Foreign Films

This classically styled piece of art house cinema was Sweden’s entry for this years Oscars. “An intense pleasure” Variety

Happily-married couple Lisa and Julien lead a quiet life with their son Oscar. But one morning their lives are turned upside down when the police arrest Lisa for murder. “Thriller of the year” – Figaro | “Pure entertainment: utterly gripping and extremely persuasive” – Sight & Sound

A powerful, poetic and emotionally-charged drama about love, loss and liberation. The film tells the story of Jakob Beer, a man whose life is haunted by his childhood experiences during WWII.

Wheel of Time is a documentary about a Buddhist ritual promoting peace and tolerance, held by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Mizoguchi’s masterpiece is both impassioned and elegiac with its fragile beauty highlighted with a soundtrack from Fumio Hayasaka, rightly regarded as the finest of Japan’s film composers.

The story of a mercenary samurai selling his services to two rival factions in a small town, and then sitting back to watch the enemies destroy each other, was the film link between Dashiel Hammet’s noir novel Red Harvest and Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars.

It’s Jacques Tati meets Jacques Demy in this wonderful Belgo-French comedy that has seduced film festival audiences around the world.

Red Cliff marks a thrilling return home for John Woo after his long and no doubt well rewarded time in Hollywood. This epic film is based on the true events during the end of the Han Dynasty and immediately prior to the period of the Three Kingdoms in ancient China.

With a sublime soundtrack by multi-award winner composer Joe Hisaishi – also known for his work with Takeshi Kitano – Miyazaki’s first digitally animated feature has a resonance, weight and complexity that make it all but Shakespearean.

Japan’s most celebrated composer of the 20th century, Toru Takemitsu produced one of his most haunting works for the soundtrack of this film.

Audrey Tautou plays the legendary Coco Chanel in an enthralling exploration of her early life before she rose to worldwide fame as the most celebrated fashion designer of the 20th Century.

This big budget feature – filmed to commemorate Giacomo Puccini’s 150th anniversary – stars the opera world’s dream team, soprano Anna Netrebko and tenor Rolando Villazon.

Inspired by the life of France’s most notorious criminal, Mesrine: Killer Instinct is part one of a two part biography that charts the rise and fall of the often marvelled, yet utterly ruthless gangster, Jacques Mesrine.

A family’s peaceful existence is threatened when a busy highway is opened only metres away from their isolated house in the middle of nowhere. Refusing to move, Marthe, Michel and their three children find new ways to adapt to their new environment.