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Written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, Paterson follows Paterson (Adam Driver), a New Jersey bus driver with a hidden talent for writing poetry. Following the same routine each day, Paterson uses his observations while driving as inspiration for his writing. With his quirky and ambitious wife Laura (Golshifteh Farahani) pushing him to publish his work, Paterson […]

Tillsammans med skolans andra elever blir Chen vittne till hur hennes mobbade väninna hoppar mot en säker död från en balkong. Hennes fruktansvärda öde ändrar dock inte mobbarnas beteende. Nu riktar de in sig på Chen i stället

Året är 1967. Franska nya vågens främsta affischnamn Jean-Luc Godard (Louis Garrel) har precis färdigställt sitt senaste opus La Chinoise. Under arbetet har tycke uppstått mellan Godard och filmens huvudrollsinnehavare tillika hans musa Anne Wiazemsky. Allt borde vara upplagt för frid och fröjd och ett “så levde de lyckliga i alla sina dagar”. Det visar […]

Vincent, en fransk soldat som just kommit hem från tjänstgöring inom specialförbandet i Afghanistan, lider av posttraumatiskt stressyndrom. Han blir anställd för att hålla Jessie, hustrun till en rik libanesisk affärsman, säker i deras lyxvilla ”Maryland”. Vincent blir snart fascinerad av kvinnan han är anställd att skydda och blir alltmer paranoid. Om det inte är så att […]

Susan Seidelman established her distinctive vision of New York City with this debut feature, the lo-fi original for her vibrant portraits of women reinventing themselves. After escaping New Jersey, the quintessentially punk Wren (Susan Berman)—a spark plug in fishnets—moves to the city with the mission of becoming famous. When not pasting up self-promotional flyers or […]

Set during the mid 19th century in Snowdonia, Gwen (Eleanor Worthington-Cox) lives with her sister Mari (Jodie Innes) and her mother (Maxine Peake). The industrial revolution is scarring the earth and their flint cottage is meagre shelter against the icy winds as they eke out a meagre existence. Forces marshal against them, as the local […]

Prodigious talent Xavier Dolan comes of age with his dazzling sixth film, It’s Only the End of the World, based on the play of the same name by Jean-Luc Lagarce and featuring an all-star cast of top French actors. After 12 years of estrangement a writer (Gaspard Ulliel) returns to his hometown, planning on announcing […]

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 […]