Vincent Perez

In this comprehensive study of Olivier Messiaen's magnum opus, Saint François d'Assise, Vincent Perez Benitez examines the opera from both theological and musical-analytical perspectives to ask how Messiaen expresses his Catholic theology through his work. Benitez combines a close reading of the opera score with accounts from Messiaen's associates, studies of Messiaen's birdsong notebooks and other primary documents, and an examination of the religious,...

Because of his triumph in his first round with the Mafia, Cesare Mori is summoned by Mussolini in 1925 to go to Palermo and do it again.

After a brutal attack by an evil drug cartel, a murder victim is brought back to life by a mysterious crow. He exacts revenge on his killers, only to realize his enemy, the lethal Judah, has discovered the one weakness that can destroy him forever.

How did an ordinary, middle-aged couple become a symbol of defiance against Nazi brutality? This tale of courage unfolds against the tumultuous backdrop of Berlin in 1940. Otto and Anna Quangel are a working class husband and wife doing their best to ride out the war. Their son is killed fighting on the frontlines. They begin pouring their rage and grief into postcards emblazoned with anti-Nazi slogans, risking everything to disseminate their messages...

Hannah and Benjamin are a happily married soul mates whose relationship is brutally severed when Hannah is killed in a car accident. As she dies, a bizarre twist of fate propels Hannah inside the body of her teenage daughter, Sam. As Hannah immerses herself into Sam's world, she discovers some shocking truths about her daughter's secret life. At home, she and her husband draw on the unusual twist of fate that keeps their love alive.

HOCHELAGA, LAND OF SOULS traces Canadian history in a single location at the foot of Mount Royal, where Percival Molson Stadium now stands. From an Iroquoian massacre in 1267 to a college football game, from Jacques Cartier's first voyage in 1535 to the purple fever epidemic in 1687, from the Patriots' uprising in 1837 to brain surgery at the Montreal Neurological Institute in 1944, five Montreal stories are revealed by an archaeologist's excavation....

A New Orleans detective investigating a series of horrific murders, and is lead to a mad doctor who has sustained his creature and himself for over 200 years through genetic experimentation.

This compelling portrayal focuses on the love triangle between brilliant 20th century designer Eileen Gray and her lovers in her long-running feud with the Father of Modernism, Le Corbusier.

A beautiful Catholic is the pawn of her devious mother who skillfully manipulates unstable son Charles IX, the nominal ruler of 1570s France.

The last years of the great French painter Vincent van Gogh are dramatized. The focus is on the time the artist spent in Ales and Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The art of painting itself and the painter's relationship with the concept of infinity are central themes. Not an exhaustive overview of all events in the final years of Van Gogh's life, but focuses on key elements the artist experienced as he struggled with mental turmoil and produced some of his...