Pain & Glory

Can’t start a fire without a spark, and you can’t become a world-famous writer when you’re from Luton. Or so Javed (Viviek Kalra) thinks. It’s 1987, and it’s not easy being British Pakistani in a commuter town living through the tatters of Thatcher’s Britain. But salvation arrives in the unlikely shape of Bruce Springsteen, whose […]

Winner of Sundance 2019’s Grand Jury Prize, The Souvenir is the compelling, semi-autobiographical drama from award-winning director/writer Joanna Hogg (Unrelated, Archipelago, Exhibition). A young, quietly ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) embarks on her first serious love affair with a charismatic and mysterious man (Tom Burke).  She tries to disentangle fact from fiction as […]

Penélope Cruz och Javier Bardem har huvudrollerna i tvåfaldigt Oscarsbelönade regissören Asghar Farhadis intensiva drama, där hemligheter och svek kommer upp till ytan i en spansk by. Cruz spelar Laura, som återvänder till barndomsbyn från Buenos Aires med sina barn för att vara med på systerns bröllop. Lauras man Alejandro (Ricardo Darín) är inte med, […]

An affair between actress Selena’s (Juliette Binoche) and writer Léonard (Vincent Macaigne) is nearly discovered among their close friends in Léonard’s thinly veiled autobiographical novel. Fortunately for them, Alain (Guillaume Canet), both Selena’s husband and Léonard’s publisher, rejects the book and remains seemingly oblivious to the whole ordeal, maybe because he’s having his own affair […]