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A Private Life
(Vie Privée)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 22 2026
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(Vie Privée)
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Director – Rebecca Zlotowski – 2025 – France – Cert. 15 – 107m **** A psychiatrist with an unusual eye problem must unravel the mystery of the recent death of one of her patients – out in UK cinemas on Friday, June 26th Parisian psychiatrist Dr. Lilian Steiner (Jodie Foster from The Mauritanian, Kevin Macdonald, 2021, The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan […]

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The Choral

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 7 2025
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Director – Nicholas Hytner – 2025 – UK – Cert. 12a – 113m ***** Against the backdrop of WW1 and a dwindling male population, the choral society of a small Yorkshire village attempts to mount a performance of Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius – out in UK cinemas on Friday, November 7th The fictional town of Ramsden, […]

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The Red Shoes

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 3 2023
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Producers-Writers-Directors – The Archers (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger) – 1948 – UK – Cert. PG – 135m ***** A young dancer gives her all to the art of ballet, symbolised by the story’s centrepiece of the Ballet of the Red Shoes, in which the heroine is danced to death by the eponymous footwear – […]

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Director – Leos Carax – 2021 – France, US – Cert. 15 – 141m ****1/2 Musical conceived and composed by Sparks plays out as a very dark opera ending in tragedy – on MUBI from Friday, November 26th Although billed as a musical, this may actually be closer to opera given that even though it […]

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