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Director : Lukas Dhont
Country : Belgium
Release Date : 2022
Duration : 104 mins
Language : French and Dutch
Subtitles : Yes
WINNER : GRAND PRIX AT 2022 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
Léo and Rémi are two thirteen-year-old best friends, whose seemingly unbreakable bond is suddenly, tragically torn apart. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, Lukas Dhont’s second film is an emotionally transformative and unforgettable portrait of the intersection of friendship and love, identity and independence, and heartbreak and healing.
“Dambrine’s performance is by some distance one of the most extraordinary by a child his age I’ve ever seen: tempered, tightly wound, as truthful as a flower.” (Leslie Felperin – Financial Times)
Buena Vista Social Club
Director : Wim Wenders
Country : Cuba
Release Date : 1999
Duration : 105 mins
Language : English and Spanish
Subtitles : Yes
WINNER : BEST DOCUMENTARY AT 1999 EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
The film documents how Ry Cooder, long-time friend of director Wim Wenders, brought together the ensemble of legendary Cuban musicians to record an album and to perform with a full line-up in April 1998 in Amsterdam and July 1998 at Carnegie Hall, New York. Although they are geographically close, travel between Cuba and the United States was restricted due to the political tension between the two countries, so many of the artists were travelling there for the first time. The film shows their reactions to this experience, as well as including footage of the resultant sell-out concert. It also includes interviews with each of the main performers.
“Fantastic music, great stories. A charming film full of joy and love for music.” (Rotten Tomatoes website)
My Old Lady
Director : Israel Horovitz
Country : UK
Release Date : 2014
Duration : 102 mins
Language : English
Subtitles : No
Performed by the arresting trio of Kevin Kline, Maggie Smith and Kristin Scott Thomas, each of them playing characters with demons to face up to, this film exudes Gallic charm, brocante and beaucoup du vin. Kline’s dishevelled Mathias, a failed playwright, arrives in Paris to claim an apartment left to him by his much-loathed late father. He is soon embroiled in archaic French law when he realises the opulent home he has inherited comes complete with an elderly woman, Mathilde (Smith) and her daughter (Scott Thomas), to whom he must pay a monthly fee while they remain there until the old woman dies.
“Having Maggie Smith on screen is like biting into a crisp, slightly sour apple. Even when she is playing a woman in her nineties, quilted with wrinkles, the interior is deliciously tart.” (Kate Muir – The Times)
Jules et Jim
Director : François Truffaut
Country : France
Release Date : 1962
Duration : 106 mins
Language : French
Subtitles : Yes
WINNER : BEST EUROPEAN FILM AT 1963 BODIL AWARDS
In pre-First World War Paris, two friends, Jules (Austrian) and Jim (French), fall in love with the same woman, Catherine. But Catherine loves and marries Jules. When they meet again in Germany after the war, Catherine starts to love Jim – This is the story of three people in love, a love that doesn’t affect their friendship, and about how their relationship evolves with the years. Starring Jeanne Moreau, Henri Serre and Oskar Werner.
“More than 50 years old, François Truffaut’s whirling dervish remains an ageless beauty.” (Ed Gonzalez – Village Voice)
Cairo Conspiracy
Director : Tarik Saleh
Country : Egypt
Release Date : 2022
Duration : 120 mins
Language : Arabic
Subtitles : Yes
WINNER : BEST SCREENPLAY AT 2022 CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
LONG-LISTED : BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM AT 2022 OSCARS
Adam, the son of a fisherman, is offered the ultimate privilege to study at the Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the epicentre of power of Sunni Islam. Shortly after his arrival in Cairo, the University’s highest-ranking religious leader, the Grand Imam, suddenly dies and Adam becomes a pawn in a ruthless power struggle between Egypt’s religious and political elite over who will replace him.
“A great crime thriller that takes the audience into a world that they will seldom see.” (David Griffiths – Subculture Entertainment)
All That Heaven Allows
Director : Douglas Sirk
Country : USA
Release Date : 1955
Duration : 89 mins
Language : English
Subtitles : No
The films follows the blossoming love between a well-off widow (Jane Wyman) and her handsome younger gardener (Rock Hudson). When their romance prompts the scorn of her children and country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others. With the help of ace cinematographer Russell Metty, Sirk imbues nearly every shot with a vivid and distinct emotional tenor. A profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small-town America, All That Heaven Allows is a pinnacle of expressionistic Hollywood melodrama.
“A masterpiece by one of the most inventive and recondite directors ever to work in Hollywood.” (Dave Kehr – Chicago Reader)