Stolen Kisses: Antoine Doinel Finds Love

Claude Jade and Jean-Pierre Léaud. Photo: United Artists The opening shot places the film firmly in its time, capturing a moment that is long forgotten. We’re shown the French Cinémathèque…

Coming Home: How to Have an Orgasm

Jon Voight and Jane Fonda. Photo: United Artists One of the most important moments in this critically lauded but perhaps slightly forgotten film is a sex scene. Jane Fonda, who…

Off Track

In a moment of weakness, eternal screw-up Lisa (Katia Winter) tells her daughter that she intends to compete in Vasaloppet, a 56-mile ski race; now she has to get in…

Worst Person in the World: Millennial Angst

Renate Reinsve. Photo: Oslo Pictures As Joachim Trier was making his final chapter in a trilogy of films that began with Reprise (2006) and continued with Oslo, August 31st (2011),…

Weekend: Love In a Painfully Straight World

Tom Cullen and Chris New. Photo: Peccadillo Pictures Love is still controversial to the Catholic Church, at least if it is displayed between men. As late as 2016, the British…

Hiroshima Mon Amour: Prisoners of War

Emmanuelle Riva and Eiji Okada. Photo: Argos Films Another one of those classics that I wasn’t quite prepared for when I was studying film, but which had a much more…

Pretty Woman

Depressed corporate raider Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) hooks up with a Hollywood Boulevard prostitute (Julia Roberts) and realizes she’s a human being. An enormous box-office hit at the time, this…

Happiest Season 

Harper (Mackenzie Davis) is spending Christmas together with her family and her girlfriend Abby (Kristen Stewart)… but on the journey home she tells Abby that she hasn’t come out to…

Muriel’s Wedding 

Muriel (Toni Collette), a bullied, ABBA-loving young woman in a small town, steal $12,000 to join her ”friends” on an island vacation. The director’s feature film debut was an international…

Bridget Jones’s Baby 

Bridget Jones (Renée Zellweger), 43, suddenly finds herself pregnant, but who’s the father – her ex Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) or Jack Qwant (Patrick Dempsey), an American billionaire and inventor?…