La Grazia is the latest from the great Italian director Paolo Sorrentino once again has Toni Servillo in the starring role, this time as Mariano De Santis, an imaginary Italian president in the last months of his office.
“La Grazia is a marvel. Slow, grave and perfectly realised, it's by far Sorrentino's best film for years.” - David Sexton, New Statesman
Based on the director's own childhood, and filmed mainly through the eyes of Sasha, an eight year-old girl, 'Blue Heron' follows the trials and tribulations of this family whose lives are dominated by the eldest child.
"Occasionally, a talent arrives fully formed, and the Canadian-Hungarian director Sophy Romvari is one such phenomenon" - Wendy Ide, Observer
Our member's picked Pedro Almodóvar's Bitter Christmas for this season of films and as one of our favourite directors we were delighted to be able to bring it to Keswick.
"With its moving musical interludes, comic patter and outrageously chic production design, Bitter Christmas is another dazzling, late-period jewel." - David Jenkins, Little White Lies
Orphan was the Hungarian entry to the last Oscars. Andor is fighting back against the Soviet Occupation as best he can as a young teenager, helping his friend Sari hide her activist brother from the Soviet police, all the while idealising his missing father, last seen in the concentration camps.
"Director László Nemes ('Son of Saul') crafts an indelible portrait of 1950s Hungary, still reeling from Nazi terrors, antisemitism bubbling away. Newcomer Barabas is a magnetic presence as Andor, a child permanently angry at the world" - James Mottram, Radio Times.
Cactus Pears takes a gentle look at the problems faced when a 30 year-old, gay Indian man has to return to his village for his father's funeral. Facing the villagers questions on why he has not married, he finds some solace when an old crush of his from his youth comes on the scene.
"A luminous work, brimming with grace and delicacy" - Srikanth Srinivasan, Sight and Sound