(Original title: La tourneuse de pages) Members’ Rating: 79% This stylish, subtle and highly-assured film concerns a piano student whose ambitions are dashed when distracted by the behaviour of a test juror. Years later she has the chance to take...
(Original title: Efter brylluppet) Members’ Rating: 94% – our joint favourite film of the season, with Days Of Glory A Copenhagen billionaire demands a rendezvous in Denmark with a Mumbai-based aid worker as the condition for a massive donation to...
(Original title: Il caimano) Members’ Rating: 55% Nanni Moretti’s new feature is a striking combination of political satire as well as a comic look at aspects of the Italian film industry – offering scathing insights into Berlusconi’s controversial premiership. Moretti’s...
Members’ Rating: 74% After a lifetime in film, director Robert Altman bows out gracefully with a warm backstage comedy, centred on Garrison Keillor’s live radio show. This film is coloured by deaths and farewells, and enhanced by a star cast...
(Original title: Indigènes) Members’ Rating: 94% – our joint favourite film of the season, with After The Wedding Rachid Bouchareb’s epic war movie highlights the important part Arab and North African troops played in the liberation of France, and their...
(Original title: El abrazo partido) Members’ Rating: 57% Set in a Buenos Aires galleria, this superb comedy places David, a Jewish shopkeeper, at the centre of a garrulous group of fellow store owners who reveal facts to him about the...
(Original title: Iklimler) Members’ Rating: 42% Nuri Ceylan’s Climates examines three seasons in the life of lecturer and photographer Isa, and traces the break-up of his relationship with his girlfriend Bahar. It’s a tale of what it is like to...
(Original title: Nuovomondo) Members’ Rating: 63% A sweeping, handsomely staged three-part saga of an Italian emigrant family and their voyage from Italy to America via Ellis Island. Golden Door is a happy throwback to the heyday of European art cinema....
(Original title: Ne le dis à personne) Members’ Rating: 80% A superior twisty-turny thriller in which a man’s life is turned upside-down and buried secrets are unearthed, when he discovers that his murdered wife may still be alive. The film’s...
Members’ Rating: 75% Mature, brooding ambitious thriller from Ray Lawrence (Lantana) combining a stately style with powerful acting. The dense satisfying tale uses the discovery of a dead Aboriginal body in the river to dredge up issues of race, gender...
