Decision to Leave (2022)
★★★★★
Cannes-award-winning unforgettable Decision to Leave directed with pyrotechnical flair by Park Chan-wook is a haunting Korean neo-noir and yet so much more.
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BFI LFF 2021: Hit the Road (Jaddeh Khaki) (2021)
★★★★☆
In Hit the Road by Panah Panahi at the BFI LFF an Iranian family say so much and yet leave so much unsaid.
BFI LFF 2021: Drive My Car
★★★★☆
Drive My Car is directed with a delicate, luminous touch by Ryusuke Hamaguchi.
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Day 11
★★★★☆
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Day 11
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 10
★★★★★
Cannes 2021 Day 10: Les Olympiades, Memoria, France./
Cannes Film Festival 2021: Day 6
★★★★★
Cannes Film Festival 2021 Day 6
Ava (2017)
★★★★☆
Ava is an unforgiving, unforgettable coming-of-age film about a teenage girl’s loss of freedom in Iran from a compelling new filmmaker, Sadaf Foroughi.
Parasite (2019) Black and white version – in cinemas and on demand
★★★★☆
Boon Joon-Ho’s Palme d’Or-winning masterpiece Parasite returns in a special black-and-white version exclusively at Curzon Mayfair and Home Cinema, before hitting more available cinemas .
The Lunchbox (2013) – ON DEMAND
★★★★☆
In Mumbai, in Ritesh Batria’s The Lunchbox, a typical lunchbox accidentally delivered to the wrong person leads to a touching romance by correspondence between two lonely people.
The Truth (2019) – ON DEMAND
★★★★☆
Hirokazu Koreeda turns to Europe for a French-language family drama with comic undertones that spans the generations in The Truth.
And Then We Danced (2019)
★★★★☆
A deeply physical coming-of-age gay romance in the dance world, And Then We Danced directed by Levan Akin is an uplifting and inspiring feature about the path to queer liberation.
First Love (Hatsukoi) (2019)
★★★★☆
Deceptively titled First Love is Takeshi Miike’s irresistibly anarchic yakuza noir, stuffed with gratuitous violence, comedy, romance and severed heads.
Parasite (Gisaengchung) (2019)
Boon Joon-Ho‘s Palme d’Or-winning masterpiece Parasite is an unforgettable, genre-bending black comedy about social status, class and inequality, aspiration and materialism.
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Di Qiu Zui Hou De Ye Wan) (2018)
★★★★☆
Long Day’s Journey Into Night is memorable, mesmeric virtuoso filmmaking by Gan Bi, creating a universe where time moves sinuously.