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Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday
It’s August and M.
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Volver
Revolving around an eccentric family of women from a wind-swept region south of Madrid, Cruz stars as Raimunda, a working-class woman forced to go to great lengths to protect her 14-year-old daughter Paula.
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Ping Pong
A comedy drama about two boys obsessed with ping pong not an obvious first film choice for a director but the result is an exhilarating, manga-influenced film, as much about Japanese society, winning, losing and teenage friendship as table tennis.
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Aprile
Morreti casts himself, wife and friends in a documentary lampoon about Italian politics.
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The General
The partnership between Bruckman and Keaton created a cinematic masterpiece.
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Lars and the Real Girl
Lars (Ryan Gosling) lives in a cabin behind his brother’s house.
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Mid-August Lunch
Middle-aged Giovanni is down on his luck.
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Mad Sad & Bad
This black comedy about a truly dysfunctional middle class British Asian family unfolds through a series of flashbacks.
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Departures
In 2009 this moving but often humorous film cleaned up at the Japanese Academy Awards and won Japan the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
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Tamara Drewe
Down in Dorset the veneer of bucolic bliss is about to be disrupted by the arrival of Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arterton – Clash of the Titans, The Disappearance of Alice Creed).










