The Breaking Point

The expanses of the American West take center stage in this intimately observed triptych from Kelly Reichardt. Adapted from three short stories by Maile Meloy and unfolding in self-contained but interlocking episodes, Certain Women navigates the subtle shifts in personal desire and social expectation that unsettle the circumscribed lives of its characters: a lawyer (Laura Dern) forced […]

Syskonen Cemal, Kenan och Suzi har vuxit ifrån varandra sedan de flyttade ifrån den lilla byn där de växte upp. En dag hör deras pappa av sig och kräver att de kommer tillbaka till byn. Tillsammans ger de sig ut på en resa där de återupplever minnen från förr, försöker hantera varandras egenheter och lära […]

Redan vid den triumfartade premiären 1945 intog Paradisets barn platsen som fransk films mest värdefulla juvel, vilket den alltjämt anses vara.

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 […]

Set against a backdrop of emerging teen culture and rising racial tension in late 50s London, Colin MacInnes’ cult novel is brought to the screen in Julien Temple’s lavish musical adaptation. Struggling young photographer Colin sees his ambitious, fame-seeking girlfriend Crepe Suzette slipping away as she ruthlessly pursues a career in fashion. To win her […]

Omar Sy är doktor Knock i denna färgstarka må-bra-komedi. Omar charmade en hel värld i jättesuccén En oväntad vänskap i 2010-talets början och har sedan dess gjort succé i franska filmer som

Andrei Tarkovsky’s debut feature is an extraordinarily moving and powerful story of war and revenge. Determined to avenge his family’s death at the hands of the Nazis, 12 year-old Ivan joins a Russian partisan regiment as a scout, where he becomes indispensable for his ability to slip unnoticed behind enemy lines. But, as his missions become […]

Andy Griffith plays a folk idol turned TV demagogue in Elia Kazan’s eerily prescient satire. A Face in the Crowd chronicles the rise and fall of Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes (Andy Griffith), a boisterous entertainer discovered in an Arkansas drunk tank by Marcia Jeffries (Patricia Neal), a local radio producer with ambitions of her own. His […]