Khlebnikov and Meschchaninova capture the essence of long-term relationships at the point when the firework bursts of highs and lows have been replaced by the dripping tap of minor annoyances that are becoming harder to ignore.
A paramedic and a junior doctor find themselves on the verge of a break-up.
(Country: Russia, Finland, Germany; Year: 2017; Director: Boris Khlebnikov; Writer: Boris Khlebnikov, Natalya Meshchaninova; Stars: Galina Averyanova, Irina Gorbacheva, Polina Ilyukhina, Vladimir Kapustin, Anna Kotova, Ivan Kudashov, Maksim Lagashkin, Evgeniy Muravin, Sergey Nasedkin, Tatyana Rasskazova, Aleksandr Samoylenko, Nikolay Shrayber, Albina Tikhanova, Sergey Udovik, Anna Ukolova)
After a teenager falls pregnant, her half-sister calls their long-absent mother, sparking trouble.
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2017; Director: Michel Franco; Writer: Michel Franco; Stars: Emma Suárez, Hernán Mendoza, Joanna Larequi, Enrique Arrizon, Ivan Cortes)
Bank Of Broken Hearts
(Kirik Kalpler Bankasi)
Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers get a Turkish reimagining.
(Country: Turkey; Year: 2017; Director: Onur Ünlü; Writer: Onur Ünlü based on William Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet; Stars: Haluk Bilginer, Serkan Keskin, Hazal Kaya, Taner Ölmez, Tansu Biçer, Osman Sonant, Fatih Artman, Metin Akdülger, Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan, Senay Gürler, Kadir Çermik, Öner Erkan, Mehmet Yilmaz Ak, Ahmet Kaynak, Diren Polatogullari)
Behind The Column
A neglected actor who turns from being the walk-on man forever to the leading stage director of a theatre. From now on he has to fight not only for his own dreams but also for his crew.
(Country: Hungary; Year: 2017; Director: Csaba Vékes; Writer: Csaba Vékes; Stars: Gergely Bánki, Zoltán Bezerédi, Mercédesz Kalocsai, Tamás Mohai, Tünde Murányi, Ervin Nagy, Ilona Nagy, Szabolcs Ruszina, Dénes Ujlaky, Gábor Ónodi)
Saturday Night Live regular Mooney, who has a twinkly mischievousness and comic timing reminiscent of a young Gene Wilder, plays James as naive, but never stupid.
Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Dave McCary; Writer: Kevin Costello, Kevin Costello, Kyle Mooney, Kyle Mooney; Stars: Kyle Mooney, Claire Danes, Mark Hamill, Greg Kinnear, Matt Walsh, Michaela Watkins)
Koolhoven wants all voyeurism of an exploitation flick while still expecting us to take his artistry seriously, and it's an unholy mix.
Revenge tale about a mute midwife in the American West.
(Country: Netherlands, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden, UK; Year: 2016; Director: Martin Koolhoven; Writer: Martin Koolhoven, Martin Koolhoven; Stars: Kit Harington, Dakota Fanning, Carice van Houten, Guy Pearce, Paul Anderson, Emilia Jones, Carla Juri, William Houston, Bill Tangradi, Naomi Battrick, Ivy George, Jack Roth, Vera Vitali, Justin Salinger, Frederick Schmidt)
It is fundamentally a film about the workings of infatuation with a charmed fever that contaminates its characters.
First love blooms over a long, hot summer for a teenager in Italy.
(Country: Italy, France, US, Brazil; Year: 2017; Director: Luca Guadagnino; Writer: James Ivory, based on the book by André Aciman; Stars: Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, Michael Stuhlbarg, Amira Casar, Esther Garrel, Victoire Du Bois)
The sense of poise created, as people move through spaces or talk back and forth, objects often leaving the frame in one direction as another enters from the opposite side, achieves a soothing rhythm.
Two people meet by chance and forge a connection.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Kogonada; Writer: Kogonada; Stars: Haley Lu Richardson, John Cho, Rory Culkin, Parker Posey, Michelle Forbes, Jim Dougherty, William Willet, Wynn Reichert)
Giulio, a seventeen-year-old from a well-to-do family, is sent to a boarding school. In this isolated place in the Alps, where iron-clad rules limit all contact with the outside, he makes friends with Edoardo, and the two begin to embark on night time adventures.
(Country: Italy; Year: 2016; Director: Andrea De Sica; Writer: Andrea De Sica, Mariano Di Nardo, Gloria Malatesta; Stars: Vincenzo Crea, Fabrizio Rongione, Ludovico Succio, Yuliia Sobol, Luigi Bignone, Pietro Monfreda, Dario Cantarelli, Michael Bernhard Plattner)
Debut feature director Francis Lee grew up on a Yorkshire farm and it shows in every inch of this film.
Young sheep farmer Johnny numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker offers the promise of something else.
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Francis Lee; Writer: Francis Lee; Stars: Josh O'Connor, Alec Secareanu, Gemma Jones, Ian Hart)
Review preview for Jeannette: The Childhood Of Joan Of Arc
Eternal greatness encounters sacrifice and the film dares to musically tackle questions of complicity in evil. Péguy's socialism, patriotism, and Catholicism mix well with the eager young actors. This is unlike any film you have ever seen.
Musical about the French heroine.
(Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Bruno Dumont; Writer: Bruno Dumont, based on the play by Charles Péguy; Stars: Lise Leplat Prudhomme, Jeanne Voisin, Lucile Gauthier, Victoria Lefebvre, Aline Charles, Elise Charles, Anaïs Rivière, Gery De Poorter, Régine Delalin, Nicolas Leclaire)
Just when you think you know this story, Oldroyd and Birch begin to show you that you don't.
A woman sold into a loveless marriage develops a mind for murder after starting an affair.
(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: William Oldroyd; Writer: Alice Birch, based on the novel by Nikolai Leskov; Stars: Florence Pugh, Christopher Fairbank, Cosmo Jarvis, Naomi Ackie, Paul Hilton, Golda Rosheuvel, Anton Palmer)
The splendour of the artwork is not matched by the tale being told, which is of the paint-by-numbers variety.
The life and mysterious death of Vincent Van Gogh.
(Country: UK, Poland; Year: 2017; Director: Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman; Writer: Jacek Dehnel, Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman; Stars: Helen McCrory, Jerome Flynn, Saoirse Ronan, Aidan Turner, Chris O'Dowd, Eleanor Tomlinson, Douglas Booth, Holly Earl, Robert Gulaczyk, John Sessions, James Greene, Richard Banks, Bill Thomas, Josh Burdett, Martin Herdman)
In the realm of the insane reason has no place. Anything is possible. Even the impossible
Uninvited guests threaten a couple's relationship.
(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Darren Aronofsky; Writer: Darren Aronofsky; Stars: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, Stephen McHattie, Kristen Wiig, Stefan Simchowitz, Jovan Adepo, Robert Higden, Amanda Warren, Eric Davis, Marcia Jean Kurtz, Mizinga Mwinga)
One night, a group of workers realizes that the administration is stealing machines and raw materials from their own factory, forcing the staff to take a stand.
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2017; Director: Pedro Pinho; Writer: Tiago Hespanha, Luisa Homem, Leonor Noivo, Pedro Pinho, Jorge Silva Melo; Stars: Carla Galvão, Dinis Gomes, Américo Silva, José Smith Vargas)
Purgatoryo
The story of Ilyong, a recently-dead man, killed by the police and the seedy funeral home where his body is sent.
(Country: Philippines; Year: 2016; Director: Roderick Cabrido; Writer: Joseph Israel Laban, Denise O'Hara; Stars: Ernani L. Antonio, Bernardo Bernardo, Chrome Prince Cosio, Elora Españo, Rolando Inocencio, Kristoffer King, Mara Lopez, Jess Mendoza, Japo Parcero, Samuel Quintana, Che Ramos, Arnold Reyes, Lovely Tan, Lou Veloso)
It quite subtly toys with the iconography of the genre - poking at the outlying parts of it, the parts dealing with "foreigness" and "home" rather than the more dependable elements of right and wrong.
A group of German construction workers on a job in Bulgaria begin to compete for the approval of the locals.
