JANUARY 2024 AT THE IFI
FESTIVALS
PREVIEWS
IFI@HOME
First Fortnight TradFest
Priscilla The Zone of Interest
MyFrenchFilmFestival
ALL OF US STRANGERS ANDREW HAIGH
JANUARY AT THE IFI IFI NEW RELEASES, DOCS & CLASSICS
CONTENTS
PRISCILLA
FROM MON 1ST
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POOR THINGS
FROM FRI 12TH
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THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE
FROM FRI 12TH
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THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER
FROM FRI 19TH
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THE HOLDOVERS
FROM FRI 19TH
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ALL OF US STRANGERS
FROM FRI 26TH
C
SAMSARA
FROM FRI 26TH
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IFI FESTIVALS IFI SPECIAL EVENTS IFI NEW RELEASES, DOCS & CLASSICS IFI@HOME
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SEASONS & EVENTS AT A GLANCE MON 1ST
FRI 19TH
PREVIEW: PRISCILLA
C 13.10
PREVIEW: PRISCILLA
C 18.10
TUES 2ND
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MYFRENCHFILMFESTIVAL
SAT 20TH C 15.45
PREVIEW: THE ZONE OF INTEREST
PREVIEW: PRISCILLA
C 16.00
PREVIEW: PRISCILLA
C 20.40
THUR 4TH
SUN 21ST MYSTERY MATINEE
C 13.00
PREVIEW: THE ZONE OF INTEREST
C 15.40
PREVIEW: PRISCILLA
C 15.50
PREVIEW: PRISCILLA
C 20.40
THUR 25TH
C 15.40
FRI 26TH
C 18.30
SAT 27TH
FRI 5TH OC SCREENING: PRISCILLA
SAT 6TH FROM THE VAULTS: THE DEAD
SUN 7TH FIRST FORTNIGHT: WRITING HOME + BEING PUT BACK TOGETHER + Q&A
C 16.00
C 11.00
WILD STRAWBERRIES: CHEVALIER
IFI & TRADFEST: JANIS IAN & THE ART OF SONG (WORKING TITLE) + Q&A
C 15.30
PREVIEW: THE ZONE OF INTEREST
C 18.10
SUN 28TH
TUES 9TH OC SCREENING: PRISCILLA
C 18.00
YOUR FAT FRIEND + Q&A
C 18.10
IFI IRISH FOCUS & TRADFEST: SEÁN KEANE: A PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST + Q&A
C 15.30
WED 31ST
THUR 11TH FIRST FORTNIGHT: THE YEAR BETWEEN
C 18.30
WILD STRAWBERRIES: CHEVALIER (OC)
C 11.00
SUN 14TH IFI FAMILY & FIRST FORTNIGHT: FEELING FINE SHORT FILM PROGRAMME
C 11.00
TUES 16TH OC SCREENING: POOR THINGS
C 14.10
WED 17TH OC SCREENING: POOR THINGS
C CINEMA ONLY
H IFI@HOME ONLY
C 20.20
& CINEMA & IFI@HOME
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FIRST FORTNIGHT
The Year Between
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The IFI is proud to partner once again with First Fortnight, the multidisciplinary arts festival which creatively challenges stigma and bias around mental health, with screenings, Q&As, and shorts programmes for all ages taking place throughout January. Documentary feature Writing Home explores poet Colm Keegan’s inspirational work with homeless services users, and will be preceded by the award-winning short Being Put Back Together; The Year Between is a funny, honest, and moving depiction of life with bipolar disorder from actor-writer-director Alex Heller; and the IFI Family event presents a showcase of fun and varied animations touching on emotions and moods to engage young audiences. Notes by David O’Mahony
Sisters
FIRST FORTNIGHT
IFI & FIRST FORTNIGHT
WRITING HOME + BEING PUT BACK TOGETHER
IFI & FIRST FORTNIGHT
THE YEAR BETWEEN
IFI FAMILY & FIRST FORTNIGHT
FEELING FINE SHORT FILM PROGRAMME
ALEX HELLER
SUN 7TH (16.00)
THUR 11TH (18.30)
SUN 14TH (11.00)
WRITING HOME
Inspired by true events, The Year Between is the story of Clemence Miller (played by writer-director Alex Heller), a college sophomore who is forced to move back home following a breakdown.
The IFI presents a delightful and varied programme of international short animations which deal with emotions and relationships in playful settings.
Writing Home explores a programme of creative engagement for homeless services users developed by poet Colm Keegan to improve understanding around issues of homelessness while supporting social integration. The programme was supported by Creative Ireland, Poetry Ireland, and Kilkenny County Council. Arcade Films, Ireland, 44 mins, 2022
BEING PUT BACK TOGETHER Irish filmmaker David McDonagh follows his brother Kaylen as he discovers photography and learns how it can help with life’s difficulties. Winner of Best Short Documentary at the Galway Film Fleadh. David McDonagh, Ireland, 11 mins, 2023
This programme will be followed by a panel discussion with Colm Keegan, David McDonagh and Kaylen McDonagh. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
Faced with a surprising diagnosis of bipolar disorder and a jarring return to the Illinois suburbs, Clemence has to learn how to live with her well-meaning but frustrated family. Funny, warm-hearted, fresh, and honest, The Year Between is an exemplary debut by Alex Heller. Based on her own mental health struggles, Heller has crafted a poignant, powerful, and entertaining story of an individual and a family managing the highs and lows of adjusting to a new normal.
94 mins, 2022, USA, Digital Notes by David O’Mahony
From a colourful parakeet overcoming his fears to a tale of two sisters learning to get along, and more, this programme is sure to leave you and your young viewers feeling fine. IFI Age Rec: 6+
Approx. 60 mins, Digital Notes by Alicia McGivern
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IFI FESTIVALS PRESENTS
Janis Ian & The Art of Song. Image Copyright: Peter Cunningham
IFI & TRADFEST Over the past fifteen years we have enjoyed many harmonious collaborations with TradFest, celebrating Irish traditional music in the heart of the city. Our film programmes have included joyous documentaries following musical icons The Dubliners, Clannad, and the Kilfenora Céilidh Band, and more intimate portraits of Irish and international folks such as Pete Seeger, Jean Carignan, Tony MacMahon, Paddy Glackin, and Noel Hill. This year’s films may prove the most memorable yet with a poignant tribute to master fiddler Seán Keane (1946 – 2023) and a transcendent work-in-progress about American singer, songwriter, and LGBTQ+ activist Janis Ian. Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
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IFI & TRADFEST IFI & TRADFEST
IRISH FOCUS
JANIS IAN & SEÁN KEANE: THE ART OF SONG A PORTRAIT (WORKING TITLE) OF AN ARTIST VARDA BAR-KAR
DERMOT O’HANLON
SAT 27TH (15.30)
SUN 28TH (15.30)
This work-in-progress documentary follows the life journey and transcendent artistry of groundbreaking American singer-songwriter Janis Ian.
Seán Keane (1946-2023) earned world renown as a pivotal member of The Chieftains, the group he joined in 1968 after coming to prominence with Ceoltóirí Chualann and the Castle Céilí Band earlier in the decade. His powerful fiddle playing married technical virtuosity with insight and a deep understanding of what made Irish traditional music distinctively beautiful.
In the mid-‘60s, Janis, a tiny, teenage, Jewish singer-songwriter from New Jersey scored a hit with “Society’s Child”, a song about an interracial couple which brought fame, but also controversy. In 1975, she re-emerged with “At Seventeen”, a massive hit which touched the lives of young men and women the world over. Twenty years later, with the release of her album Breaking Silence (1992), she addressed the rising teen suicide rate in the LGBTQ+ community by talking openly about her loving relationship with her wife Pat Snyder. In 2022, Janis released her final album, Light at the End of the Line, and embarked on a poignant tour bidding farewell to her fans. This screening will be followed by a conversation with director Varda Bar-Kar and Janis Ian, hosted by Anna Nolan (Head of Development at COCO Content, Chair of the National LGBT Federation).
112 mins, USA, 2024, Digital Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
In this documentary profile, Seán recalls a range of musical influences from early days listening to James Morrison and Frank O’Higgins on a wind-up gramophone and his great admiration for the musical and managerial skills of Paddy Moloney. Seán’s talents are extolled by fellow traditional musicians Paddy Glackin, Mick O’Connor, Liam O’Connor, Matt Molloy, and Doireann Ní Ghlacáin, who speaks of the “overwhelming feeling of joy” which his music creates. Followed by a Q&A with director Dermot O’Hanlon and producer Seán Potts.
50 mins, Ireland, 2024, Digital Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
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JANUARY 2024 The Dead
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IFI SPECIAL EVENTS ARCHIVE AT LUNCHTIME
RADHARC IN BRITAIN
FROM THE VAULTS
THE DEAD JOHN HUSTON
Join us for free screenings of films from the IFI Irish Film Archive every Monday, Wednesday, and double-bill Saturday. Simply collect your tickets at IFI Box Office. Radharc document the experience of the Irish in the UK in the 1960s.
PROGRAMME ONE HOUSE HUNTERS
This film documents the work of a young priest from Limerick, Fr. Eamonn Casey, with the Irish in Britain. He formed the Housing Aid Society, which gave Irish people on small incomes the opportunity to buy their own house. 27 mins, Ireland, 1965
PROGRAMME TWO HOTEL CHAPLAIN
Radharc documents the work of Irish immigrant chaplains specially selected by their bishops to minister to the Irish in England, originally to the Irish construction workers who are on isolated sites with little opportunity to go to Mass, and later to Irish women employed in hotels in London’s West End.
SAT 6TH (18.30) The Feast of the Epiphany is celebrated in a genteel Dublin household in Huston’s pitch-perfect adaptation of James Joyce’s short story 'The Dead'. As the New Year dawns in 1904, the elderly Misses Morkan (Helena Carroll and Cathleen Delaney) and their niece, Mary Jane (Ingrid Craigie), a music teacher, prepare for their annual dinner and musical soirée. John Huston’s subtle direction, a wholly distinguished ensemble of Irish actors, and Angelica Huston and Donal McCann’s delicately wrought performances perfectly capture the social atmosphere and emotional nuance of Joyce’s original text. For Huston, the film served as an elegant and melancholic farewell to Ireland and to life itself. This screening will be introduced by Ingrid Craigie. Screening on original 35mm film.
26 mins, Ireland, 1965
Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
83 mins, UK-USA-Ireland, 1987, 35mm Notes by Sunniva O’Flynn
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IFI SPECIAL EVENTS MYSTERY MATINEE
MYSTERY MATINEE
WILD STRAWBERRIES
CHEVALIER STEPHEN WILLIAMS
SUN 21ST (13.00)
FRI 26TH & WED 31ST (11.00)
Join us for this month’s screening at 13.00 on Sunday, January 21st. The film chosen could be anything from throughout the history of cinema, from a silent classic to a preview of a hotly anticipated upcoming release.
This stylish and highly watchable biopic concerns the composer, Joseph Bologne, son of an enslaved African woman and white plantation owner in 18th-Century France. Determined to succeed despite prejudice, Bologne pushes himself to excel at fencing, composing and violin and is awarded the title ‘Chevalier’, but prejudice remains. With some anachronistic details beloved of Bridgerton fans, the film goes on to explore the musician’s forbidden romance and ultimately his facing up to the reality of discrimination, in a sumptuous, captivating depiction.
Whether it’s a title that one might expect to see at the IFI, or a film more at home in the multiplexes, the secret, closely guarded even from IFI staff, will be kept until the title appears onscreen. Expect the unexpected and take a chance, with tickets costing just €6.20. A full list of previous screenings is available from www.ifi.ie/mystery-matinee-archive
The screening on Wednesday 31st will be Open Captioned.
108 mins, USA, 2022, Digital Notes by Alicia McGivern
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JANUARY 2024 IFI DOC
IFI PREVIEW
YOUR FAT FRIEND + Q&A
THE ZONE OF INTEREST
JEANIE FINLAY
JONATHAN GLAZER
THUR 25TH (18.00)
SAT 20TH (15.45), SUN 21ST (15.40), SAT 27TH (18.10)
Returning to the IFI for an encore screening after its sold-out Irish Premiere at the IFI Documentary Festival.
The banality of evil, to use Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase, is chillingly conveyed by German domestic life in the shadow of Auschwitz in Jonathan Glazer’s long-awaited film, his first since Under the Skin in 2013. Loosely adapted from Martin Amis’s novel, Glazer excises all but trace elements of the original plot to forensically examine the core scenario. The title refers to the interessengebiet, the 40-square-kilometre area immediately surrounding the concentration camp, where commandant Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel), his wife Hedwig (Sandra Hüller), and their children live in idyllic serenity, wilfully oblivious to the ever-present gunfire and cries of agony in the near distance, and the black plumes of smoke that billow incessantly from the camp chimneys. Framed by Mica Levi’s ominous score, Glazer’s unsettling, formally inventive film uncovers how atrocity can be normalised.
Aubrey Gordon writes anonymously with candour and humour as ‘Your Fat Friend’ about what it means to be a very fat woman in the world. Her searingly honest writing debunks the lies peddled by the diet industry and examines how bias might be the biggest threat to fat people’s health. Over a six-year period, Jeanie Finlay follows Aubrey’s journey from anonymous blogger to best-selling author and co-host of the Maintenance Phase podcast. Your Fat Friend is a film about fatness, family, the complexities of making changes, and the deep, messy feelings we hold about our bodies. This screening will be followed by a Q&A with director Jeanie Finlay and subject Aubrey Gordon, hosted by Louise McSharry.
96 mins, UK-USA, 2023, Digital Notes by David O'Mahony
The special preview screening on Saturday 27th marks International Holocaust Memorial Day.
105 mins, UK-USA-Poland, 2023, Digital Notes by David O’Mahony
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IFI NEW RELEASES DOCS & CLASSICS
JANUARY 2024 Poor Things
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IFI NEW RELEASES, DOCS & CLASSICS NEW RELEASE
NEW RELEASE
PRISCILLA
POOR THINGS
SOFIA COPPOLA
YORGOS LANTHIMOS
FROM FRI 5TH (PREVIEWS FROM MON 1ST)
FROM FRI 12TH
Priscilla Beaulieu (Cailee Spaeny) is just fourteen years old when she meets Elvis Presley (Jacob Elordi) at a party on a US military base in Germany, 1959. Courteous, respectful, if a little melancholy, he sweeps the young girl off her feet, and before she knows it she is living a rarefied life in Graceland, with The King of Rock-n-Roll and his dad Vernon.
Having recently drowned, Bella (Emma Stone) has, under the grisly and morally questionable ministrations of Dr. Godwin (Willem Dafoe), an unconventional and alarmingly disfigured surgeon in Victorian Scotland, been reanimated with the consciousness of a child. With help from Archibald McCandless (Ramy Youssef), Godwin’s love-struck assistant, the girl rapidly develops, and, as her blossoming libido takes over, she is seduced by Duncan Wedderburn (Mark Ruffalo), a lascivious, foppish cad who whisks the naïve girl away on a ship bound for Lisbon.
Through Priscilla’s eyes, Sofia Coppola tells the unseen side of a great American myth in Elvis and Priscilla’s long courtship and turbulent marriage, from a German army base to his dream-world estate at Graceland, in this deeply felt and ravishingly detailed portrait of love, fantasy, and fame. There will be Open Captioned screenings on Friday 5th at 15.40 and Tuesday 9th at 18.10.
Lanthimos uses this bizarre scenario, adapted from Alasdair Gray’s acclaimed novel, as a vehicle to wryly interrogate notions of identity, sexuality, gender dynamics, nature vs. nurture, and a whole array of other knotty issues. Smart, playful, with brilliant performances, Poor Things proves beyond doubt that Lanthimos is one of the true visionaries of contemporary cinema. There will be Open Captioned screenings on Tuesday 16th at 14.10 and Wednesday 17th at 20.20.
113 mins, USA, 2023, Digital Notes by David O’Mahony
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142 mins, USA-Ireland-UK, 2023, Digital Notes by David O’Mahony
JANUARY 2024 IFI DOC
IFI CLASSIC
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE
THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER
NICOLE NEWNHAM
WERNER HERZOG
FROM FRI 12TH
FROM FRI 19TH
The Hite Report, 1976, a groundbreaking study of the intimate experiences of women, remains one of the bestselling books of all time. Drawn from anonymous survey responses, the book challenged conceptions of sex and opened a dialogue in popular culture around women’s pleasure. Its charismatic author, Shere Hite, a feminist sex researcher and former model, became the public messenger of women’s secret confessions but few remember Shere Hite today. What led to her erasure?
In a masterstroke of casting, Werner Herzog gave the central role of Kaspar Hauser to Bruno S., who had himself been institutionalised for much of his life, giving him a unique understanding of the character. Based on actual events, the film is set in the early part of the nineteenth century, when a young man appears in Nuremberg bearing a note indicating that his name is Kaspar, and that he has spent his life to that point confined in virtual isolation. Quickly becoming a cause célèbre in the scientific community, the near-feral Kaspar, much like Joseph Merrick, is exhibited as a circus sideshow before being rescued by a kindly benefactor, Professor Daumer (Walter Ladengast), under whose tutelage Kaspar flourishes, learning to read and write, and take pleasure in music. However, it is not long before the mystery surrounding Kaspar takes a sinister turn.
Director Nicole Newnham transports viewers back to a time of great societal transformation around sexuality. Her revelatory portrait is a rediscovery of a pioneer who has had an unmistakable influence on current conversations about gender, sexuality, and bodily autonomy, as well as a timely, cautionary tale of what too often happens to women who dare speak out.
118 mins, USA, 2023, Digital Notes by David O’Mahony
(JEDER FÜR SICH UND GOTT GEGEN ALLE)
110 mins, West Germany, 1974, Digital, Subtitled Notes by Kevin Coyne
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IFI NEW RELEASES, DOCS & CLASSICS NEW RELEASE
NEW RELEASE
THE HOLDOVERS
ALL OF US STRANGERS
ALEXANDER PAYNE
ANDREW HAIGH
FROM FRI 19TH
FROM FRI 26TH
With The Holdovers, Alexander Payne gifts us another of his trademark bittersweet comedy dramas, the type of finely wrought low-key gem that has become all too rare in American cinema. The year is 1971; Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti), Professor of Ancient Civilisations at an elite boarding school, has been saddled with the ignominious task of playing caretaker to a bunch of students that are unable to return home over the Christmas holidays. A cantankerous, ornery eccentric, Hunham resolves that the students suffer along with him, forcing them to study the next year’s curriculum ahead of time. Angus (Dominic Sessa), a bright but belligerent 15-year-old, becomes his chief antagonist as the other boys find an escape route; Mary (Da’Vine Joy Randolph), the school’s recently bereaved cook, casts a baleful eye from the sidelines over Paul’s escalating battle of wills with the belligerent teen.
With 45 Years (2015), director Andrew Haigh displayed a Bergmanesque mastery of portraying emotional devastation. Starring Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott, actors already known to excel in roles of surpassing emotional intensity, whether in Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022) or Simon Stephens’s theatre piece Sea Wall, All Of Us Strangers is a beautiful, mysterious, deeply moving meditation on identity, loneliness, love, happiness, and loss that navigates its terrain on an even more profound level. Screenwriter Adam (Scott, giving a career-best performance) lives an isolated life in a soulless tower block. His work on a project vaguely inspired by his relationship with his deceased parents (Claire Foy and an unrecognisable Jamie Bell) is interrupted by his encounters with neighbour Harry (Mescal). As memory, reality, and imagination intertwine, becoming difficult to separate from each other, Adam seeks a stable place of comfort and warmth.
133 mins, USA, 2023, Digital Notes by David O’Mahony
105 mins, UK-USA, 2023, Digital Notes by Kevin Coyne
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JANUARY 2024 NEW RELEASE
SAMSARA
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FROM FRI 26TH Every morning, Amid, a Buddhist teenager, visits an elderly woman’s home to read her Bardo Thödol, The Tibetan Book of the Dead. On her last day, Amid closes his eyes, and meditates alongside her as she embarks on a transformative journey into what lies beyond. The story moves to Tanzania, where a young girl named Juwairiya wakes up to the news that a baby goat has been born. She names it Neema, the Arabic word for blessing. Juwairiya lives with her family in a village on the coast of Zanzibar. Local women farm seaweed and make soap. “Life is change”, Juwairiya's grandmother explains. Two continents, two communities, two belief systems, two sets of experiences and inner lives. Between them lies a sensory pathway; the viewer is only asked to close their eyes and travel with it.
By becoming an IFI Luminary you will directly support the IFI’s unique and vital work in film preservation and education. Luminaries are invited to pledge a gift of €5,000 or more, over one, three and five years, enabling us to continue our ambitious journey to digitise the entire IFI Irish Film Archive and to deliver more digitised material for free worldwide access via an enhanced IFI Archive Player. With the generous support of our Luminaries, we will succeed in future-proofing our past, frame by frame, film by film. If you’re interested in becoming an IFI Luminary, please contact our Development Team at development@irishfilm.ie for more information.
113 mins, Spain, 2023, Digital, Subtitled Notes by David O’Mahony
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STREAMING THIS JANUARY ON IFI@HOME NEW RELEASE
NEW RELEASE
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
ANATOMY OF A FALL
MARTIN SCORSESE
JUSTINE TRIET
NOW STREAMING
FROM MON 22ND
Martin Scorsese’s latest epic recounts events surrounding the discovery of oil on lands owned by the Osage tribe in 1920s Oklahoma, a state newly formed. Ironically, the Osage had been granted this land because it proved largely unsuitable for practical purposes. Those who had so ruthlessly exploited the Osage in that instance were now determined to wrench the land back since the find had made the nation the wealthiest per capita on the planet. Naturally, the most expedient way to do so was through murder, and it is on these murders that Scorsese founds his tale of American history, racism, and greed. WWI veteran Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) is persuaded by his uncle, cattle baron William Hale (Robert De Niro), to successfully woo Mollie (Lily Gladstone), whose oil rights increase as her family is afflicted by a series of unfortunate deaths.
Sandra (Sandra Hüller), a German writer, her French husband Samuel, and their eleven-year-old son Daniel live in a remote town in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead below their chalet, the police question whether he committed suicide or was killed. Samuel’s death is treated as suspicious, presumed murder, and Sandra becomes the main suspect.
206 mins, USA, 2023, Digital Notes from Kevin Coyne
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Justine Triet uses the conventions of the police procedural and the courtroom drama to frame her masterful interrogation of a complicated woman in Anatomy of a Fall, her third feature following In Bed with Victoria and Sibyl (both of which screened at IFI French Film Festival), and by some distance her most accomplished. By turns a gripping whodunnit and a probing character portrait, Anatomy of a Fall proves wholly engrossing, a deserving winner of the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
150 mins, France, 2023, Digital Notes by David O’Mahony
IFI@HOME PRESENTS
MYFRENCH FILMFESTIVAL STREAMING FROM JANUARY 19TH
Rodeo
MyFrenchFilmFestival is an innovative concept designed to showcase the latest generation of French-language filmmakers and give internet users across the globe the chance to discover a selection of French-language feature films and shorts presented at major international festivals, subtitled in many languages.
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