With or Without You (1999)

1999

Rosie and Vincent know each other for ten years, and are married for five. She doesn’t like her job, he isn’t too pleased working with her dad. They’re trying to have a baby. One morning Benoit, a Frenchman and former pen pal of Rosie, whom she never met, comes to visit. Did Rosie love him? Does she love him now?

A Royal Affair

A Royal Affair (2012)

2012

A young queen falls in love with her physician, and they start a revolution that changes their nation forever. In 1767, the British Princess Caroline is betrothed to the mad King Christian VII of Denmark, but her life with the erratic monarch in the oppressive country becomes an isolating misery. However, Christian soon gains a fast companion with the German Dr. Johann Struensee, a quietly idealistic man of the Enlightenment. As the only one who […]

Autumn Lights (2016)

2016

An American photographer adrift in a remote Icelandic community becomes entangled in the lives of a mysterious European couple. Set against Iceland’s dramatic landscape, Autumn Lights is a story of morality, virtue, and relationships as seen through the eyes of a foreigner in a strange land. The story follows David, an introverted American photographer adrift in remote Iceland while on assignment. When he gets caught in a local investigation after discovering a deserted body washed […]

In an Old Manor House or The Independence of Triangles (1985)

1985

In a country house at the turn of a century live a family of eccentrics. Anastasia, the beautiful mistress of the manor, enjoys the amorous attentions of her stepson Blarney so openly that her husband Diapanasius takes out his shotgun and shoots her. The rest of the family accepts her end as a matter-of-fact, and soon – her return as a voyeuristic ghost who interferes with their love lives. Anastasia has a posthumous son Tadeusz, […]

Curiosa

Curiosa (2019)

2019

A passionate love story set against a backdrop of sexual freedom, loosely based on the relationship between 19th century authors Pierre Louÿs and Marie de Régnier Paris 1895; Pierre is a Parisian dandy and poet on the verge of fame. He and his poet friend Henri are both madly in love with Marie, the cheeky daughter of their mentor, Franco-Cuban poet José-Maria de Heredia. Although she loves Pierre, obeying her father she marries Henri to […]

Bad Boy (2020)

2020

Pawel and Piotr are two brothers who grow up in a violent household until one day, when their football-hooligan father is kicking their mother on the floor of their apartment, Pawel takes the breadknife to him. His younger sibling initially doesn’t co-operate with the police but eventually leads them to his brother and this seems to set the tone for the elder boy who sort of follows in the footsteps of the father he murdered […]

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary (1991)

1991

In nineteenth-century France, the romantic daughter of a country squire (Emma Rouault) marries a dull country doctor (Charles Bovary). To escape boredom, she throws herself into love affairs with a suave local landowner (Rodolphe Boulanger) and a law student (Leon Dupuis), and runs up ruinous debts. This film version closely follows Flaubert’s novel and includes most of the famous scenes, such as the wedding, the ball, the agricultural fair, the operation on the clubfoot, and […]