Ivan’s Childhood

Palme d’Or-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Uncle Boonmee who can Recall his Past Lives) returns with the surreal and overtly political Cemetery of Splendour. Soldiers struck by a mysterious sleeping epidemic lie comatose in a temporary clinic. The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as she watches over Itt, a handsome […]

In a beautifully realised adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s novel, Saoirse Ronan shines as Eilis, a young Irish woman who travels to America in order to find work and build a new life. Matters of the heart, on both sides of the Atlantic, soon play a major factor and she is forced to choose between two […]

New England, 1630: William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life, homesteading on the edge of an impassible wilderness, with five children. When their newborn son mysteriously vanishes and their crops fail, the family begins to turn on one another. The Witch is a chilling portrait of a family unraveling within their own fears and anxieties, […]

What does it mean to film another person? How does it affect the person – and what does it do to the one who films? A boxing match in Brooklyn; life in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina; the daily routine of a Nigerian midwife; an intimate family moment at home: these scenes and others are woven into […]

I många år har den gamle träsnidaren Mr Chameleon underhållit traktens barn med sina historier om den farliga draken som bor långt in i den djupa skogen. För hans dotter Grace, som jobbar som skogsvaktare är dessa berättelser inte mer än överdrivna historier, tills hon möter Peter, en 10-åring utan vare sig hem eller familj. […]

In Beginners, director Mike Mills offered up a loving portrait of his father. This time it’s the turn of his mother and Annette Bening gives a barnstorming, career-best performance as Dorothea Fields, flawlessly delivering zingers like “Wondering if you’re happy is just a shortcut to being depressed”. Unvarnished and oozing charisma, Bening radiates in this […]

Rupert Pupkin är en underhållare av världsklass – i alla fall enligt honom själv! Men trots sina 34 år bor han fortfarande hemma hos mamma, där han leder låtsasshower med kändisar i papp, och är hopplöst okänd. Desperat efter att slå igenom börjar han förfölja sin store idol, Jerry Langford, i hopp om att denne […]

Few filmmakers have enjoyed a decade quite so diverse or quite so prolific as Rainer Werner Fassbinder did during the seventies. Amid the likes of The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and Fear Eats the Soul, it s easy to forget some of the lesser-known and more singular works, two of which are presented […]