Naken + Hemligheter & lögner

Åttaåriga Pottan ska på ponnyläger. Tror hon och hennes föräldrar. Men av misstag hamnar hon på en skrotgård. Hos några riktigt märkliga typer. Motvilligt tar de hand om Pottan – som snart upptäcker deras hemlighet. Bakom höga stängsel snickras det på en hemmagjord rymdfarkost. Det blir en sommar med humor, äventyr och oväntad vänskap när […]

A new adaptation of Thomas Cullinan’s novel of the same name as opposed to a remake of the ’71 Clint Eastwood vehicle, The Beguiled is a mesmerising drama from Sofia Coppola (Lost in Translation, The Bling Ring) for which she won Best Director at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. In the American Civil War, an injured Union soldier […]

Writer-director Felipe Gálvez makes his revelatory debut with The Settlers, a searing and indelible take on the Western. At the turn of the 20th century, three horsemen set out across the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, tasked with securing a wealthy landowner’s vast property. Accompanying a reckless British lieutenant and an American mercenary is mestizo marksman […]

A sudden bereavement throws Luke, a fiercely independent young man with Down syndrome, into a daunting new environment where he finds unexpected support from his feisty streetwise carer and a local heir dealing with his own demons. As friendships bloom and long-buried secrets are revealed, Luke verges dangerously close to disaster. My Feral Heart is […]

Winner of both the Academy Award for best foreign-language film and the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or, Marcel Camus’ Black Orpheus (Orfeu negro) brings the ancient Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice to the twentieth-century madness of Carnival in Rio de Janeiro. With its eye-popping photography and ravishing, epochal soundtrack, Black Orpheus was a cultural […]

A pair of siblings from London (Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey) purchase a surprisingly affordable, lonely cliff-top house in Cornwall, only to discover that it actually carries a ghostly price—and soon they’re caught up in a bizarre romantic triangle from beyond the grave. Rich in atmosphere, The Uninvited, directed by Lewis Allen, was groundbreaking for […]

Jacques Demy followed up The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac), long for big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so […]

Den unga författaren Rama är åhörare vid en rättegång i Frankrike. En mamma, Laurence Coly står åtalad för att ha mördat sin 15 månader gamla dotter efter att ha lämnat henne vid strandkantens stigande tidvatten. I takt med att rättegången fortsätter kommer Rama att ifrågasätta sina egna övertygelser och börja tvivla på sig själv. Alice […]