Sentimental Value

How do existing familial bonds shape us as humans? This is the question Sentimental Value sets out to explore. When sisters Nora (Renate Reinsve) and Agnes (Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas) lose their mother, they come face to face with their estranged father, Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård). As a filmmaker, Gustav reveals to Nora he has written a […]

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Eternity

The ‘love triangle’ has become a stable trope in recent media – after all many of the fairytales we loved as teens had one – and plenty of recent releases still do. But Eternity takes that familiar set up and transforms it into something far more nuanced and meaningful than the films that came before […]

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Bugonia

4/5 Picture this: it’s 8am at Picturehouse Central. You’ve been up since six, walked all the way there, and now you’re about to sit through a film you don’t even want to see. I was already familiar with Yorgos Lanthimos’ work, but the only film of his I’d seen was Poor Things, which, controversially, I […]

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100 Nights of Hero

4/5 As children, we were all brought up on fairytales in one form or another, whether through books or films, they surrounded us. But as we grow older, we tend to drift away from those fables that once shaped our imagination. 100 Nights of Hero, however, invites viewers to return to that childlike wonder, drawing […]

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