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Robert Bresson (Au hasard Balthazar) plumbs great reservoirs of feeling with Mouchette, one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film. With a dying mother, an absent, alcoholic father, and a baby brother in need of care, the teenage Mouchette seeks solace and respite from her circumstances in the nature of […]

Based on John le Carré’s first novel, Call for the Dead (which introduced spymaster George Smiley), The Deadly Affair sees an ageing British secret agent (James Mason) set out to uncover the truth behind a government employee’s apparent suicide. Eschewing the glamour of the era’s Bond thrillers, Lumet’s chilling and intelligent take on the spy drama presents a palpable […]

With excruciating honesty, The Squid and the Whale chronicles the experiences of two young brothers growing up in 1980s Park Slope, Brooklyn, as they navigate the jagged contours of the divorce of their parents, both writers. The acclaimed third feature by Noah Baumbach marked a critical development for the filmmaker as he turned toward an increasingly personal […]

”Charlie” McGee är nästan som alla andra åttaåringar. Men bara nästan. ”Charlie” är eldfödd. När hon blir arg får hon saker att börja brinna. Till och med människor. Hon är resultatet av ett drogexperiment som hennes föräldrar utsattes för strax innan ”Charlie” föddes, arrangerat av det statliga institutet ”Butiken”. Nu tänker de röva bort ”Charlie” […]

In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Phoenix Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is squashed when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to help battle a rival gang. This onslaught of stylized violence and trippy colours got director Seijun Suzuki (Branded to Kill) in trouble with Nikkatsu studio heads, who were put off […]

Kristen Stewart joins director Olivier Assayas (Clouds of Sils Maria) again, albeit for a very different, deeply unsettling kind of film. She plays Maureen Cartwright, who is responsible for picking a celebrity’s clothes. Her life takes a darker turn when she experiences an uncanny spiritual crisis. Part-horror, part-psychological study, it defies expectations all the way […]

Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made—a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar endowment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself […]

Med filmen Bergman – Ett år, ett liv har regissören Jane Magnusson försökt fånga HELA personen Ingmar Bergman, och alla hans sidor. Både de fantastiska och de mindre smickrande, i syfte att förstå denna stora konstnär ännu bättre. Hela filmen utgår från året 1957 då Ingmar Bergman fick sitt stora genombrott. Jane Magnusson har tidigare […]