The group of speleologists in Il Buco are housed in the storage room of a church, a sublime decision by the filmmakers that gives Berta ample opportunity to visually connect the scientists of the early Sixties with the splendour of Renaissance paintings.
Drama based on the true adventures of a group of young speleologists who in 1961 descended into a hole in the mountains of Calabria to explore what was then the third-deepest known cave on Earth.
Under the Sicilian sunlight, Oscar collects scrap metal with his father. At the other end of town, Stanley the Nigerian migrant gets by thanks to small tasks given by the parish priest. Both share the same desire for a better life.
If the story of a stranger arriving to try and save a beautiful young woman sounds like a familiar fairytale, beware - this is Gilliam's work after all, and nothing is quite as it seems.
A travelling show offers visitors the chance to choose between light and joy and darkness and doom.
Contributors... range from seasoned campaigners to academic experts and people who have successfully negotiated change.
A documentary exploring the movement to eliminate the use of Native American slurs, names, logos, images and gestures which many Native Americans and their allies find demeaning and offensive.
The band’s music, written by rock star Andrzej Smolik is well-realised by the cast and generates a combative emotional undercurrent although whether quite so much of it is needed is debatable.
Portrait of a woman living in late-Eighties Poland.
The simplicity of the set-up allows for a tautness, wound ever tighter by a rich score from Paulo Gallo, using slippery strings goosed by flutes, and sound design from Isaac Moreno and Mauricio López that emphasises the wildness of the setting.
A father and his daughters face a dilemma while they're out on a lake.
Immortals could and should have been so much more.
Theseus is a mortal man chosen by Zeus to lead the fight against the ruthless King Hyperion, who is on a rampage across Greece to obtain a weapon that can destroy humanity.
Perhaps speculation is itself inappropriate here. Everything is focused on the present moment.
For one full year between the harvest festivals of Samhain, Immrám follows a charismatic family who are at the centre of a growing movement that aims to reclaim indigenous Irish identity, customs, religion and language. In a post-Catholic, neo-liberal Ireland, they are attempting to propagate new cultural and religious roots in tune with nature.
Taps into deep, Jungian terrors and turns confusion into an asset.
An out-of-luck woman decides to go back to her secluded home village in hopes of inheritance. Little does she know, the villagers have been waiting for her because she's got what they needed to lift off a plaguing curse.
A film and a story where you can't afford to be out of the conversation.
In 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio, Texas, but three and a half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in Spain with a shocking story of kidnap and torture... but all is not what it seems in this tale that is truly stranger than fiction.
Though he has a number of credits to his name, Nicholas Winter struggles with basic framing, resulting in a film full of unintentional visual distractions.
A troubled woman on the rebound gets in over her head with a seductive stranger before realising that all is not what it seems.
A beautifully shot, brilliantly acted incoherent mess, ranking up there with David Lynch’s Inland Empire as one of the most inscrutable films of the year.
Experimental biopic examining the shifting persona of Bob Dylan throughout his career.
Dragomirovic’s minimalistic setting captures the separation and struggle of Stevan and his loved ones.
Documentary about Stevan, a 60-year-old, former porn performer from Serbia, who is awaiting the outcome of a Kafkaesque trial process in a Maltese prison.
The sexual and gender politics that course through Almodovar's best work are in evidence here but there's a distinct lack of focus, leaving the film a somewhat forced flight of fancy.
When a plane is imperilled the passengers try to forget their plight but in the process discover the dangers of openness.
This is a tactile retelling, inviting us to imagine the sticky feel of Coca-Cola on hot skin in the sun or the heat of a sheepskin coat and the love that goes with it being passed from mum to daughter ahead of a trip abroad.
Brazil, 1971: a country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence.
The Inbetweeners is indisputably a very funny experience, with killer lines and creative insults coming thick and fast.
The exploits of four friends, who are socially only marginally above what one of them calls "the freaks", are presented as they grow from their late teen years into adults and as they go on their quest, usually unsuccessfully, for such grown up things as beer and sex.
The Inbetweeners' real strength (and reason for watching) remains the accuracy with which it paints teenage existence in British suburbia.
The exploits of four friends, who are socially only marginally above what one of them calls "the freaks", are presented as they grow from their late teen years into adults and as they go on their quest, usually unsuccessfully, for such grown up things as beer and sex.
Slightly more broad and over-the-top than before, but still well observed and one of the sharpest, funniest comedies on the box.
The exploits of four friends, who are socially only marginally above what one of them calls "the freaks", are presented as they grow from their late teen years into adults and as they go on their quest, usually unsuccessfully, for such grown up things as beer and sex.
You will no doubt need to see Inception more than once to appreciate every nuance of Nolan's carefully balanced ambiguities – but, more importantly, you will also want to.
DiCaprio's dream spy takes on the ultimate inside job.
What Laugier lacks as a writer he makes up for as a director, aided by some high quality costuming and set design.
A mother of two who inherits a house is confronted with murderous intruders on the first night in their new home and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later when the daughters reunite at the house, things get really strange.
Grounded in whimsy and wonder but willing to embrace a dark edge
On a remote Scottish isle, siblings Isla and Sandy hunt birds and talk to mythical beings while fighting off outsiders. Their lives change when Daniel, an awkward official, arrives to relocate them.
An odd mix of affectionate satire and jarringly brutal slapstick, the former more successful than the latter except for when an unhinged Jim Carrey is on the prowl.
A magician tries to salvage his flagging act with a daring stunt when facing off against a rival
Without Blanche Gardin, who carries the whole film, The Incredible Snow Woman would be a mix of generic dramedy and equally generic comedy that simply tries too hard to send quirky and “subversive” vibes.
A woman for whom an Arctic expedition holds no fear finds her personal life spiralling out of control.
Taute favours real stunts over CGI and puts his team through their paces with some serious challenges, adding a certain frisson to the film which just doesn’t exist when only pixels are at stake.
A fireman with an anguished past finds himself on the run for a crime he has no memory of.
There's a difficult place between homage and pastiche, between nostalgia and the new.
As the tentacles of an all-too-familiar evil return in the form of an old rival, Indy must don his hat and pick up his whip once more to make sure an ancient and powerful artefact doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
This second part of the Indiana Jones trilogy is undoubtedly its weakest link, yet it contains a number of classic scenes and some first class thrills and spills which will appeal to audiences of all ages.
Indiana Jones takes on Kali-worshiping cultists with the aid of a resourceful young boy and a highly strung nightclub singer.
Would have benefited hugely from either being condensed into a short film, where its tension would be allowed to pack more punch or further developed in terms of plotting so that the padding that is evident here could have been avoided.
A father and son become increasingly paranoid after a phone call tries to extort cash from them.
By being specific, the filmmakers put relatable "faces" to the bigger picture, showing rather than telling us exactly how the system 'works' for those who become trapped in it.
A rag-tag group of undocumented youth – Dreamers – deliberately get detained by Border Patrol in order to infiltrate a shadowy, for-profit detention centre.
A wistful hippy daydream which goes on to become very dark indeed, Llansó’s fable unfolds gracefully thanks to his command of the different genres that make up its constituent parts.
Three young women's week at the beach turns into a transhumanist mystery romp in one Estonian summer.
Soderbergh has great fun playing with the conventions of the conspiracy thriller.
A high-ranking executive contacts the FBI with details of price-fixing in the food industry. But their investigation reveals more than they bargained for.
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