Members’ Rating: 64% Stephen Frears brings his droll and witty touch of real life to the Posy Simmonds’ comic strip of sexy rural shenanigans. It is a mad and undoubtedly entertaining bucolic romp. UK, 2010, Stephen Frears. Comedy/Drama/Romance, 1hr 47mins...
Members’ Rating: 76% Michael Haneke’s Palme d’Or winner is a precise mesmerising work surveying the life of a protestant German village over the months in 1913 when a series of disquieting events occur which upsets all the villagers. Germany/Austria/France/Italy/Canada, 2009,...
Members’ Rating: 36% This is a sharp comedy about a nail-biting back-stabbing fortnight in the world of a Hollywood director besieged by everyone who demand his attention for all sorts of selfish reasons. Starring Robert De Niro and Sean Penn....
Members’ Rating: 62% (Original title: Le Père de Mes Enfants) This film is about coping, its focus is practical and unsentimental. It is a portrait of a charismatic workaholic film producer whose company is deeply in debt. France/Germany/Belgium, 2009, Mia...
Members’ Rating: 78% Mike Leigh at his confidant best. A deeply compassionate film that explores a year in the life of a contented professional couple. Age, happiness and the passing of time are its themes. Starring Ruth Sheen and Jim...
Members’ Rating: 62% Acclaimed director Hirokazu Kore-eda weaves together with great subtlety an intricate and nuanced family drama. Told with a measured pace it gently captures the tensions, silly misunderstanding, love and regrets presents in all families. Japan, 2008, Hirokazu...
(Original title: Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis) Members’ Rating: 84% “A French public servant from Provence is banished to the far North. Strongly prejudiced against this cold and inhospitable place, he leaves his family behind to relocate temporarily there, with the...
Members’ Rating: 39% (Original title: Copie Conforme) A gallery owner in Tuscany (played by Juliette Binoche) attracts the attention of an English author at a book-signing and they spend the day together – but do they already know each other?...
Members’ Rating: 97% – our favourite film of the season and the joint-highest rated film since ratings began, shared with The World’s Fastest Indian! The former conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, demoted to cleaner by the communist regime for employing...
Members’ Rating: 80% Richard Linklater’s film is a portrait of a 1930s theatrical troupe which includes the young Orson Welles as one of its actors. It has a warm lived-in feel, but there is a hard-bitten realism behind the sweetness....
