Directed by Lili Horvát • 2020 • Hungary
Starring Natasa Stork, Viktor Bodó, Benett Vilmányi
The second feature by Hungarian director Lili Horvát is a slippery, seductive investigation of memory, obsession, and delusion. After twenty years in the United States, Hungarian neurosurgeon Márta (Natasa Stork) returns to Budapest for a romantic rendezvous with János (Viktor Bodó), a fellow doctor she met at a conference. The only problem: when she arrives, János is nowhere to be seen and, when she at last tracks him down, claims the two have never met. What ensues is a tantalizing psychological puzzle that toys brilliantly with the conventions of film noir and with the viewer’s own sense of reality.
Directed by Manoel de Oliveira • 1981 • Portugal
Starring Teresa Menezes, Diogo Dória, Mário Barroso
A portrait of an obsessive love affair, Manoel de Oliveira’s FRANCISCA is based on a novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís, whose work the legendary director would later adapt twice more. The book’s retel...
Directed by Agnieszka Holland and Kasia Adamik • 2017 • Poland
Starring Agnieszka Mandat, Wiktor Zborowski, Jakub Gierszal
Mysterious, atmospheric, and darkly humorous, Agnieszka Holland’s genre-defying adaptation of Nobel Prize–winning writer Olga Tokarczuk’s novel “Drive Your Plow over the Bon...
Directed by Mike Leigh • 1999 • United Kingdom
Starring Allan Corduner, Jim Broadbent, Timothy Spall
The world of Gilbert and Sullivan comes to vivid life in director Mike Leigh’s extraordinary dramatization of the staging of the duo’s legendary 1885 comic opera THE MIKADO. Jim Broadbent and All...
