Directed by Hong Khaou • 2014 • United Kingdom
Starring Ben Whishaw, Cheng Pei-pei, Andrew Leung
Set in contemporary London, LILTING features intensely moving performances by martial-arts legend Cheng Pei Pei as Junn, a Cambodian-Chinese mother grieving the untimely death of her only son, and Ben Whishaw as her son’s lover, Richard. Set in her old-fashioned ways and not fully adjusted to the foreign culture she lives in, Junn finds her fragile world disrupted by Richard’s appearance. His attempts to communicate are first met with rejection and distrust—until Vann (Naomi Christie), a young translator hired by Richard, helps piece together the tender memories of the man they both loved. Graceful, moving, and humorous, LILTING explores the ways in which loss can bring us together even when cultures and generations set us far apart.
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Directed by Tom Tykwer • 2006 • Germany, France, Spain
Starring Ben Whishaw, Alan Rickman, Rachel Hurd-WoodTom Tykwer (RUN LOLA RUN) directs this ravishingly stylized adaptation of Patrick Süskind’s best-selling novel, set in an intoxicating vision of eighteenth-century France where Jean-Baptis...
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Brideshead Revisited
Directed by Julian Jarrold • 2008 • United Kingdom
Starring Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Hayley AtwellEvelyn Waugh’s classic novel of class, Catholicism, forbidden desire, and youthful abandon giving way to adult disillusionment comes to the screen in a seductively opulent adaptation. In 1920s E...
