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In Ruben Östlund’s wickedly funny Palme d’Or winner, social hierarchy is turned upside down, revealing the tawdry relationship between power and beauty. Celebrity model couple, Carl (Harris Dickinson) and Yaya (Charlbi Dean), are invited on a luxury cruise for the uber-rich, helmed by an unhinged boat captain (Woody Harrelson). What first appeared instagrammable ends catastrophically, […]

Montparnasse 19, a film about the tragic final years in the life of Italian painter and sculptor Amadeo Modigliani, was itself beset by tragedy. Max Ophuls, the famed director of Letter from an Unknown Woman and Le Plaisir, died during its production, leaving his friend Jacques Becker to complete the picture. Its lead performer too, […]

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan deep dives into the life of the tortured Irish vocalist, best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the Pogues, who famously combined traditional Irish music with the visceral energy of punk rock. Featuring unseen archival footage from the band and MacGowan’s family, as well […]

Förspillda dagar är filmen som var nära att aldrig få biopremiär. Testpubliken förfasade sig över den starka realismen, så när Paramount erbjöds fem miljoner dollar (!) av spritlobbyister för att ”begrava” den alkoholkritiska filmen var

Following his release from prison, Oscar Wilde spent his last years a shadow of the character that he once was. Not that his waspish humour left him, as star and director Rupert Everett highlights in this intelligent and moving portrait. It’s a superb performance by Everett, conveying both the pain and preening of the noted […]

Kommendörkapten Claus M. Pedersen och hans män är stationerade i Afghanistan, ständigt med våldet närvarande. Samtidigt kämpar hans fru därhemma med att klara av livet med deras tre barn medan fadern är borta. Under ett uppdrag blir Claus och hans trupp utsatta för ett kraftigt anfall och för att rädda sina män tvingas han ta […]

Bi-racial, female, working class and possessing an unforgettable warrior-cry voice (not to mention the most satirical perspective in punk), X-Ray Spex founder Poly Styrene was, as Billboard proclaimed, “one of the least conventional front-persons in rock history”.  For the first time, the jigsaw pieces of Poly’s fascinating life are brought together by her daughter […]

Luca Guadagnino goes for something completely different after the tender and sun-drenched Call Me by Your Name, with a re-envisioning of Dario Argento’s 1977 classic horror. Suspiria sees Guadagnino reunite with serial collaborator Tilda Swinton (previously cast in I Am Love and A Bigger Splash), who plays the artistic director of a world-renowned dance company, with […]