1/9
Love
Extreme violence made Michael Haneke’s movies classics, however this time the creator of Funny Games and Caché has come up with a surprisingly moderate and gentle but still shocking work about the last period of a marriage. When the wife gets paralyzed after a stroke, the husband doesn’t stop to look after her, however the tension between the two cannot be hidden anymore. In this movie, two legendary people personify the love that is mainly about caring, instead of passion.
Premier: November 8.
2/9
Reality
This year the Jury of the Cannes Film Festival gave an award to Neapolitan fishmonger who participated in the Italian Big Brother. The director of the famous movie called Gamorra is about Italy’s cruel reality.
Premier: November 8.
3/9
Hysteria
This funny, easy-going movie is about society, medicine, “women’s problem”, and hysteria in the 19th century and it offer the solution too for all this: the invention of the vibrator. Although the movie only touches these topics, the entertaining style makes it extremely enjoyable and a typical masterpiece.
Premier: November 8.
4/9
Twilight – Breaking Dawn 2
The story, based on the dominant youth novel series of our time, has only one last fight left in store for its fans. In the last episode of the famous teen-romance saga vampires and werewolves are about to go to battle side by side for such values like family, love and union.
Premier: November 15
5/9
This is not a film
Iranian cinema’s internationally recognized figure Jafar Panahi was sentenced to prison at home and had to stop making films. Waiting for the result of his appeal he secretly grabbed an iPhone and a small digital camera and made a movie that was smuggled to the Cannes Film Festival in a birthday cake. This is not really a movie, but a priceless documentary that shocked the whole film industry with its determination and passionate love for film.
Premier: November 15.
6/9
A Royal Affair
Denmark has created its own representative costume movie about a glorious historical event. During the enlightenment, unknown forces influence Christian VII of Denmark through politics and intriguing love affairs in order to transform the country into a leading European power. The movie was a great success at the Berlin Film Festival and got in the ring to win the Oscar as the best foreign movie.
Premier: November 22.
7/9
Cloud Atlas
The co-operation of Tom Tykwer midcult director and Wachowski brothers, the makers of Matrix, gave birth to this interesting fantasy movie placed in the far future. Based on a novel with the same title, the film is built on the idea that everything is connected to everything else and human lives are linked together all around the world; every passing moment and every little detail significantly alters our future.
Premier: November 22.
8/9
Play
The winner of this year’s Titanic Film Festival is the product of a Swedish-Danish co-operation. In this drama, wealthy Swedish children are robbed and beaten by kids coming from immigrant families. This extremely serious topic shows perfectly well the hidden world of the Scandinavian show-off-country with its worsening social conflicts and its poisoning moral dilemmas.
Premier: November 22.
9/9
Red Lights
After Rodrigo Cortés’ first comedy (The winner) and quite successful coffin-drama (Buried Alive), now he did something promising for the supernatural thriller genre. Just to make sure that the fans won’t be able to resist, he mixed a star parade with a script that he wrote himself. Sigourney Weaver, Cilian Murphy and Robert De Niro can’t wait to unveil the truth behind this paranormal activity.