Lovers on the Bridge: Citizens of Pont Neuf

Juliette Binoche and Denis Lavant. Photo: Gaumont It’s the kind of troubled film project that generates not one but two different documentaries telling the story of how it was made;…

The Disappearance of Josef Mengele

Welcome to the pathetic life of Dr. Josef Mengele, the famed ”Angel of Death” who notoriously experimented on his Jewish victims in Auschwitz before disappearing after the end of the…

The Quiet Beekeeper

At the same time as Olof (Adam Lundgren) is trying to reach out to his teenage daughter (Hedvig Nilsson) after the death of her mother, he’s in for a new…

Young Winston

After his directing debut, Oh! What a Lovely War (1969), Richard Attenborough turned his attention to Winston Churchill and a David Lean-style epic blending politics with military battles. We learn…

A Bill of Divorcement

After spending 15 years in a mental institution, Hilary Fairfield (John Barrymore) suddenly appears, unannounced, at the home of his wife (Billie Burke) and daughter (Katharine Hepburn). Hepburn’s film debut…

My Favourite Cake

Tehran resident Mahin (Lily Farhadpour) is in her 70s, a widow for the past three decades, who suddenly decides to take a chance and invite a taxi driver (Esmail Mehrabi)…

Hamnet: Haunting Hamlet

Photo: Focus Features There isn’t much we know about the life of Anne Hathaway, wife of William Shakespeare. That gave author Maggie O’Farrell an opening to imagine her personality, actions…

The Choral

In a small Yorkshire town during World War I, a choral group hires a new talent to lead them, Henry Guthrie (Ralph Fiennes), in spite of the fact that he…

Collateral Beauty

Audiences appreciated this Christmas-set drama about grief more than critics. A star-studded cast embody characters who struggle with the loss of a child, letting your family know that you’re about…

Putin

A chaotic biography of the life and death of Vladimir Putin, bullied child who quickly rose through the ranks to become dictator of Russia, haunted by specters from his past.…