Annette Bening captivates as a single mother enlisting Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning to help raise her 15-year-old son in this funny, nuanced memoir of late-70s lifestyles from director Mike Mills (Beginners).
Films — by Title
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![The Beguiled](/assets/resized/sm/upload/tx/53/uz/31/453391%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=4b7f40b773)
The Beguiled
Colin Farrell plays a wounded Civil War mercenary under the care of a commune of young women, led by Nicole Kidman, in Sofia Coppola’s beautiful, feminist take on Don Siegel’s 1971 Southern Gothic psychodrama.
![Beuys: Art As a Weapon](/assets/resized/sm/upload/87/0w/f5/p2/BEUYS_Horchen%20KEY-rgb-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=791de2c4ac)
Beuys: Art As a Weapon
This archive-packed documentary provides a tantalising introduction to the life and work of Joseph Beuys, the revolutionary German artist of the 70s and 80s, celebrated for his artworks, performances and politics.
![BIG Time](/assets/resized/sm/upload/6u/xi/mu/fn/BIG_TIME_12%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=ce4a966a92)
BIG Time
BIG Time gets up close with Danish architectural prodigy Bjarke Ingels over a period of six years while he is struggling to complete his largest projects yet, the Manhattan skyscraper W57 and Two World Trade Center.
![Blue](/assets/resized/sm/upload/si/5o/tl/q5/blue1%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=0072adad57)
Blue
Filmed over two years in Indonesia, the Philippines, Hawaii and Australia, this beautifully crafted wake-up call to the state of the earth’s oceans profiles inspiring individuals working to preserve and protect marine life.
![Born in China](/assets/resized/sm/upload/5a/rq/5d/43/Born_In_China_02_KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=d040bf2295)
Born in China
Disney’s famed nature documentary unit brings the epic journey of three animal families enduring China’s vast and unforgiving terrain spectacularly to the big screen.
![BPM (Beats Per Minute)](/assets/resized/sm/upload/np/0l/1q/us/120BattementsParMinute%E2%88%8FCeline_Nieszawer_Photo087_KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=158f7b6c57)
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
120 battements par minute
A wary newcomer to the radical activist life risks his heart with one of its firecracker stars in this stirring and moving exploration of the ACT UP movement that protested government inaction on AIDS in the 90s.
![Brigsby Bear](/assets/resized/sm/upload/4c/7c/ra/lk/brigsbybear1_KEY.jpg_rgb-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=093187e96b)
Brigsby Bear
This weird and wonderful indie comedy stars Saturday Night Live’s Kyle Mooney as a man totally obsessed with a TV show about a bear saving the world. Also starring Greg Kinnear, Mark Hamill, Claire Danes.
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![Call Me by Your Name](/assets/resized/sm/upload/lc/4n/gp/er/callmebyyourname2%20.jpg_rgb-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=919a712f83)
Call Me by Your Name
This gorgeous and moving adaptation of André Aciman’s acclaimed novel, directed by Luca Guadagnino (I Am Love), stars Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet as lovers in sun-kissed northern Italy.
![Citizen Jane: Battle for the City](/assets/resized/sm/upload/h1/wi/pi/bm/CITIZEN%20JANE_KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=4c87dd97d3)
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City
This fascinating documentary about urban planning considers the continuing relevance of the showdown, half a century ago, between the activist Jane Jacobs and the Trumpian Robert Moses: a fight for the future of New York.
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![A Date for Mad Mary](/assets/resized/sm/upload/xm/lz/ft/v2/KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=8ef682288a)
A Date for Mad Mary
Sent only a single invitation, dry, sarcastic, maddening Mary (marvellous Seána Kerslake) sets out to find a date for her best friend’s wedding in this barbed and funny Irish romcom.
![Dries](/assets/resized/sm/upload/mi/zo/n7/2s/1%20TEMP%20KEY_Dries_Van_Noten11-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=a6efdc4247)
Dries
The 30-year career of prolific Belgian fashion designer Dries Van Noten is celebrated in this doco, which visits the designer’s atelier and home while following his production of four collections a year.
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![Ethel & Ernest](/assets/resized/sm/upload/dq/gk/pu/yd/ETHEL_&_ERNEST_breakfast%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=99aff4c653)
Ethel & Ernest
This animated adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ graphic memoir of his parents’ lives is both humble and profound, with gorgeous renderings of Briggs’ justly famous lines. Featuring the voices of Jim Broadbent and Brenda Blethyn.
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![Faces Places](/assets/resized/sm/upload/45/xm/or/dv/AVJR%20Goat%20South%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=534f7a62ee)
Faces Places
Visages villages
In this utterly charming documentary, octogenarian French director Agnès Varda takes to the road with the young photo-muralist JR, creating artworks, looking up old friends and finding new ones.
![A Fantastic Woman](/assets/resized/sm/upload/1r/0q/wh/vz/1%20KEY_UMF-F1A_R_01-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=a30342cc2b)
A Fantastic Woman
Una mujer fantástica
Rising Chilean director Sebastián Lelio (Gloria) celebrates the endurance of a woman under suspicion of murder in a film that heralds a stellar debut for transgender actress Daniela Vega.
![The Farthest](/assets/resized/sm/upload/6q/hp/5j/50/KEY%20FARTHEST%20PUBLICITY%20STILLS%20FROM%20FILM%20-%20Voyager%20Float-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=0bae26e953)
The Farthest
The incredible journey of the Voyager spaceship is retraced by the women and men closest to the action in this exhilarating big-screen documentary.
![Frantz](/assets/resized/sm/upload/y1/eu/tm/uy/1%20TEMP%20KEY%20Frantz%20-%20artwork%20image-crop-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=f6b229d545)
Frantz
This elegantly mounted drama explores regeneration in the aftermath of World War I through the complex relationship of a young German woman (Anna Beer) and a French soldier (Pierre Niney) brought together by shared loss.
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![Gabriel and the Mountain](/assets/resized/sm/upload/m4/ft/g1/si/05_00111761_KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=eaca3f865f)
Gabriel and the Mountain
Gabriel e a montanha
Brazilian Fellipe Barbosa’s richly layered road movie retraces his friend’s Africa-on-$3-a-day travels through Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia, based on the fond recollections of the people he befriended along the way.
![A Ghost Story](/assets/resized/sm/upload/p7/vv/gc/vc/1_KEY%20AGhostStory-FullRes1-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=80be1c0267)
A Ghost Story
A simple story told with the simplest means, A Ghost Story tracks the progress of a ghost who can’t let go of the woman he loved and the house they shared, evoking a profoundly moving sense of existential disquiet.
![Good Time](/assets/resized/sm/upload/sb/ky/22/4h/Good-Time-3%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=f1596e4f40)
Good Time
In this adrenalised Cannes sensation from guerrilla-filmmaker siblings Josh and Benny Safdie, Robert Pattinson is riveting as a small-time criminal on a frantic nocturnal odyssey to break his brother out of custody.
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![Happy End](/assets/resized/sm/upload/qi/0k/yw/qe/HAPPY%20END_KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=c998ba1298)
Happy End
Jean-Louis Trintignant is the failing patriarch and Isabelle Huppert his daughter in this satirical dissection of a powerful French construction dynasty from Austrian director Michael Haneke (Amour, Caché).
![House of Z](/assets/resized/sm/upload/5a/ru/6t/dr/ZP-Campbell%20KEY%20FOR%20PRINT-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=5b7f4a500a)
House of Z
The meteoric rise, fall and rise again of the prodigiously talented fashion designer Zac Posen is documented with sympathy and a little suspense in a many-storied documentary, packed full of his splendid creations.
![Human Traces](/assets/resized/sm/upload/7o/jd/is/3x/HumanTraces_DM1246%20TEMP%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=137c556ad4)
Human Traces
Shot on location against the rugged backdrop of the Canterbury and Otago coasts, this atmospheric Kiwi thriller marks a confident calling card for its up-and-coming writer-director.
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![I Am Not a Witch](/assets/resized/sm/upload/vk/8d/6z/08/I_Am_Not_A_Witch-1%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=f11595b093)
I Am Not a Witch
Set in Zambia, the birthplace of writer-director Rungano Nyoni, this strange, engrossing feature addresses the continuing marginalisation of ‘witches’ and revolves around a nine-year-old girl accused of witchcraft.
![I Am Not Your Negro](/assets/resized/sm/upload/cp/jr/np/oj/6_KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=eba0d090d9)
I Am Not Your Negro
This Oscar-nominated documentary draws an astonishing, challenging and utterly contemporary examination of race in the United States entirely from the writings and interview footage of civil rights icon James Baldwin.
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![Kedi](/assets/resized/sm/upload/2t/0a/2i/61/10%20-%20Kamil%20in%20KEDI-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=8e6a95bc23)
Kedi
More than just another example of cute kittens on camera, this documentary about the cats of Istanbul and the people who watch out for them exudes charm and insight that a million YouTube videos cannot match.
![Kiki, Love to Love](/assets/resized/sm/upload/m5/6k/dr/5v/KIKI_18%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=3da88698c1)
Kiki, Love to Love
Kiki, el amor se hace
Anyone for harpaxophilia? How about somnophilia? In five intertwined mini-romcoms, a scorching summer heatwave intensifies the very particular desires of a collection of Madrid lovers. A major hit at the Spanish box office.
![The Killing of a Sacred Deer](/assets/resized/sm/upload/5y/d6/5p/bq/Killing%20of%20a%20Sacred%20Deer%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=3fdac21f6e)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Reuniting with his Lobster director, Colin Farrell plays a surgeon, husband and father of two whose placid domestic life is slowly, insidiously disrupted by the persistent demands of a teenage stalker.
![Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web](/assets/resized/sm/upload/3c/jw/mf/jr/Key%20Image%20Kim%20Dotcom%20Caught%20in%20the%20Web%20by%20Nigel%20Marple-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=a3af2f3eba)
Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web
As Annie Goldson’s impressively detailed documentary clearly sets out the battle between Dotcom and the US Government and entertainment industry, it goes to the heart of ownership, privacy and piracy in the digital age.
![Kobi](/assets/resized/sm/upload/y6/6h/cw/u1/Kobi%202%20colour%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=9be2a8df09)
Kobi
This warm and humorous doco about Kobi Bosshard, widely regarded as the grandfather of contemporary New Zealand jewellery, explores his philosophy of life and work, as captured by his daughter Andrea Bosshard.
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![Lady Macbeth](/assets/resized/sm/upload/kr/lm/x2/oi/1%20KEY_THE%20YOUNG%20LADY10-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=3efb42087b)
Lady Macbeth
Florence Pugh is mesmerising as she transmutes from nervous bride to femme fatale in this bracing British period drama based on a 19th century Russian classic.
![Let the Sunshine In](/assets/resized/sm/upload/l3/15/7g/lk/BRIGHT%20SUNSHINE%20IN%20PHOTO%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=0b6a15856d)
Let the Sunshine In
Un beau soleil interieur
Juliette Binoche lights up every frame of Claire Denis’ frank and rueful dramedy of romantic hope springing eternal, written in collaboration with the controversially confessional novelist and playwright Christine Angot.
![The Lost City of Z](/assets/resized/sm/upload/5i/mr/38/34/Lost_City_Of_Z_04%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=03a731ffd9)
The Lost City of Z
Charlie Hunnam makes a commanding flawed hero as British Amazon explorer Percy Fawcett in a sweeping giant screen epic, filmed with rare intelligence by writer/director James Gray. With Sienna Miller and Robert Pattinson.
![Loveless](/assets/resized/sm/upload/31/ww/pj/ms/dsc3765%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=d3cecaf67b)
Loveless
Nelyubov
Andrey Zvyagintsev (Leviathan) won the Cannes Jury Prize for his stark and gripping tale of a divorcing couple caught in a missing-child procedural.
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![Maudie](/assets/resized/sm/upload/jc/is/uf/7v/KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=41f5a825fa)
Maudie
Sally Hawkins delivers an unforgettable performance as Nova Scotian folk artist Maud Lewis, irrepressible despite arthritis and a churlish husband (Ethan Hawke), in this gently flowing biopic set in the 1930s.
![The Midwife](/assets/resized/sm/upload/7b/j0/iq/e4/SAGE%20FEMME-3-photo.Michaal.Crotto%20KEY-web-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=33c7cef558)
The Midwife
Sage femme
Catherine Frot stars as a conscientious midwife reluctantly reconnecting with Catherine Deneuve as the flamboyant step-mother who absconded 30 years earlier, in this lively drama from writer/director Martin Provost (Séraphine)
![A Monster Calls](/assets/resized/sm/upload/y4/5o/4s/47/266860-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=0c3f6b66d0)
A Monster Calls
A story-telling monster (voiced by Liam Neeson) helps a sleeping boy with his waking-life nightmares in this adaptation of Patrick Ness’ novel, spectacularly realised with lavish CGI and painterly animations.
![Mountain](/assets/resized/sm/upload/9l/rb/zd/51/201410_Camp4BeatDown_239%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=5926717189)
Mountain
A spectacular musical and cinematic collaboration, Jennifer Peedom’s new movie exalts the spellbinding force of the world’s great mountains – and the power they exercise over the human imagination.
![My Life As a Courgette (Dubbed)](/assets/resized/sm/upload/kg/uc/x2/v7/1%20KEY_My_Life_as_a_Zucchini_05-crop-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=23d672a8f6)
My Life As a Courgette (Dubbed)
My Life As a Zucchini
This soulful and subversive Oscar-nominated feature uses stop-motion animation to tell the story of an orphan named Courgette. From the key animator on Fantastic Mr Fox, and adapted for the screen by Girlhood’s Céline Sciamma.
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![New Zealand’s Best 2017](/assets/resized/sm/upload/9z/ja/xa/2k/10600-IS17_DoNoHarm_Still2_byAaronBurgess.jpg_cmyk-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=6f537392c0)
New Zealand’s Best 2017
Check out the year’s best New Zealand short films as chosen by this year’s guest selector Gaylene Preston, from a shortlist drawn up by NZIFF programmers from a total of 83 entries.
![Ngā Whanaunga Māori Pasifika Shorts 2017](/assets/resized/sm/upload/4f/qw/9t/au/tama_02_publicity%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=e9248c7138)
Ngā Whanaunga Māori Pasifika Shorts 2017
Check out the latest and best Māori and Pasifika short films as selected for NZIFF by Leo Koziol, Director of the Wairoa Māori Film Festival, and Craig Fasi, Director of the Pollywood Film Festival.
![No Ordinary Sheila](/assets/resized/sm/upload/9e/0t/o1/ks/Drawing%20at%20Palmer%20Bay%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=f2d2112574)
No Ordinary Sheila
In Hugh Macdonald’s fascinating and inspiring doco, his cousin, writer and illustrator Sheila Natusch, retraces a long life dedicated to sharing her understanding and love of New Zealand’s nature and history.
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![The Other Side of Hope](/assets/resized/sm/upload/oq/7i/tq/o1/L_AUTRE_COTE_DE_L_ESPOIR_photo4%EF%BF%BDSputnik_Oy_(Photographe_Malla_Hukkanen)%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=e300ecc3b3)
The Other Side of Hope
Toivon tuolla puolen
A Syrian stowaway lands up in Helsinki and finds refuge working in the worst restaurant in town in this funny, gorgeously filmed new tragicomedy from Finland hangdog maestro, Aki Kaurismäki.
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![The Party](/assets/resized/sm/upload/ls/h0/hr/eb/Party,%20The%20KEY%20new-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=37c23375d3)
The Party
“This sketch of an ambitious Westminster politician and dinner-party hostess (Kristin Scott Thomas), whose life comes spectacularly apart before the canapés are even served, is a consummate drawing-room divertissement, played with relish by a dream ensemble.” — Guy Lodge, Variety
![Patti Cake$](/assets/resized/sm/upload/k2/a0/66/s8/KEY%20-%20Still%201_Danielle%20Macdonald%20as%20Patti%20Dombrowski%20in%20PATTI%20CAKE$_Credit_Jeong%20Park-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=f2b6cc41ca)
Patti Cake$
Music video director Geremy Jasper launches an unlikely rap star – a plus-size, white New Jersey rapper played by Aussie sensation Danielle Macdonald – in this high-energy feature debut.
![Pop Aye](/assets/resized/sm/upload/qv/rw/3c/cc/1%20KEY_po_aye_still2-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=e9d88bfe78)
Pop Aye
This quietly charming, slightly surreal road movie features a bromance between an over-the-hill architect and his long-lost pet elephant as they escape Bangkok and head back to their village hometown.
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![RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World](/assets/resized/sm/upload/vt/px/lm/bu/1-Link%20Wray%201970s-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=54dc3bf899)
RUMBLE: The Indians Who Rocked the World
This revealing tribute to Native American musicians, crammed with concert footage, celebrates their little credited contributions to popular contemporary music from blues to jazz, from Hendrix to Metallica.
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![Seven Rivers Walking – Haere Mārire](/assets/resized/sm/upload/lu/a4/4a/hs/ORARI%20-%20Rafting%20with%20the%20cows-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=f9399dc517)
Seven Rivers Walking – Haere Mārire
With walkers, rafters, anglers and farmers, this documentary journeys from the alpine to spring rivers of Canterbury, exploring above and below the surfaces in search of ways through a freshwater crisis.
![The Square](/assets/resized/sm/upload/js/pa/jr/vy/THE%20SQUARE%201%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=d305da502c)
The Square
Winner of the Cannes Palme d’Or, Ruben Östlund’s The Square is an astounding work of social satire centred on a Swedish art museum and a PR stunt that goes horribly wrong. Starring Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Terry Notary.
![Stay](/assets/resized/sm/upload/tt/km/td/34/Stay%20%5B010616%5D-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=d18309f0b7)
Stay (Short)
The lives of June and her pet dog Lucas change forever. Screening with Kedi.
![Step](/assets/resized/sm/upload/06/de/50/ee/STEP-575%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=d95b91a13c)
Step
Fighting the tough realities of their disadvantaged neighbourhood, Step follows three irrepressible young women in an enlightened Baltimore school as they prepare for college – and rehearse for step dance glory.
![Summer 1993](/assets/resized/sm/upload/dk/yd/tb/vb/1%20key%20still-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=706211169b)
Summer 1993
Estiu 1993
Catalan director Carla Simón’s award-winning dramatisation of her own experience as a six-year-old orphan adjusting to a new life in the country features the most remarkable and mesmerising child performances in years.
![Swallows and Amazons](/assets/resized/sm/upload/uu/q8/zj/hq/SWALLOWS&AMAZONS_28JUNE2015_0025%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=e2578de3dc)
Swallows and Amazons
In this new adaptation of a British classic, four plucky kids escape the tedium of a housebound Lake District summer holiday, and set off on their own for capers of the dinghy sailing and foiling dastardly spies variety.
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![The Teacher](/assets/resized/sm/upload/i5/eg/22/f7/go-1%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=15f457714a)
The Teacher
Učitelka
When accused of bartering her students’ grades for goods and services provided by their parents, a schoolteacher mounts a devious defence in this blackly funny dramedy set in the communist era.
![TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home](/assets/resized/sm/upload/qu/00/pa/qx/Thuten%20Kesang_photo%20Robin%20Greenberg%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=e741bda4e4)
TEAM TIBET: Home away from Home
Thuten Kesang, New Zealand’s first Tibetan refugee in 1967, recounts his fascinating and inspiring story and the environmental and political issues that have made him a tireless advocate of the Tibetan cause.
![That’s Not Me](/assets/resized/sm/upload/9v/q2/9t/qq/TNM-Alice_Foulcher-Rowan_Davie-Photographer-Catharine_Neilson%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=29b9d3b6e2)
That’s Not Me
A wannabe star is gutted by her identical twin sister’s HBO success – plus she’s dating Jared Leto – then decides to take advantage in this wry Aussie comedy of outsized fantasies and bad behaviour.
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![Unrest](/assets/resized/sm/upload/2f/h5/6k/u8/unrest_eeg_horizontal_blue%20KEY-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=fa514bbd9e)
Unrest
Suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome but told by her doctor it was all in her head, journalist and academic Jennifer Brea started filming from her bed, contacting other sufferers via Skype, to explore the little understood condition.
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![A Woman’s Life](/assets/resized/sm/upload/dg/xv/dr/0x/1%20KEY_UNE%20VIE_Photo%2010%20%E2%88%8F%20TS%20Productions%20(photographe%20Micha%C3%A2l%20Crotto)-0-520-0-390-crop.jpg?k=7707686613)
A Woman’s Life
Une vie
In a literary adaptation styled with striking immediacy, Stéphane Brizé relates the tragedy of an adventurous young 19th-century noblewoman harshly judged for an unfortunate marriage.