Jafar Panahi’s (No Bears) critically acclaimed and deserving Palme d’Or winner is a muscular thriller and an engaging morality tale for our times.
Screening here in 35mm, Orson Welles’s beautiful, nostalgia-suffused second feature—the subject of one of cinema’s greatest missing-footage tragedies—harks back to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Indianapolis, chronicling the inexorable decline of the fortunes of an affluent family.
Contemporary cinema’s favourite detective Benoit Blanc returns in Rian Johnson’s sharply penned and devilishly fun reinvention of the classic whodunit.