Julie, 30, flirted with psychology and photography before settling on writing. She has a serious boyfriend named Aksel, a graphic novelist 10 years her senior. Their chemistry is undeniable . . . until she meets Elvind and falls madly in love. Through 12 chapters by turns playful and serious, Joachim Trier offers a journey through […]
New 4K Restoration Thelma and Louise – a bored housewife and a straight-laced waitress at a coffee shop – are best friends who are sick of what they’ve settled for. Deciding to escape the tedium of their everyday lives, the pair sneak off in Louise’s ’66 T-bird convertible for a three-day fishing trip with no […]
*Presented in collaboration with le Festival du nouveau cinéma (FNC)* LAST SCREENING July 25: Original version with French subtitles Heshmat is a model husband and father. Pouya is a soldier, patiently awaiting orders. Java slips away from his military service to visit his girlfriend. Bahram goes hunting with his niece, who’s visiting from abroad. All […]
PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON DOUBLE FEATURE A sprawling epic of family, faith, power and oil, THERE WILL BE BLOOD is set on the incendiary frontier of California’s turn-of-the-century petroleum boom. The story chronicles the life and times of one Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), who transforms himself from a down-and-out silver miner raising a son on his […]
The contemporary American auteur Michael Mann’s bold artistic sensibility was already fully formed when he burst out of the gate with Thief, his debut feature. James Caan stars, in one of his most riveting performances, as a no-nonsense ex-con safecracker planning to leave the criminal world behind after one final diamond heist—but he discovers that […]
February 10 screening with director Miryam Charles in attendance Bridgeport, January 17, 2008. A teenage girl is found hanged in her room. While everything points to suicide, the autopsy report reveals something else. Ten years later, the director and cousin of the teenager examine the past causes and future consequences of this unsolved crime. Like […]
Presented in collaboration with the FNC Old widow Mantoa lives in the small village of Nasaretha in South Africa. When her son dies in an accident, she decides to make arrangements for her own funeral, but then learns that a dam project will soon flood her land, forcing all the residents to resettle in the […]
Mikhaël Hers double bill: discover director’s The Passengers of the Night In high summer, Sasha, 30, dies suddenly. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their grief and the burden of their loss in Berlin, Paris and New York. *International Film Festival Rotterdam 2016