by Giuseppe Ciorra | 2025-09-01 | Uncategorised
Dave Turner, who worked with veteran British director Ken Loach on his last two films, I, Daniel Blake and Sorry We Missed You, plays the landlord of the last remaining pub, The Old Oak, in a village in County Durham. After 30 years of decline due to the closure of...
by Giuseppe Ciorra | 2025-08-28 | Uncategorised
The Taste of Things, formerly Pot-au-Feu, stars Juliette Binoche as Eugénie, an esteemed cook in ‘La Belle Epoque’ France, who has collaborated with a celebrated gourmet Dodin, played by Benoît Magimel, for over 20 years. Normally, Dodin devises the dishes while...
by Giuseppe Ciorra | 2025-08-27 | Uncategorised
Fact and fiction mix in Kaouther Ben Hania’s astonishing docudrama, winner of the Golden Eye award at last year’s Cannes Film Festival and nominated in the Best Documentary Feature category at this year’s Oscars. The film stars professional actresses alongside real...
by Giuseppe Ciorra | 2025-08-27 | Uncategorised
First-time director Celine Song has created a beautifully constructed romance which follows the lives of two deeply connected childhood friends, Nora and Hae Sung. They are wrested apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea to Canada and then New York....
by Giuseppe Ciorra | 2025-08-19 | Uncategorised
The season opens with a droll tragi-comic romance from director, Aki Kaurismäki, which won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival last year. The Finnish master returns with a typical minimalist masterpiece. In modern-day Helsinki, two lonely souls meet in a...