La La Land

In Beginners, director Mike Mills offered up a loving portrait of his father. This time it’s the turn of his mother and Annette Bening gives a barnstorming, career-best performance as Dorothea Fields, flawlessly delivering zingers like “Wondering if you’re happy is just a shortcut to being depressed”. Unvarnished and oozing charisma, Bening radiates in this […]

Blessed with astonishing power and poise, Sergei Polunin took the dance world by storm and became the Royal Ballet’s youngest ever principal. At the peak of his success, aged 25, he walked away, driven to the brink of self-destruction by stardom – his talent more a burden than a gift. Here is an unprecedented look […]

On hearing the news that his brother Joe (Kyle Chandler) has died, Lee (Casey Affleck) returns home to the small Massachusetts fishing town. Discovering that Joe has made him sole guardian of his son Patrick (Lucas Hedges), Lee realises that he is going to have to confront the events that drove him away. Kenneth Lonergan’s […]

Loïe Fuller förförde en generation med sin virvlande serpentindans. Nu plockar Stéphanie Di Giusto upp hennes öde i en färgsprakande filmupplevelse för alla sinnen. Marie Louise växer upp i fattigdom och ser sin pappa mördas av rivaliserande guldgrävare. Utan ett öre på fickan söker hon sig till New York där motgångarna fortsätter. Men plötsligt uppenbarar […]