Seduction and intimacy seem to be desirable and repulsive at the same time in this key work of the Greek Weird Wave as the greyish, emotionless world of a young woman and her dying father is depicted with eccentricity.
At times amusing and heartfelt, this gentle and comforting Sundance documentary sees local government agents tasked with surveying the Bhutanese on their ‘Happiness Index’.
An African hippo is flown to South America in this thoughtful allegory of forced capture, exploitation and fearmongering, with its nebulous cinematic form and unconventional ‘myth-telling’ likely to impress adventurous cinephiles.
Backed by a sublime piano score by Ryuichi Sakamoto, this Murakami adaptation about an older man with chronic loneliness and his fashion-obsessed wife lulls viewers into a quiet trance.
Dutt’s best-known work is a musical-drama with sweeping character arcs as a struggling poet is outcast and exploited by society, leading him into a downward spiral towards oblivion.
Nothing special from a storytelling standpoint, but its tick-the-boxes sincerity gives this Bob Dylan biopic the necessary foundation for a trio of exceptional Oscar-nominated performances from Timothee Chalamet, Monica Barbaro and Edward Norton.
Collaboration and exploitation are two sides of the same coin in this ambitious epic-cum-morality tale about the promise and rottenness of the American Dream, from the perspective of a Hungarian-Jewish architect who tries to build a life of dignity in the States.
Works as a drinking game ‘midnight B-movie’ for cultists, this teenage-girls-visit-haunted-house psychedelic head trip entertains with its over-the-top and bewildering horror-comedy and creative special effects.
Featuring an exceptional performance by Kieran Culkin, Eisenberg writes, produces, directs and stars in this unassuming comedy-drama that was shot primarily in Poland, about two incompatible Jewish cousins on a Holocaust tour to remember their late grandmother.
This neo-noir thriller is a terrific feature debut by the Wachowskis, with its careening twists and turns, and upending of gender codes, as two women must work out a survival plan after an opportunistic ‘heist’ gone wrong.
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