Reviews were middling, but the film picked up a couple of Oscar nominations (including one for Holly Hunter, who had less than six minutes of screen time), and was a roaring success at the box office.
Peter Hastings’s movie incarnation of the popular graphic novel series presents a cheerful whirlwind of goofball gags, silly puns and moments of real poignancy in an endearing, unpolished package.
Set in Connemara, Christopher Andrews’s bloody debut stars Barry Keoghan and Christopher Abbott as two feuding shepherds caught in a cycle of patriarchal violence.
With Japan’s first full-colour film, Carmen Comes Home, screening around the UK, we dive into the luminous world of Japanese colour filmmaking in the 1950s and early 1960s.
Norwegian writer-director Emilie Blichfeldt’s grotesque reworking of the Cinderella story creates a world where beauty is pain for some women, but life is pain for all of them.
The in-person events programme will include Hot Spot sessions with actor and filmmaker Alice Lowe (Timestalker, Prevenge), and theatre and film director Nadia Latif (The Man in My Basement).