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Based on Peter Rock's novel 'My Abandonment', 'Leave No Trace' revolves around a teenage girl (Thomasin McKenzie) and her father (Ben Foster) who have lived undetected for years in Forest Park, a vast wood on the edge of Portland, Oregon. A chance encounter leads to their discovery and removal from the park and into the charge of a social service agency. They try to adapt to their new surroundings until a sudden decision sets them on a perilous journey into the wilderness seeking complete independence and forcing them to confront their conflicting desire to be part of a community or a fierce need to live apart. - Director:
- Debra Granik
- Cast:
- Thomasin McKenzie-Harcourt, Ben Foster, Jeffery Rifflard
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The Headless Woman (2008)La Mujer Sin Cabeza
Lucrecia Martel is now recognised as one of the leading new film-makers in the world. This mystery is her third feature, and was released to huge acclaim. Driving in the country Veronica is distracted and apparently hits something. Disturbed, she does not investigate but drives off. After the accident she becomes disconnected from her daily life. She Eventually tells her husband - they return to the scene and only find a dead dog. But then news emerges that a child has disappeared. Her family joins to erase all traces of the accident ever having occurred. - Director:
- Lucrecia Martel
- Cast:
- María Onetto, Claudia Cantero, César Bordón
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The Guardians (2017)Les Gardiennes
France 1915. The impact of the First World War is being felt across Europe as conscription forces the men to leave their homes for the battlefield. Hortense, realising she has to hold up her family's farm with less than half the labour force hires a helping hand, Francine. The young woman works hard and, with the arrival of Hortense's son Georges, finally feels she has a place she can call home. As the battle rages on, these women unite to keep both their family and society from collapsing. - Director:
- Xavier Beauvois
- Cast:
- Nathalie Baye, Laura Smet, Iris Bry
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La Ronde (1950)Roundabout
Starring Simone Signoret, Simone Simon and Anton Walbrook as the enigmatic master of ceremonies who guides us through a series of amorous encounters in 1900's Vienna. A soldier (Serge Reggiani) meets an eager young lady of the night and later has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid who then has an affair with the young master of the house. The young man then seduces a married woman and on and on spins on the gay carousel of romantic life... - Director:
- Max Ophüls
- Cast:
- Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani
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My 20th Century (1988)Az én XX. századom
Ildiko Enyedi's acclaimed film tells the tale of identical twins Dora (Dorota Segda) and Lili (also Dorota Segda), born in Budapest at the very moment that Edison's wondrous electric light-bulb is unveiled to the world. Separated in childhood, the sisters' lives follow radically different paths, until New Year's Eve 1899, when they meet again on the Orient Express...This dazzling film portrays the birth of modernism, a daring world of revolutionary ideas and inventions that promised enchantment and inspired wonder. Shot in luminous monochrome, the film echoes the magic and exuberance of early cinema. Celebrating the enthralling technological marvels as well as the political and sexual upheavals of the time, this film reclaims the birth of the twentieth century as a miraculous moment to be alive. - Director:
- Ildikó Enyedi
- Cast:
- Dorota Segda, Oleg Yankovskiy, Paulus Manker
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As devout Jehova's Witnesses, sisters Alex (Molly Wright) and Luisa (Sacha Parkinson) and their mother, Ivanna (Siobhan Finneran), are united in The Truth. When Luisa starts to question the advice of the Elders, she makes a life-altering transgression that threatens to expel her from the congregation. Unless Ivanna and Alex can persuade her to return, they must shun her completely. The challenge becomes more painful when their family is faced with another heartbreaking test of faith. - Director:
- Daniel Kokotajlo
- Cast:
- Siobhan Finneran, Robert Emms, Sacha Parkinson
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Faces Places (2017)Visages, Villages
Iconic film maker Agnes Varda and photographer JR share a passion for images and how they're created, displayed and shared; Varda through cinema. JR through his emotionally arrested outdoor installations. Inspired by this connection, they set out in JR's photo booth-enhanced truck, exploring the villages and small towns of rural France and meeting its humble residents - all the while creating large-scale portraits plastered across unconventional locations. What follows is a heart-warming insight into unnamed communities, documented here in Varda's typically playful and tender manner. A Cannes Film Festival award-winner and Oscar nominee, 'Faces Places' is a deeply charming and life-affirming look at not only the subtle power of community, but the inspiration that comes from the most cross-generational of friendships. - Director:
- Jr.
- Cast:
- Agnès Varda, Jr., Jeannine Carpentier
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On a wintry day, a young man collapses and dies while jogging in the park. At that same moment, a baby is born. Maverick filmmaker Jonathan Glazer affirms the promise of his brilliant debut, Sexy Beast, with his new film Birth, teaming with Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman for a metaphysical love story that explores the space between what we know and what we feel. Kidman stars as Anna, a delicate young widow who is on the verge of a new life when a solemn little boy appears, claiming to be the reincarnation of her dead husband. - Director:
- Jonathan Glazer
- Cast:
- Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Lauren Bacall
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The Holy Girl (2004)La Nina Santa
Lucrecia Martel's outstanding new film is an enigmatic and absorbing tale about the temptation of good and the evil it causes. Sixteen year old schoolgirl Amalia (Maria Alche) lives with her divorcee mother, the manager of a shabby hotel which is hosting a medical conference. When a stranger makes a crude pass at her in a crowded street, Amalia later discovers that it was in fact one of the distinguished conference attendees, Dr Jano (Carlos Belloso). Consumed by the heady combination of her fervent religious education and burgeoning sexuality, Amalia resolves to save the respected doctor from sin, a mission that brings both their works to the brink of collapse. - Director:
- Lucrecia Martel
- Cast:
- Mercedes Morán, Carlos Belloso, Alejandro Urdapilleta
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The Gleaners and I (2000)Les Glaneurs Et La Glaneuse
In 2000 Agnes Varda travelled the France countryside and the markets of Paris to the study the lives of a collection of foragers and scavengers called The Gleaners. This remarkable collection of people insist of making use of materials that the public have so easily discarded. Varda admits to being a gleaner of sorts herself, which gives this honest and intriguing documentary a very special connection. - Director:
- Agnès Varda
- Cast:
- François Wertheimer, Agnès Varda, Bodan Litnanski
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Zama (Daniel Giménez Cacho), an officer of the Spanish Crown born in South America, waits for a letter from the King granting him a transfer to a better place. His situation is delicate. He is forced to accept submissively every task entrusted to him by successive Governors who come and go as he stays behind. The years go by and the letter from the King never arrives. When Zama notices everything is lost, he joins a party of soldiers that go after a dangerous bandit. - Director:
- Lucrecia Martel
- Cast:
- Daniel Giménez Cacho, Lola Dueñas, Matheus Nachtergaele
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What do the most ravishingly beautiful actress of the 1930's and 40's and the inventor whose concepts were the basis of cell phone and bluetooth technology have in common? They are both Hedy Lamarr, the glamour icon whose ravishing visage was the inspiration for 'Snow White' and 'Catwoman' and a technological trailblazer who perfected a radio system to throw Nazi torpedoes off course during WWII. Weaving interviews and clips with never-before-heard audio tapes of Hedy speaking on the record about her incredible life - from her beginnings as an Austrian-Jewish emigre to her scandalous nude scene in the 1933 film 'Ecstasy' to her glittering Hollywood life to her ground-breaking, but completely uncredited inventions - 'Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story' brings to light the story of an unusual and accomplished woman, spurned as too beautiful to be smart, but a role model to this day. - Director:
- Alexandra Dean
- Cast:
- Nino Amareno, Charles Amirkhanian, Jeanine Basinger
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The House with Laughing Windows (1976)La casa dalle finestre che ridono
Stefano (Lino Capolicchio), an art restorer, is commissioned on the recommendation of a friend to work on a bizarre, ghoulish fresco of San Sebastian hanging in the church of a sleepy village. The disturbing image was painted by a deranged local artist famed for his habit of depicting his subjects in the last throes of death. As time passes in the rural outback the strangeness of the locals and a building sense of dread begin to haunt Stefano, who nevertheless embarks on an affair with the supply teacher at the local school. Although the village folk are friendly enough on the surface, things are not entirely as they appear and Stefano feels a rising sense of unease as tales of murder and savage behaviour begin to emerge. - Director:
- Pupi Avati
- Cast:
- Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina
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The Nun (1966)La religieuse
In 18th century France, Suzanne Simonin (Anna Karina) is locked in a convent against her will. She finds for a while some comfort with the Mother Superior, but then she dies and is replaced by a sadistic woman who persecutes Suzanne. Suzanne becomes determined to fight for her freedom and the right to renounce her vows, but comes up against the full might of the Church. - Director:
- Jacques Rivette
- Cast:
- Anna Karina, Liselotte Pulver, Micheline Presle
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Inferno (2009)L'enfer d'Henri-Georges Clouzot / Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot chose Romy Schneider and Serge Reggiani, as the lead actors of L'Enfer (Inferno). This enigmatic and original project, about a hotel manager who becomes possessed by the demons of jealousy, was given an unlimited budget and touted to be the cinematographic event of the decade. However, three weeks into filming, drama unfolds and the project was aborted. The images, said to be incredible, were never shown. Decades later, having uncovered some of the original rushes and screen tests, directors Serge Bromberg and Ruxandra Medrea have succeeded in recreating a new film from the remnants and brought it to fruition. Part original, part documentary and part reconstruction, Henri-Georges Clouzot's 'Inferno' shows L'Enfer as it was shot, and tells the emotional story of an ill-fated film project, and of Henri-Georges Clouzot, who had been given free rein to his filmmaking genius. - Director:
- Serge Bromberg
- Cast:
- Romy Schneider, Serge Bromberg, Bérénice Bejo
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