In 1960, a young Irish woman named Edna O’Brien wrote The Country Girls, the first of a sexually-frank trilogy of novels. Though the books were banned in Ireland, O’Brien became an international literary sensation, gaining fame and notoriety through her... Read More
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17-year-old Sam (Lily Collias) is preparing to leave for a camping trip with her divorced father Chris (Lames Le Gros), and his best friend Matt (Danny McCarthy), whose son has elected to stay at home, making Sam the sole youngster.... Read More
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18-year-old Totone (Clement Faveau) lives in the Jura region in south-east France, an area renowned for its dairy cows, agricultural festivals, and award winning Comté cheese. Totone just wants to have fun with his friends, get drunk, and chase girls,... Read More
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On the run from the police and the gang he let down following a botched robbery, twenty-one-year-old Heraldo (Iago Xavier) seeks refuge at the Motel Destino, a neon-lit roadside sex hotel on Brazil’s north-eastern coast in Karim Aïnouz’s gripping erotic... Read More
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Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) returns to Naples, the city of his birth, for this languorous, swooningly romantic chronicle of the eponymous Parthenope (Celeste Dalla Porta in her feature debut), born in 1950 and named after a siren in Homer’s Odyssey... Read More
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Thibaut (Benjamin Lavernhe), an internationally renowned orchestra conductor, is diagnosed with leukaemia, and is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant. His search for a donor leads him to discover that that he was adopted, a revelation that introduces... Read More
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Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend, Chris (Bowen Yang), and facing pressure to marry from his wealthy family (to whom he hasn’t yet come out), Min (Han Gi-chan), a queer Korean man living in the US, proposes a marriage of convenience... Read More
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