The colours, like that coat, only serve to show Kyra in even paler relief, her invisibility coming to offer a welcoming cloak as she hatches a plan to avoid destitution.
A woman struggles to get by after the death of her mum.
Opting for the single-take scenes, usually in wider shots from a distance, signals artistic formal rigour.
Three Filipino siblings, all domestic workers in Italy, meet in the villa that one of the sisters has inherited. Shared memories and buried grievances come to the surface and put their fragile relationship to the test.
The deeper into the film we get, and the closer the realities of the war become to Unamuno, the more Amenábar and his co-writer Alejandro Hernández lean into the melodrama.
Drama about author Miguel de Unamuno and his stance towards the fascist coup d’état.
In addition to attacks from the outside, Shukla shows the erosion from within.
A turbulent newsroom drama which intimately chronicles the working days of broadcast journalist Ravish Kumar as he navigates a spiralling world of truth and disinformation.
Here you will find that combination of style, charisma and viciousness which made Lee unforgettable as Hammer’s Dracula, but several shades darker.
The ghost of a sadistic nobleman attempts to rekindle his romance with his terrorised, masochistic former lover, who is unwillingly engaged to his brother.
Commentators have dismissed Mackendrick's comedy about the islanders of Todday as stereotypical, patronising and tame, but it is outrageously funny and highly subversive.
Classic Ealing comedy where a group of Scottish islanders rescue and hide a shipwrecked cargo of whisky.
The absurdly marvellous timing Haden Church has with Labrèche when they discuss glass eyes or the future, makes Whitewash also wonderfully, desperately funny.
A man finds an encounter with a stranger changes his life forever.
Cinematographer Lukas Graf finds contrast between the nights spent in the yurt, filled with textured fabric and candlelight, and the daytime wide open, dusty landscapes of the steppe.
Saran and Naran are young women in their early twenties trying to start a new life in the steppe as nomads. Despite their close bond, both are troubled by a ghost from the past.
Once the explosions begin to kick in the film concentrates on Tatum and Foxx on the run - an easy-going and watchable pairing that displays real chemistry.
An off-duty police officer touring the White House with his daughter is the only man who can save the President when terrorists attack.
Are there conversations that make a positive difference? Almost certainly – and the interesting thing is that some of them also prove challenging to Rob.
A filmmaker sets out to walk 1,500 miles across the US wearing a Black Lives Matter t-shirt.
Baumbach shoots his disaster scenes, evacuations, and poisonous cloud rife with contradictions. The purple sky of doom is beautiful and strangely soothing.
An Eighties American family attempts to deal with the mundane conflicts of everyday life while grappling with the universal mysteries of love, death, and the possibility of happiness in an uncertain world.
Court is diligent in his management of movement, with the most vulnerable characters almost static unless physically moved by others, as if they were mere props.
A man hired to photograph a wedding at an estate seized from indigenous people becomes obsessed with the bride to be after discovering she is underage.
The slippery nature of the morality on show coupled with the shifting sands of the narrative makes this an uneasy watch - yet it is also a beautiful and masterfully constructed film.
Tensions in a German town on the eve of the First World War.
Due to his lower caste position, Balram has been conditioned since birth to obey, even when we can see it is tearing him up inside - and Gourav does an excellent job of showing how this pushes him to the brink of madness.
A man recalls his rise from poverty in an Indian village to being a successful entrepreneur.
A White, White Day mingles some very dark dramatic moments with the comedy of the absurd.
An off-duty police chief begins to suspect a local man to have had an affair with his wife, who has recently died in a car accident. Gradually his obsession for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones.
Goldberg doesn’t speculate, but provides enough glimpses into the country’s troubled history to worry even those who know little of it from elsewhere.
A deep dive into the decades-long quest by America's conservative political machine to amass power by exploiting racial fault lines and stoking narratives of white victimisation.
This psychological willingness to go along with an idea, however ludicrous, in order to avoid confrontation is likely to strike a chord with many in other countries currently grappling with how to deal with the rise of extremism.
A stylised portrait of an authentic Czech neo-Nazi, who hates his life but doesn’t know what to change.
Starting as a refined drama about a broken Tunisian family, the narrative becomes a complex meditation on attachment and motherhood, all encompassed by a remarkable female lead.
Aïcha longs for the return of her oldest sons, Mehdi and Amine, who abandoned the household in search of war. Upon Mehdi's return, a looming darkness surfaces.
Adam and Margo's housewarming party is a success. One couple, who claim to be wealthy neighbours, linger afterwards. As one nightcap leads to another, Adam and Margo suspect their new friends are duplicitous strangers.
Grossman compares the pictures and footage produced by the Nazis with that preserved in the archive, showing how a change in perspective alters the way the viewer understands the horrors depicted in both.
The story of Emanuel Ringelblum and the Oyneg Shabes Archive, which preserved the stories of Jews who lived and died in the Warsaw ghetto.
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