During the early years of German occupation of France, romance blooms between Lucile Angellier, a French villager, and Bruno von Falk, a German officer.
Having been told little about the nature of the enemy, SUM1 jumps at every unfamiliar sound or movement, and we are invited to do likewise.
A young soldier who has never left the safety of the militarised underground warrens before is assigned to a solitary lookout post in the forest where the silence begins to scare him and prompts rumination about the real nature of the enemy.
Though the events unfold forward, the feel of Summertime is that of a pleasantly painful memory recalled backwards, clutching you emotionally as if you were looking at a faded photo album.
Drama about social change in France in the early 1970s.
Superficially Summer Hours is an examination of the emotional fallout from the death of a loved mother, but digging deeper reveals insightful comment on nostalgia, mortality, property and family.
Drama about a priceless art collection and a family's decision about how best to use it, for both memory and intrinsic worth.
At its best this film is a gripping look at what drives people to brave the heights, although it would have benefited from taking a more linear approach to its undoubtedly well-researched material.
Documentary exploration of a deadly attempt to ascend K2.
While the craft remains faultless, the effect becomes like walking through a beautiful gallery, with each painting looking lovely but with little connection to the one before or after.
The daughter of a Scottish farmer comes of age in the early 1900s.
Mid-life crisis has rarely felt so queasy as it does in Argyris Papadimitropoulos' character study, which features humour so dark you can feel it closing in around you.
A doctor becomes obsessed with a much younger tourist.
Superhero Movie follows almost exactly in the footsteps of its forebears, the Scary Movie films; this time the parody is aimed at the bloated belly of comic book hero movies.
The continuity is shaky (what do you expect?), but the new material is more adult, less camp and with a devotion to character and logic that Lester’s just didn’t have.
Reworked version of Superman II, featuring footage origianlly relegated to the cutting room floor.
Through the use of quirky art work, animation, a barrage of facts and figures, plus an incredibly dry wit, Spurlock shines a light on America's attitudes to weight gain.
Documentary filmmaker acts as guinea pig in fast food experiment.
Hains is impressive in getting past the twin barriers of his prettiness and his character's distanced nature, persuading viewers to identify with him and care about his fate.
A young man with no family struggles to find his place in the world.
Surge leaves his home town, Big City, to pursue his arch enemy headed to Las Vegas to find mysterious crystals key to the diabolical plan of an even greater super villain, which erupts in a battle on the Hoover Dam and back in Big City.
It would be overly enthusiastic to say that Survival is a true return to form after the relative misfire of Diary, but it is difficult to deny that Survival is a pretty good piece of genre filmmaking.
This offbeat comedy is a genuine step forward in the Scrooge-U-Like repro market.
A highflying corporate executive finds himself lonely and confused at Christmas, so decides to relive his youth with a completely random suburban family.
When the film's romantic and more cathartic strands start to emerge half way through, it nestles into the perfect smug of the sentimental and jagged edges the film previously creates for itself.
The arrival of matching letters from their estranged mother Georgia turns the worlds of sisters Heidi and Rose upside down.
Echoing Homer's Odyssey and also the procession of the Olympic torch, Swandown happens in fits and starts, sometimes achingly slow, intermittently brilliant.
A documentary maker and a historian seek to uncover England's secrets as they travel through its waterways in a swan-shaped pedalo.
