Reckless Living

A dazzling musical about a young Arab woman facing deportation just as she is about to receive a heart transplant.

The Full Monteverdi follows the simultaneous break-up of six couples, from shocking revelation, vengeful anger and erotic longing for reconciliation, as an ensemble film. Vulnerable and disarming, it draws viewers into its emotional journey and intensely moving portrait of contemporary love.

Tasked with preventing the destruction of humanity, the Chaldea Security Organization observes an anomaly: the Near-Future Observation Lens: Sheba proved the extinction of humanity in 2019. Chaldea pinpoints space-time Singularities thought to be the cause of humanity’s extinction and executes a forbidden ceremony called Rayshifting, where mages are converted into Spiritrons and sent into the past to restore humanity. Under the command of Romani Archaman and with the aid of numerous Servants, Ritsuka Fujimaru and Mash Kyrielight begin by restoring Singularity F: Flame Contaminated City, Fuyuki. From there, they make their way through seven Singularities, resolving each of them. And now, the path to the Final Singularity, Grand Temple of Time: Solomon, lies open, and the final battle against the King of Mages is underway.

In 1995, ABC presented a telemovie version of the Broadway musical Bye Bye Birdie produced by RHI Entertainment. It starred Seinfeld's Jason Alexander and Vanessa Williams of Desperate Housewives. While this version remained mostly faithful to the original musical (Michael Stewart remains the only credited author of this version), several songs were added and re-arranged, and dialogue was slightly rewritten to smoothly facilitate the musical changes. The musical revolves around an Elvis Presley-type rocker who's about to join the Army. To mark the occasion, his manager's secretary arranges for him to kiss a random fan goodbye on The Ed Sullivan Show. Bye Bye Birdie earned four Tony awards in 1961, including Best Musical and Best Actor in a Musical for its original star, Dick Van Dyke. In addition to Alexander and Williams, ABC's production starred Tyne Daly, George Wendt, Chynna Phillips and Mark Kudisch.

The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.