Lolita
A film by Adrian Lyne
| An iconic adaptation of the Vladimir Nabokov classic, starring Jeremy Irons and Dominique Swain, Lolita tells a disturbing tale of tortured and forbidden love. |
The Lover
A film by Jean-Jacques Annaud!
| Set in 1920s colonial Indochina, a pretty, virginal French teenager (Jane March) meets a handsome Chinese playboy (Tony Leung Ka Fai) from a respectable family. Going against the conventions of their respective societies, the lustful pair begin a torrid affair in a seedy Saigon neighbourhood. The illicit nature of their rendezvous only intensifies their strong attraction toward one another. Given such circumstances, can their relationship last? An erotic cult classic lauded and derided in equal measure. |
Penance
Five Episodes
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
| Japanese master of suspense Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s (Cure, Creepy, Pulse) eerie, intense psychological thriller unfolds on a sleepy small town playground, when a mysterious stranger approaches a group of young friends, then kidnaps and brutally murders one of the girls. Wracked with grief, the victim’s unhinged mother Asako (Kyoko Koizumi) demands that the shaken survivors identify the killer or face a penance of her choosing. A disturbing, sensitively helmed chronicle of post-traumatic stress from a female perspective, Penance offers Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s trademark creepy twists as well as a subtle commentary on Japanese society and gender expectations. |
| OVID SVOD Exclusives! Humphrey Jennings Six Films Born in Suffolk on 19 August 1907, Humphrey Jennings is widely considered one of Britain’s greatest documentary filmmakers, directing films that beautifully evoke everyday heroism in times of war and peace. He created WWII propaganda films that were also art, and his best films were done between The First Days (1939) and A Diary for Timothy (1945). Listen to Britain (1942), a collage of the various people and classes of Britain was nominated for an Academy Award. |
