Missionären

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 […]

Thelma (Eili Harboe) is a member of a small community, but she is so quiet her presence is barely noticeable. However, she has a powerful gift and her attraction to a fellow student (Kaya Wilkins) is only increasing its intensity. Joachim Trier (Oslo, August 31st, Louder Than Bombs) could have echoed Brian De Palma’s penchant […]

In the hands of the renowned experimental theater director Peter Brook, William Golding’s legendary novel about the primitivism lurking beneath civilization becomes a film as raw and ragged as the lost boys at its center. Taking an innovative documentary-like approach, Brook shot Lord of the Flieswith an off-the-cuff naturalism, seeming to record a spontaneous eruption of […]

I Westburg High regerar The Heathers – Heather C, Heather M och Heather D. Deras liv går ut på att shoppa smink och dyra kläder, festa med fotbollskillarna och terrorisera alla elever som inte är lika rika, coola och vackra som de själva. Men The Heathers lärling Veronica har börjat tröttna på trions divalater. När […]

Omständigheter och Audrey Diwan, förärades i september 2021 ett av världens mest prestigefyllda priser: Guldlejonet vid Venedigs Filmfestival

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 […]

Johnny (Joaquin Phoenix) and his young nephew (Woody Norman) forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they are unexpectedly thrown together in this delicate and deeply moving story about the connections between adults and children, the past and the future, from writer-director Mike Mills. 

Whitney is the intimate, definitive account of the superstar’s life and career, authored by renowned Oscar-winning filmmaker Kevin Macdonald. The only film officially supported by the late singer’s estate, it includes previously unreleased recordings, rare never-before-seen footage and live performances recorded by Houston at various stages of her life, as well as original studio recordings and […]