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Michelangelo Antonioni invented a new film grammar with this masterwork. An iconic piece of challenging 1960s cinema and a gripping narrative on its own terms, L’Avventura concerns the enigmatic disappearance of a young woman during a yachting trip off the coast of Sicily, and the search taken up by her disaffected lover (Gabriele Ferzetti) and best friend […]

Volker Schlöndorff transported Bertolt Brecht’s 1918 debut play to contemporary West Germany for this vicious experiment in adaptation, seldom seen for nearly half a century. Oozing with brutish charisma

På en lista som inkluderar Oscarvinnaren Den siste kejsaren, 1900 och Sista tangon i Paris är detta filmen som många kritiker placerar som Bertoluccis främsta verk

Ian McEwan’s adaptation of his novel, directed by Dominic Cooke, is an emotionally charged exploration of love, sex and marriage, featuring superb performances by Lady Bird star Saoirse Ronan and Billy Howle (Dunkirk). It is summer 1962, and England has yet to undergo the social changes that ushered in a new morality synonymous with the Swinging […]

Alain Resnais’s Muriel, or The Time of Return, the director’s follow-up to Last Year at Marienbad, is as radical a reflection on the nature of time and memory as its predecessor. The always luminous Delphine Seyrig stars a

Sådan mor, sådan dotter? Glöm det! Två av samma blod kan knappast vara så olika som Avril och Mado. Dottern Avril har ett tryggt jobb på en parfymfirma och är pedant. Mamma Mado är arbetslös, åker moppe, älskar vilda fester och bär sig åt som en osnuten tonåring. Givetvis går de varandra på nerverna, speciellt […]

Jennifer Lawrence re-teams with her Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence for this entertaining action spy thriller. The star pupil of a secret Russian espionage academy, former prima ballerina Dominika Egorova is given the assignment of uncovering a mole in the government by making contact with an American agent (Joel Edgerton). The two young operatives fall into […]

One of Mexico’s most highly regarded works of political cinema, Canoa: A Shameful Memory reimagines a real-life incident that had occurred just eight years before its release