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A Private Life
(Vie Privée)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 22 2026
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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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Primavera
(Primavera)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 22 2026
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Director – Damiano Michieletto – 2025 – Italy, France – Cert. 15 – 110m ***** A young Venetian orphan comes into her own learning to play the violin under her orphanage’s new Master of Music, Antonio Vivaldi – period drama is out in UK and Ireland cinemas on Friday, April 24th A group of girls, all […]

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Ennio: The Maestro
(Ennio)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date April 22 2022
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Director – Giuseppe Tornatore – 2021 – Italy – Cert. 15 – 156m **** Documentary Ennio: The Maestro looks at the career of Italian film composer Ennio Morricone – out in cinemas on Friday, April 22nd It’s difficult to know where to start with Ennio Morricone, whose career in film music covers some 70 years. […]

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Babyteeth

Director – Shannon Murphy – 2019 – Australia – Cert. 15 – 118m ***** In cinemas from Friday, August 14th and on BFI Player from Monday, December 7th Uniformed schoolgirl Milla (Eliza Scanlen) stands on a platform ill at ease with her classmates. The train comes in. Before she can move to get on it, […]

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Departures
(Okuribito,
おくりびと)

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Post date December 4 2009
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Director – Yojiro Takita – 2008 – Japan – Cert. 12a – 130m ***** An unemployed cellist finds himself working on the encoffination of corpses prior to their cremation – in cinemas Friday, December 4th 2009 Winner of 2009’s Best Foreign Film Oscar (and numerous other awards besides), this Japanese entry is a rarity in […]