The Trip To Spain

Davy Chou’s Return To Seoul , which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section of the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, is an unpredictable and refreshingly authentic story of a young woman’s search for identity, and of the ever-shifting relationships that shape it. Freddie (Park Ji-Min) was adopted when she was very young, born in South […]

For the very first time, fashion designer Dries Van Noten allows a filmmaker to accompany him in his creative process and rich home life. For an entire year, Reiner Holzemer documents the precise steps that Dries takes to conceive of four collections, the rich fabrics, embroidery and prints exclusive to his designs. As well as […]

Buster Keaton is at the peak of his slapstick powers in The Cameraman—the first film that the silent-screen legend made after signing with MGM, and his last great masterpiece. The final work over which he maintained creative control, this clever farce is the culmination of an extraordinary, decade-long run that produced some of the most […]

It might have begun as a publicity stunt for ageing tennis player Bobby Riggs (Steve Carrell), but his challenging star women’s player Billie Jean King (Emma Stone) to a tennis match ignited a series of issues that shone a light on the sport’s sexist attitudes. It’s a smart choice of material for the directors of […]

Rikard, autistisk och gravt missbildad, skiljdes vid födseln från sin mor. Nu, 30 år senare, är han övertygad om att få henne tillbaka om han bara vinner de Nordiska mästerskapen i boule. Tänk om han kunde få till det där perfekta kastet, den där magiska känslan när allt klaffar – och vinna den där stora […]

Livet kan vara hårt. En dag får de två unga kvinnorna Manu och Nadine nog av hela djävla skiten. Tillsammans ger de sig ut på en destruktiv tripp kantad av brott, sex och våld. Ingen går säker för deras ofokuserade vrede. Det här är en resa som bara kan sluta på ett sätt. Baise-moi är […]

David Lowery (A Ghost Story, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints) brings the heist genre to a human level, with this tale of a senior citizen bank robber, played by Hollywood royalty Robert Redford. Driven by impulses more quixotic than pure greed, Redford’s bank robber has all the charm and warmth we’ve come to expect across his […]

One of the towering masterpieces of Japanese and world cinema, this three-part war epic has rarely been seen in the UK, at least partly because of its dauntingly gargantuan nine hour length. Director Masaki Kobayashi (Harakiri) was attracted to Junpei Gomikawa s source novel because he recognised himself in the character of the protagonist Kaji, […]