It’s no SECRET that we are getting SENTIMENTAL for our award-winning and award-nominated foreign films so there is No OTHER CHOICE than to screen them all across one wonderful weekend on the big screen at Dendy Powerhouse Outdoor Cinema. Big screen. Warm Summer Nights. Step into the Nouvelle Vague – We’ll save you a seat.
THUR 5 FEBRUARY –THE SECRET AGENT
The most awarded film at Cannes Film Festival and Winner of two Golden Globes, The Secret Agent is based in 1977 Brazil. When a technology expert flees from a mysterious past and returns to his hometown of Recife in search of peace. He soon realizes that the city is far from being the refuge he seeks.
PORTUGESE WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
FRI 6 FEBRUARY – SENTIMENTAL VALUE
From Academy Award® nominee Joachim Trier, director of The Worst Person in the World. Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav (Stellan Skarsgård), a once renowned director. The two sisters must navigate their complicated relationship with their father and deal with an American star (Elle Fanning).
NORWEGIAN & ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
SAT 7 FEBRUARY – NO OTHER CHOICE
Park Chan-wook, the legendary director of Decision to Leave, The Handmaiden and Oldboy, delivers another stylish and biting satire of contemporary capitalism. Man-su (Lee Byung-hun from Squid Game) thinks he has it all until he is abruptly laid off after 25 years of service. Out of desperation, he hits on a solution to find work: eliminate the competition.
KOREAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
SUN 8 FEBRUARY – NOUVELLE VAGUE – Dog Friendly Session
After writing for Cahiers du cinéma, a young Jean-Luc Godard decides making films is the best film criticism. He convinces producer Georges de Beauregard to fund a low-budget feature and creates a treatment with fellow New Wave filmmaker François Truffaut about a gangster couple. The result? Breathless, one of the first features of the Nouvelle Vague era of French cinema.