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Emilia Perez and The Friend
Afternoons Of Solitude (Tardes de soledad) (Country: France, Portugal, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Albert Serra; Writer: Albert Serra; Stars: Pablo Aguado, Andrés Roca Rey)
The life of the bullfighter Andrés Roca Rey during a day of bullfighting, from the moment he dresses up to the moment he undresses.
Elton John: Never Too Late (Year: 2024; Director: RJ Cutler, David Furnish; Stars: Elton John)
An intimate documentary about the popular musician.
Emilia Perez (Country: US, Mexico; Year: 2024; Director: Jacques Audiard; Writer: Jacques Audiard; Stars: Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Edgar Ramírez, Karla Sofía Gascón, Adriana Paz, James Gerard, Shiraz Tzarfati, Agathe Bokja, Marie-Elisabeth Robert, Stéphane Ly-Cuong, Eric Geynes, Anabel Lopez, Eduardo Aladro, Line Phé, Cyrus Khodaveisi)
A lawyer gets an offer to help a cartel boss start a new life.
Full Review See: Jacques Audiard and Karla Sofia Gascón on changing identity, democracy and drug cartels in Emilia Perez
The Friend (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: David Siegel, Scott McGehee; Writer: Scott McGehee, David Siegel; Stars: Naomi Watts, Bill Murray, Sarah Pidgeon, Carla Gugino, Constance Wu, Noma Dumezweni, Ann Dowd, Felix Solis, Owen Teague, Bing)
When an author dies, his best friend is left to deal with his literary legacy, his three former wives and a dog who isn't supposed to be allowed in her Manhattan apartment.
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I'm Still Here (Ainda estou aqui) (Country: Brazil, France, Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Walter Salles; Writer: Murilo Hauser, Heitor Lorega, Marcelo Rubens Paiva; Stars: Brazil, 1971: a country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence.)
Brazil, 1971: a country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence.
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I'm Still Here I'm Still Here
I'm Still Here and Rumours
It's Not Me (C'est Pas Moi) (Country: France; Year: 2024; Director: Leos Carax; Writer: Leos Carax; Stars: Leos Carax, Denis Lavant, Nastya Golubeva Carax, Ekaterina Yuspina, Anna-Isabel Siefken, Bianca Maddaluno, Loreta Juodkaite, Petar Antevski)
Consideration of the filmmaker's own filmography.
Maria (Country: Germany, US, United Arab Emirates, Italy; Year: 2024; Director: Pablo Larraín; Writer: Steven Knight; Stars: Angelina Jolie, Valeria Golino, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Haluk Bilginer, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Zora Gerda Fejes, Jeremy Wheeler, Rebecka Johnston, Alessandro Bressanello, Toma Hrisztov, Stephen Ashfield, Christiana Aloneftis, Philipp Droste, Marcell Lengyel)
Dramatisation of the life of the opera singer Maria Callas.
Pavements (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Alex Ross Perry; Writer: Stephen Malkmus, Alex Ross Perry; Stars: Stephen Malkmus, Scott Kanberg, Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Fred Hechinger, Zoe Lister-Jones, Nat Wolff, Tim Heidecker, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman, Michael Esper, Kathryn Gallagher, Violette Trotter, Keith Poulson, John El-Jor)
An hybrid examination of the iconic 1990s indie band.
Queer (Country: Italy, US; Year: 2024; Director: Luca Guadagnino; Writer: Justin Kuritzkes, based on the short story by William S Burroughs; Stars: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville, Michael Borremans, Andra Ursuta, David Lowery)
Lee, who recounts his life in Mexico City among American expatriate college students and bar owners surviving on part-time jobs and GI Bill benefits. He is driven to pursue a young man named Allerton, who is based on Adelbert Lewis Marker.
A Real Pain (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Jesse Eisenberg; Writer: Jesse Eisenberg; Stars: Kieran Culkin, Jennifer Grey, Jesse Eisenberg, Will Sharpe, Ellora Torchia, Liza Sadovy, Kurt Egyiawan)
Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honor their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the pair's old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.
It's Not Me It's Not Me
It's Not Me and Afternoons Of Solitude
Rumours (Country: Canada, Germany; Year: 2024; Director: Evan Johnson, Galen Johnson, Guy Maddin; Writer: Evan Johnson; Stars: Alicia Vikander, Cate Blanchett, Charles Dance, Takehiro Hira, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Denis Ménochet, Roy Dupuis, Zlatko Buric, Ralph Berkin, Rolando Ravello, Alexa Kennedy, Tomi Kosynus)
World leaders become stranded in the woods during a G7 summit.
Full Review See: Guy Maddin on Rumours in Cannes
Union (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Stephen Maing, Brett Story)
The Amazon Labor Union (ALU) - a group of current and former Amazon workers in New York City’s Staten Island - takes on one of the world’s largest and most powerful companies in the fight to unionise.
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