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A Real Pain (2024)- BFI London Film Festival 2024

Posted by Gui on October 7, 2024

Review 90min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:     Jesse Eisenberg Cast:         Jesse Eisenberg, Kieran Culkin, Jennifer Grey…and more Writers:     Jesse Eisenberg -Synopsis- Two estranged and very different American cousins come together on a trip to Poland to honour their grandmother’s origins and re-connect with their Jewish roots, only to get on each other’s last nerve and […]

The Zone of Interest (2023) (German Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2023

Posted by Gui on December 31, 2023

Review 105min Genre:       Fact-Based, Drama Director:     Jonathan Glazer Cast:         Christian Friedel, Sandra Hüller, Freya Kreutzkam…and more Writers:     Jonathan Glazer and Martin Amis -Synopsis- During War War II in the house and garden next to Auschwitz, the camp commandant tries to build an idyllic family life in the shadow of the horror he oversees, only to […]

Cold War (2018) (Polish & Other Languages)

Posted by Gui on September 1, 2018

Review 88min Genre:       Drama, Music, Romance Director:    Pawel Pawlikowski Cast:         Joanna Kulig, Tomasz Kot, Borys Szyc…and more Writers:     Pawel Pawlikowski, Janusz Glowacki and Piotr Borkowski -Synopsis- In the gloom of post-war Poland, a musician and conductor forms a renowned performance academy made up of traditional young rural folk talents, only to fall for his star […]

Destination Unknown (2017)

Posted by Gui on June 15, 2017

Review 81min Genre:      Documentary Director:   Claire Ferguson Cast:        Ed Mosberg, Helen Sternlicht, Frank Blaichman…and more Writer:     Jonathan Key -Synopsis- Twelve Polish Jewish survivors of the Holocaust recount their harrowing and disparate experiences of the ‘Third Reich’s’ cruelty, as director Claire Ferguson combines extraordinary archival footage with deeply personal testimony, painting a moving portrait of […]

The Zookeeper’s Wife (2017)

Posted by Gui on April 23, 2017

Review 127min Genre:       Fact-based, Drama Director:    Niki Caro Cast:         Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh, Daniel Brühl…and more Writers:     Angela Workman and Diane Ackerman -Synopsis- Based on a remarkable true story and starring Jessica Chastain as the matriarch of a Polish zookeeper family in the late 1940s, who risk their lives and become heroes when they use […]