Patriotism

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 […]

From Lucasfilm comes the first of the Star Wars stand-alone films, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, an epic adventure. In a time of conflict, a group of unlikely heroes band together on a mission to steal the plans to the Death Star, the Empire’s ultimate weapon of destruction. This key event in the Star […]

Danny Says is a documentary chronicling the iconic life and times of Danny Fields, the legend who since 1966 played a pivotal part in shaping rock and roll and the counterculture of the late 20th century.

Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Albin (Michel Serrault)—a middle-aged gay couple who are the manager and star performer at a glitzy drag club in Saint-Tropez—agree to hide their sexual identities, along with their flamboyant personalities and home decor, when the ultraconservative parents of Renato’s son’s fiancée come for a visit. This elegant comic scenario kicks off […]

An affair between actress Selena’s (Juliette Binoche) and writer Léonard (Vincent Macaigne) is nearly discovered among their close friends in Léonard’s thinly veiled autobiographical novel. Fortunately for them, Alain (Guillaume Canet), both Selena’s husband and Léonard’s publisher, rejects the book and remains seemingly oblivious to the whole ordeal, maybe because he’s having his own affair […]

Widely regarded as the greatest martial arts epic of all time, A Touch of Zen won awards worldwide (including at Cannes), smashed box-office records and had an incalculable influence on the genre as a whole. An unambitious painter named Gu (Shih Jun) lives with his mother in the vicinity of an abandoned mansion rumoured to be haunted. […]

Skåningen Edvard Persson var Europafilms guldkalv nummer ett och medverkade i filmer som ofta drog in storkovan. Regissörerna växlade, men det spelade mindre roll eftersom Edvard i regel ändå gjorde jobbet själv. Han var sin egen genre och spelade ständigt samma typ av roll – en rättskaffens man med talets och sångens gåva som kunde […]

40 år av ömsesidig beundran, konstnärlig tävlan och djup vänskap. Som tonåringar delade de allt – hopp, tvivel, rädslor och ambitioner, drömmen om ära och rikedom. Att Paul Cézanne kom från en rik familj och Émile Zola från en fattig gjorde ingen skillnad. Tillsammans lämnade de Aix en-Provence för Paris – Montmartre och Batignolles. Där […]