Skogshuggarens saga

I slutet av 1960-talet blev en okänd bilmekaniker från Australien plötsligt en av världens mest berömda män. Det var då som det avslöjades att han utsetts att axla Sean Connerys mantel som James Bond i I hennes majestäts hemliga tjänst.

En tidig luciamorgon kliver en man in på ett postkontor i Stockholm. På ett iskallt och proffsigt sätt länsas kassorna på 400 000 kr. Jarnebring och Johansson från spaningsroteln är snabbt på plats, men under den vilda jakten lyckas rånaren undkomma. Kort därpå inträffar två mystiska mord som kan ha koppling till rånet. De båda […]

Berlin, 1929: a metropolis in turmoil. Speculation and inflation are tearing away at the foundations of the young Weimar Republic. Growing poverty and unemployment stand in stark contrast to the excesses and indulgence of the city’s night life and its overflowing creative energy. Gereon Rath, a young police inspector from Cologne, is transferred to Berlin. […]

Oscar winner Penelope Cruz delivers an extraordinarily emotional performance in Ma Ma, the newest film from Julio Medem (Sex And Lucia). Honouring the high melodrama of Pedro Almodovar and Douglas Sirk, Ma Ma follows Magda (Cruz) as she experiences tragedies and miracles alike. Just as Magda is diagnosed with breast cancer, she meets Arturo (Luis Tosar), […]

Mirror is the celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work in which he reflects upon his own childhood and the destiny of the Russian people. The film’s many layers intertwine real life and family relationships – Tarkovsky’s father, the poet Arseny Tarkovsky, reads his own poems on the soundtrack and Tarkovsky’s mother appears as […]

In a legendary performance, three-time Academy Award winner Jack Nicholson stars as private eye Jake Gittes. Hired by a mysterious woman to investigate Hollis Mulwray, the chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Gittes’ sleuthing brings him into contact with Mulwray’s wife (Academy Award winner Faye Dunaway), a stunning socialite with […]

Following their festival smashes Rumba and Fairy, Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon are back with the whimsical Lost in Paris. Told in their signature vaudeville style, Lost in Paris is a wonderfully composed comedy that evokes the physical humour of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton. After receiving a letter from her visually impaired (and ever […]

The most personal film by the underworld poet Jean-Pierre Melville, who had participated in the French Resistance himself, this tragic masterpiece, based on a novel by Joseph Kessel, recounts the struggles and sacrifices of those who fought in the Resistance. Lino Ventura, Paul Meurisse, Jean-Pierre Cassel, and the incomparable Simone Signoret star as intrepid underground […]