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Amid an ongoing midlife crisis, Martin (Mads Mikkelsen), Tommy (Thomas Bo Larsen), Nikolaj, and Peter–a close-knit group of friends, colleagues, and high school teachers–find themselves faced with stale careers, failing marriages, and the cruel certainty of lost youth. Then, after a long, booze-fuelled night in town, the companions hit on the idea to keep themselves constantly semi-inebriated, inspired by an untried scientific theory claiming that when people maintain a golden 0.05% Blood Alcohol Concentration at all times, they are more relaxed, poised, and self-confident. So, without delay, the grizzled friends set rules and start observing the effects of sustaining that perfect, low-level buzz, one glass at a time. However, are they prepared for the dangers and the negative psychological impact of the intoxicating social experiment?
Year: 2021 (UK)
Certificate: 12A
Language: Danish, Swedish
Director: Thomas Vinterberg
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Length: 117 minutes
In remote Western Australia, two estranged brothers, Colin (Sam Neill) and Les (Michael Caton), are at war. Raising separate flocks of sheep descended from their family’s prized bloodline, the two men work side by side yet are worlds apart. When Les’s prize ram is diagnosed with a rare and lethal illness, authorities order a purge of every sheep in the valley. While Colin attempts to stealthily outwit the powers that be, Les opts for angry defiance. But can the warring brothers set aside their differences and have a chance to reunite their family, save their herd, and bring their community back together?
Year: 2021 (UK)
Certificate: 12A
Language:English
Director: Jeremy Sims
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Length: 118 minutes
Victor (Daniel Auteuil), a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine (Guillaume Canet), a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients a chance to dive back into the era of their choice. Victor then chose to relive the most memorable week of his life: the one where, 40 years earlier, he met the great love.
Year: 2019
Certificate: 15
Language:French, English, German
Director: Nicolas Bedos
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Length: 115 minutes
Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.
Year: 2021 (UK)
Certificate: 12A
Language: English
Director: Chloé Zhao
Genre: Drama
Length: 107 minutes
Yearning to own a small patch of land and be more than a chicken sexer, the ambitious paterfamilias, Jacob Yi, relocates his Korean-American family: sceptical wife, Monica, and their children, David and Anne, from California to 1980s rural Arkansas, to start afresh and capture the elusive American Dream. However, new beginnings are always challenging, and to find out what is best for the family, let alone start a 50-acre farm to grow and sell Korean fruits and vegetables, is easier said than done. But, amid sincere promises, cultural unease, fleeting hopes, and the ever-present threat of financial disaster, Jacob is convinced that he has found their own slice of Eden in the rich, dark soil of Arkansas. Can grandma Soonja’s humble but resilient minari help the Yi family figure out their place in the world?
Year: 2021 (UK)
Certificate: 12A
Language: Korean, English
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Genre: Drama
Length: 115 minutes
Pushing thirty, and defined by a hideous crime involving her bosom friend, Nina, emotionally scarred medical school dropout, Cassie, knows firsthand that some wounds never heal. Leading an uneventful existence, still living with her parents, waiting tables at a cheap coffee shop to earn a living, Cassie has found the perfect way to deal with the painful past. Dressed to kill, at night, Cassie frequents the local bars and nightclubs, pretending to be dead-drunk, utterly helpless and vulnerable. And, every week, lethally beautiful Cassie is on the prowl for all sorts of nocturnal predators and other wolves in sheep’s clothing, who are unaware that, sometimes, the hunter can become the prey. Then, Ryan, a kindly and caring old classmate who is the bee’s knees, enters the picture, and just like that, Cassie wants out. However, everybody knows that breaking bad habits is easier said than done. Could Ryan be the one?
Year: 2020
Certificate: 15
Language: English
Director: Emerald Fennell
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Length: 115 minutes
Two women, Janis (Penélope Cruz) and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn’t regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and traumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which by chance develops and complicates, and changes their lives in a decisive way.
Year: 2022 (UK)
Certificate: 15
Language: Spanish
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Genre: Drama
Length: 123 minutes
The chronicles of four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
Year: 2021 (UK)
Certificate: 15
Language: Norwegian
Director: Joachim Trier
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Length: 98 minutes
