. Her teenage stepdaughter Vera is smitten as well, and the two women find themselves ensnared in a complex web of unrequited love, guilt, lust and jealousy whose consequences will shake their world to it's core.

Aggie Specks somehow maintains dignity in her ramshackle home in a city dump, and showers her daughter, April, with attention and love. The factory of tycoon Elias Moorehouse overlooks the makeshift huts, and he has pulled political strings to have Aggie, and the other poor homeless souls evicted once and for all. Moorehouse's efforts are terminated when he suffers a stroke and dies. Aggie then shocks the entire city with the claim that

Based on true events, WOMAN WALKS AHEAD tells the story of Catherine Weldon (Jessica Chastain), a widowed artist from New York who, in the 1880s, traveled alone to North Dakota to paint a portrait of Chief Sitting Bull (Michael Greyeyes). Her arrival at Standing Rock is welcomed with open hostility by a US Army officer (Sam Rockwell), who has stationed troops around the Lakota reservation to undermine Native American claims to the land. As Catherine and Sitting Bull grow closer, and as their friendship-and his life-are threatened by imperious government forces, Catherine must contend with the violence that underlies her position.