A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Read More »
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Sister My Sister (1994) Nancy Meckler, Julie Walters, Joely Richardson, Jodhi May
This all-woman production is set in provincial France in the early 1930s. Read More »
A World Apart (1988) Chris Menges, Barbara Hershey, David Suchet, Jodhi May
A White enclave in Johannesburg, South Africa, in the 1960s. Molly Roth, 13 years old, is the daughter of leftist parents Read More »
Rembrandt’s J’Accuse…! (2008) Peter Greenaway, Martin Freeman, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May, Documentary, Mystery
An ‘essayistic’ documentary in which Greenaway’s fierce criticism of today’s visual illiteracy is argued by means of a forensic search of Rembrandt’s Nightwatch. Greenaway explains the background, the context, the conspiracy, the murder and the motives of all its thirty-four painted characters who have conspired to kill for their combined self-advantage. Greenaway leads us through Rembrandt’s paintings into seventeenth-century Amsterdam. He paints a world that is democratic in principle, but is almost entirely ruled by twelve families. The notion exists of these regents as charitable and compassionate entities. However, reality was different.
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