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MS. 45 är den kanske mest våldsamma och chockerande rape & revenge-film som gjorts. 1981 totalförbjöds filmen i Sverige och en rad andra länder och

An unforgettable mixture of bubblegum teen melodrama and grisly phantasmagoria, Nobuhiko Obayashis deranged fairy tale House is one of Japanese cinema s wildest supernatural ventures and a truly startling debut feature. Upset by her widowed father s plans to remarry, Angel sets off with six of her schoolgirl friends in tow for a summer getaway at her aunt s isolated […]

Winner of the Grand Prix award at Cannes 2022 and selected as the Belgian entry for the 2023 Academy Awards, Close is an elegant, poetic and empathetic study of youth from acclaimed writer-director Lukas Dhont. Thirteen-year-olds Léo and Rémi are inseparable; they spend every waking moment together, racing each other on their bikes, playing in […]

What if you were the only man on Earth able to remember the iconic music of The Beatles? A collaboration up there with Lennon-McCartney, Yesterday is the brain child of director Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire, Trainspotting) and screenwriter Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Love Actually). As full of soul and heart as any […]

A psychological thriller (based on a true story) in which Jeremy Irons plays both Elliot and Beverly Mantle, a pair of gynaecologist twins who have always shared everything – until Claire (Genevieve Bujold) walks into their clinic. Initially toying with her affections, sibling rivalry gradually increases until the two threaten to pull each other apart. […]

The Newport Jazz Festival was created in 1954 by Rhode Island socialites Elaine and Louis Lorillard, and it couldn’t have come at a better time in history. With a few exceptions, the big band jazz scene had waned in the early 1950s and, in its place, smaller groups and solo performers took centre stage, which […]

I källarvalvet i en sedan länge övergiven kyrka hittas ett mystiskt kärl som generationer av präster före vår tid vaktat iurminnes tider. Men dess flytande innehåll är äldre än så.

Finland’s master of deadpan comedy, Aki Kaurismäki (Lights in the Dusk, Le Havre), returns with The Other Side of Hope, the story of an unlikely friendship between a Syrian asylum seeker and an elderly Finnish restaurant owner. Worthy winner of the 2017 Berlin Silver Bear for Best Director, it is a beautiful, timely film from […]