Matthieu Kassovitz burst onto the international film scene in 1995 with his
acclaimed debut La Haine, a blistering combination of righteous social anger,
brilliantly credible characters and beautiful cinematography. Sub…Read More...
In a change of pace for art house heavyweight Susanne Biers, this light-hearted
family wedding comedy transplants its characters from their everyday humdrum
lives in Copenhagen to the lush prettiness of the Amalfi coast, a…Read More...
Over ten years in the making, Rebellion has been a labour of love for director,
lead actor and co-writer Matthieu Kassovitz, displaying the same anger at
political and social injustice as the blistering La Haine which c…Read More...
What radical request, Unfaithful asks at its outset, can a director make to an
actor? In minimalist, verité style, Claude Pérès films the experiment in which
he asked co-actor Marcel Schlutt to spend the night alone with hi…Read More...
In modern day Copenhagen, a specialist police unit handpicks only a select few
each year to carry out its dangerous but essential work: to protect politicians
and high profile individuals against threats of terrorism, stalki…Read More...
Crowds taking to the street in revolutionary voice? It’s not a certain other
musical behemoth, but a remastered rerelease of Jancsó’s 1968 dramatisation of
political confrontation, set in Hungary shortly after the end of…Read More...
In 1917, the future novelist and playwright Mikhail Bulgakov found himself in an
extraordinary situation. Recently qualified as a doctor from the Kiev school of
medicine, he was assigned as the head of a snowbound, remote hosp…Read More...
Hitting UK cinemas in 2012, hot on the heels of Jo Nesbø’s Headhunters,
Jackpot comes from the same co-production stable of Nordisk Films and was also
penned by the best-selling Norwegian crime writer. How does it me…Read More...
Christmas in peril? Check. Genial Santa stepping in to save the day? Check.
Forlorn child leads, cute reindeer and maniacally laughing baddie? Checks all
round. No Christmas movie cliché is spared in this English langu…Read More...
A crackling, scratchy survivor from the early era of sound cinema, Outskirts
contrasts the light-hearted charm characteristic of director Boris Barnet’s
earlier successes, The Girl With The Hat Box and The House On Tru…Read More...
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