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Summer with Monika
“One of Bergman’s very best films and perhaps his most influential.” Richard Brody, New Yorker A young couple flee Stockholm in a boat to spend an idyllic summer on an island. A key work by writer and director Ingmar Bergman, the film was initially notorious for a nude scene that helped establish Sweden’s reputation as…
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If Only I Could Hibernate
“The film shows the two conflicting forces: the escape impetus and the loyalty impetus.” Peter Bradshaw, Guardian A Mongolian-set drama about a teenager who must balance the demands of his dysfunctional family and the possibilities opened up by academic success. “[The film] brings an earthy, lived-in authenticity to a premise that, in other hands, could…
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Perfect Days
“Seeing life through Hirayama’s eyes you are reminded of how important it is to look around you and see the beauty in the everyday.” Dominic Hayes, Mancunion Hirayama, played by Koji Yakusho, a middle-aged toilet cleaner in Tokyo, enjoys a rich interior life through reading, photography and classic rock cassette tapes. Wim Wenders’ film artfully…
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The Damned Don’t Cry
“[A] haunting, peculiar and often expressly queer story of social isolation and outsider survival.” Guy Lodge, Variety A rootless mother and teenage son struggle to get by in an inhospitable society, drifting from one Moroccan town to another, bound by a shameful secret and forced by circumstance into selling themselves. “The story fills with careens…
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