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Award-winning director Kelly Reichardt (Meek's Cutoff, Wendy and Lucy) returns with the eagerly awaited 'First Cow', a gripping and glorious story of friendship, petty crime and the pursuit of the American dream on the harsh frontier of the Pacific Northwest. In 1820's Oregon, two loners team up to seek their fortune through a scheme to steal milk from the wealthy landowner's prized Jersey cow - the first, and only, in the territory. A true masterpiece from one of the great modern American filmmakers. - Director:
- Kelly Reichardt
- Cast:
- Alia Shawkat, John Magaro, Dylan Smith
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Pinocchio (2022)Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio
A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realised through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker - which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature - daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where the irrepressible Pinocchio gradually learns what it means to be human through his experiences of war, death, and sacrifice. This 'Pinocchio' imbues the oft-told tale with a bold new resonance about living with courage and compassion. - Director:
- Guillermo Del Toro
- Cast:
- Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann
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Based upon the graphic novels of Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis is the biographical story following the poignant and often hilarious adventures of Marji. From a rebellious, heavy metal loving tomboy experiencing the turmoil of adolescence during the tyrannical, Iranian revolution to a teenage exile in Vienna, Austria, where she discovers the benefits of freedom can be just as shocking as the repressive regime she was forced to leave behind. Returning to Iran as an alienated adult, Marji must now decide where it is her heart and her home must lay in this complex, insightful, honest and touching story, making Persepolis one of the most sublime animated feature films you're likely to experience. - Director:
- Vincent Paronnaud
- Cast:
- Chiara Mastroianni, Gena Rowlands, Catherine Deneuve
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Saint Omer (2022)Saint-Omer
"Saint Omer" follows novelist Rama (Kayije Kagame) who attends the trial of Laurence Coly (Guslagie Malanda), a young woman accused of killing her 15-month-old daughter. As the legal proceedings move forward, the words of the accused along with witness testimonies begin to shake Rama's convictions and call into question both her judgement and that of the viewer. Featuring an array of outstanding performances, 'Saint Omer' is a riveting and utterly unmissable courtroom drama from acclaimed filmmaker Alice Diop. - Director:
- Alice Diop
- Cast:
- Alain Payen, Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanga
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Winner of three Academy Awards including best picture, "Moonlight" is a breath-taking coming-of-age story and the best reviewed film of the year. "Moonlight" follows the story of Chiron (Ashton Sanders) from his early childhood in his depressed Miami neighbourhood to adulthood in Atlanta as he navigates the dangers of drugs, violence, family, love and sexuality. - Director:
- Barry Jenkins
- Cast:
- Mahershala Ali, Shariff Earp, Duan Sanderson
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One Fine Morning (2022)Un beau matin
Celebrated writer-director Mia Hansen-Love (Things to Come, Father of My Children) makes a wise and wistful return with 'One Fine Morning', a profoundly moving portrayal of love, loss and contemporary womanhood, featuring a career-best performance from Lea Seydoux. Set in Paris, Seydoux plays Sandra - a young, widowed mother who juggles her job as a translator with caring both for her young daughter and elderly father. Sandra's life is further complicated when she embarks on a passionate affair with Clement, an old friend in an unhappy marriage. Also starring Melvil Poupaud and Pascal Gregory, this Cannes Film Festival award-winner is a gently poignant romantic drama shot through with the director's characteristically charming touch. - Director:
- Mia Hansen-Løve
- Cast:
- Léa Seydoux, Pascal Greggory, Melvil Poupaud
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Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance. - Director:
- Celine Song
- Cast:
- Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro
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Flowers of Shanghai (1998)Hai shang hua
An intoxicating, time-bending experience bathed in the golden glow of oil lamps and wreathed in an opium haze, this gorgeous period reverie by Hou Hsiao-hsien traces the romantic intrigue, jealousies, and tensions swirling around four late-nineteenth-century Shanghai "flower houses", where courtesans live confined to a gilded cage, ensconced in opulent splendor but forced to work to buy back their freedom. Among the regular clients is the taciturn Master Wang (Tony Leung Chiu-wai), whose relationship with his longtime mistress (Michiko Hada) is roiled by a perceived act of betrayal. Composed in a languorous procession of entrancing long takes, Flowers of Shanghai evokes a vanished world of decadence and cruelty, an insular universe where much of the dramatic action remains tantalizingly offscreen - even as its emotional fallout registers with quiet devastation. - Director:
- Hsiao-hsien Hou
- Cast:
- Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Michiko Hada, Michelle Reis
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Bored New Jersey housewife Roberta (Rosanna Arquette) fills her days by reading the personal ads and following an ongoing romance between "Jim" (Robert Joy) and "Susan" (Madonna), a mysterious drifter who appears to lead the kind of free-spirited life about which Roberta can only dream. And dream she does, until the day she actually shows up at the couple's pre-arranged rendezvous in New York City...and after a bump on the head, a bout of amnesia turns Roberta into Susan and opens the door to intrigue, laughter and love! - Director:
- Susan Seidelman
- Cast:
- Rosanna Arquette, Madonna, Aidan Quinn
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The stunning debut from Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells, 'Aftersun' juxtaposes a hopeful coming-of-age story with a poignant, intimate family portrait that leaves an indelible impression. At a fading vacation resort in the late 1990's, 11-year-old Sophie (Frankie Corio) treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie's tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father, she knew with the man she didn't, in Charlotte Wells' superb and searingly emotional debut film. - Director:
- Charlotte Wells
- Cast:
- Paul Mescal, Frankie Corio, Celia Rowlson-Hall
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Return to Seoul (2022)Retour à Séoul
Davy Chou's 'Return to Seoul', which premiered in Cannes 2022's Un Certain Regard, is an unpredictable and refreshingly authentic story of a young woman's search for identity. Park Ji-Min delivers a revelatory performance as Freddie, an adoptee who was born in South Korea and raised in France. Freddie is magnetic, spirited and hard to pin down; never in one place, or with one person, for long enough to get attached. At 25 years old, she visits Seoul for the first time since her adoption, in an attempt to reconnect with her biological parents and the culture she had to leave behind. - Director:
- Davy Chou
- Cast:
- Park Ji-Min, Kwang-rok Oh, Guka Han
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From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) moves relentlessly towards her goal: taking the reins of power from the great actress Margo Channing (Bette Davis). The cunning Eve maneuvers her way into Margo's Broadway role, becomes a sensation and even causes turmoil in the lives of Margo's director boyfriend (Gary Merrill), her playwright (Hugh Marlowe) and his wife (Celeste Holm). Only the cynical drama critic (George Sanders) sees through Eve, admiring her audacity and perfect pattern of deceit. Thelma Ritter and Marilyn Monroe co-star in this acclaimed classic, which won six Academy Awards and received the most nominations (14) in film history. - Director:
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Cast:
- Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
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