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Bombay Beach
Released: 03/02/2012
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Alma Har'el's debut feature probes a forgotten corner of America. On the shore of the Salton Sea in the Colorado desert is a failed 1950s development scheme, now home to a motley cast of colourful characters and misfits. A dreamlike documentary with a specially composed score by Beirut's Zach Condon.
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Carnage
Released: 03/02/2012
General release
International fugitive Roman Polanski re-enters the Hollywood stratosphere with a tale of two New York families (filmed in Paris, naturally), brought together by a calamitous playground fight between their respective children. Adapted from the French play God of Carnage, this black comedy stars Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster and Christoph Waltz.
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Martha Marcy May Marlene
Released: 03/02/2012
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Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) flees from a cult and its abusive leader. Despite taking refuge with her family, she descends into a mental state reminiscent of latter-years Howard Hughes. This is a haunting treatise on paranoia from debut writer/director Sean Durkin, raising profound and disturbing issues, such as: there's a third Olsen sister?
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House Of Tolerance
Released: 27/01/2012
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Set in a Parisian brothel circa 1900, Bertrand Bonello's painterly drama explores the lives of its female prostitutes and their exploitation at the hands of the rich and powerful clientele. Elegance and sexuality are the order of the day then, with the odd helping of facial disfigurement. Noémie Lvovsky stars.
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Patience (After Sebald)
Released: 27/01/2012
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Director Grant Gee (of Radiohead doc Meeting People Is Easy) explores the life of German writer and academic W.G. Sebald, believed a sure thing for the Nobel Prize in Literature before he died in 2001. A visual poem, this brings together key Sebald themes – memory, biography and the East Anglian landscape.
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The Descendants
Released: 27/01/2012
General release
Sideways director Alexander Payne's adaptation of Kaui Hart Hemming's novel pits George Clooney as a workaholic, Honolulu-based attorney, forced to re-examine the meaning of family after his wife becomes comatose during a boating accident. Toeing the line between humor and grief, The Descendants is a raw exposure of the messy and moving moments in life.
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Coriolanus
Released: 20/01/2012
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When it comes to directing your first feature you can't ask for a better script than one penned by Shakespeare. That's what Ralph Fiennes must have thought, as he's brought the bard's lesser known political tragedy out of retirement. Fiennes and Gerard Butler star in a tale of Roman generals that hits all the right contemporary notes.
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J. Edgar
Released: 20/01/2012
General release
Hollywood titan Clint Eastwood returns to familiar biopic territory, this time bringing to life one of the most controversial figures in 20th-century American politics. In a star turn, Leonardo DiCaprio brings a dignified and even-handed approach to a subject that could easily have descended into cross-dressing farce.
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L'Atalante
Released: 20/01/2012
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Released in 1934, Jean Vigo's only full-length film L'Atalante is a masterpiece on the trials and tribulations of love. Telling the story of a newlywed couple who live aboard a cramped barge, the film blends realism with romanticism in a way that has rarely been matched since its long-ago debut.
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W.E.
Released: 20/01/2012
General release
For her second directorial outing, Madonna tackles the Edward VIII abdication crisis. A modern day American woman, Wally Winthrop, is obsessively researching Wallis Simpson and Edward VIII’s notorious love affair, though her obsession soon develops into a spiritual connection with Simpson in whom she finds example of how to live her own life.
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