Tae-suk is never short of a place to stay, and every place provides a revelation, none more so than the house of a rich business man. Tae-suk enters the homes of strangers while they are away, stays for a short time, leaves the place immaculate and then moves on, but in this house he discovers Sun-hwa, the abused wife of its owner and in a break from his solitary existence Tae-suk decides to take her with him. 3 Iron is a ravishing tale of romance in both its execution and imagery. Tender, restr
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HUNGER (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
Bobby Sands was the IRA member who led the 1981 Long Kesh hunger strike as part of a campaign to achieve the status of political prisoners and not that of criminals. The first section of film deals with daily prison life, the 'dirty' protest and the violence, the second is a long discussion on the meaning of life with a sympathetic priest and the third depicts the last weeks and death of a man voluntarily dying of starvation.
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SOPHIE SCHOLL (2005)
Certification15 Our Rating
Sophie Scholl was a member of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance group based in Munich University, 1943. Sophie and her brother are captured during a dangerous mission to distribute pamphlets on campus. Unwavering in her convictions and loyalty to her comrades, her cross-examination by a Gestapo officer quickly escalates into a searing test of wills as Scholl delivers a passionate call to freedom and personal responsibility. Armed with long-buried historical records of her incarceration, di
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TRILOGY THREE: AFTER LIFE (2003)
Certification15 Our Rating
Trilogy consists of three stand alone stories, all set in Grenoble, and three different genres, thriller, comedy and melodrama, that taken as a whole become inextricably linked. A contemporary tour de force by Lucas Belvaux that calls to mind Kieslowski's ‘Three Colours' trilogy. In this emotive third film the only thing Pascal is sure of, in his increasingly complicated life, is his love for his wife, but with her descent into morphine addiction he can feel her slipping away from him. Pascal's
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