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(This is the reserves page for movies. Raglan Film Festival info is HERE.)
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Three fabulous femmes - Laure Calamy, Olivia Côte and Kristin Scott Thomas - star in the wildly entertaining new comedy from writer/director Marc Fitoussi (Folies Bergère, Call My Agent!) about estranged childhood friends who tentatively reunite for a trip to the Greek Islands.
LE PARISIEN, 4/5 Stars "Wonderful! There is a charm to this bittersweet comedy of two forty-somethings who seek to reinvent their lives. At the end, we are happy and a little sad like coming back from a trip, when everything did not go exactly as planned, but we had some wonderful encounters.
Catherine Balle "
Recently divorced, and watching helplessly as her only son leaves home, Blandine (Côte) is struggling to find her footing again. So when her former best friend Magalie (a scene-stealing Calamy), loud and fearless, suddenly resurfaces, she allows herself to be spontaneous for a change... The two will take the trip they always dreamed of as teenagers, to Amorgos, the amazing location where Luc Besson's The Big Blue was shot.
But as they head off towards their destination, it's soon apparent that Magalie's very different approach to holidaying - and to life - could lead Blandine to her breaking point...and beyond!
TWO TICKETS TO GREECE is an out-and-out crowd-pleaser, a breezily delightful tale of female camaraderie, stoked by laughter, tears and, of course, great scenery.
Director: Marc Fitoussi
Cast: Laure Calamy, Olivia Côte, Kristin Scott Thomas
M Violence, offensive language, sexual references & nudity 110mins | French with English subtitles
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The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Graeme Tuckett Stuff-Waikato Times, 5/5 Stars "Not just Christopher Nolan's best, but one of this century's key movies."
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.
The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer.
Oscar® winner Matt Damon portrays General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey, Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Academy Award® nominee Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber and Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence.
Oppenheimer also stars Oscar® winner Rami Malek and reunites Nolan with eight-time Oscar® nominated actor, writer and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: David Krumholtz,Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh, Jason Clarke, Rami Malek, Emily Blunt, Dane DeHaan, Olivia Thirlby, David Dastmalchian, Matt Damon, Josh Hartnett, Matthew Modine, Matthias Schweighöfer, Alden Ehrenreich, Florence Pugh, Tony Goldwyn, Benny Safdie, Jack Quaid, Alex Wolff, Michael Angarano, Robert Downey Jr., Dylan Arnold
M Sex scenes, offensive language, nudity & suicide 180mins | USA, UK
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BIF: 2023 Award for Best International Independent Film
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best First Film
STUFF - WAIKATO TIMES, James Croot 5/5 Stars An evocative, emotion-inducing romantic drama that will overwhelm you when you least expect it. A pitch-perfect paean to childhood crushes and lost loves.
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. 20 years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
Director: Celine Song
Producers: Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, David Hinojosa
Actors: John Magaro, Teo Yoo, Jojo T. Gibbs, Greta Lee
Screenwriters: Celine Song
M Offensive language 106 mins| English and Korean with English subtitles
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BIF: 2023 Award for Best International Independent Film
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best First Film
STUFF - WAIKATO TIMES, James Croot 5/5 Stars An evocative, emotion-inducing romantic drama that will overwhelm you when you least expect it. A pitch-perfect paean to childhood crushes and lost loves.
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. 20 years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
Director: Celine Song
Producers: Christine Vachon, Pamela Koffler, David Hinojosa
Actors: John Magaro, Teo Yoo, Jojo T. Gibbs, Greta Lee
Screenwriters: Celine Song
M Offensive language 106 mins| English and Korean with English subtitles
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Three fabulous femmes - Laure Calamy, Olivia Côte and Kristin Scott Thomas - star in the wildly entertaining new comedy from writer/director Marc Fitoussi (Folies Bergère, Call My Agent!) about estranged childhood friends who tentatively reunite for a trip to the Greek Islands.
LE PARISIEN, 4/5 Stars "Wonderful! There is a charm to this bittersweet comedy of two forty-somethings who seek to reinvent their lives. At the end, we are happy and a little sad like coming back from a trip, when everything did not go exactly as planned, but we had some wonderful encounters.
Catherine Balle "
Recently divorced, and watching helplessly as her only son leaves home, Blandine (Côte) is struggling to find her footing again. So when her former best friend Magalie (a scene-stealing Calamy), loud and fearless, suddenly resurfaces, she allows herself to be spontaneous for a change... The two will take the trip they always dreamed of as teenagers, to Amorgos, the amazing location where Luc Besson's The Big Blue was shot.
But as they head off towards their destination, it's soon apparent that Magalie's very different approach to holidaying - and to life - could lead Blandine to her breaking point...and beyond!
TWO TICKETS TO GREECE is an out-and-out crowd-pleaser, a breezily delightful tale of female camaraderie, stoked by laughter, tears and, of course, great scenery.
Director: Marc Fitoussi
Cast: Laure Calamy, Olivia Côte, Kristin Scott Thomas
M Violence, offensive language, sexual references & nudity 110mins | French with English subtitles
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The story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer and his role in the development of the atomic bomb.
Graeme Tuckett Stuff-Waikato Times, 5/5 Stars "Not just Christopher Nolan's best, but one of this century's key movies."
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer is an epic thriller that thrusts audiences into the pulse-pounding paradox of the enigmatic man who must risk destroying the world in order to save it.
The film stars Cillian Murphy as J. Robert Oppenheimer and Emily Blunt as his wife, biologist and botanist Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer.
Oscar® winner Matt Damon portrays General Leslie Groves Jr., director of the Manhattan Project, and Robert Downey, Jr. plays Lewis Strauss, a founding commissioner of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Academy Award® nominee Florence Pugh plays psychiatrist Jean Tatlock, Benny Safdie plays theoretical physicist Edward Teller, Michael Angarano plays Robert Serber and Josh Hartnett plays pioneering American nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence.
Oppenheimer also stars Oscar® winner Rami Malek and reunites Nolan with eight-time Oscar® nominated actor, writer and filmmaker Kenneth Branagh.
Director: Christopher Nolan
Cast: David Krumholtz,Cillian Murphy, Kenneth Branagh, Jason Clarke, Rami Malek, Emily Blunt, Dane DeHaan, Olivia Thirlby, David Dastmalchian, Matt Damon, Josh Hartnett, Matthew Modine, Matthias Schweighöfer, Alden Ehrenreich, Florence Pugh, Tony Goldwyn, Benny Safdie, Jack Quaid, Alex Wolff, Michael Angarano, Robert Downey Jr., Dylan Arnold
M Sex scenes, offensive language, nudity & suicide 180mins | USA, UK
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Three teenage girlfriends navigate sex, consent, and friendships old and new on a euphoric post-exams vacation on a Greek party island.
British Independent Film Awards 2023:
Cannes 2023:
GUARDIAN Wendy Idea 5/5 Stars "How to Have Sex review – two stars are born with this searing study of consent "
It’s supposed to be the best summer ever. Tara, Skye and Em touch down on the Greek party resort of Malia for the vacation to end all vacations, the girls trip every British teenager ticks off at the cusp of adulthood. Tara, the last remaining virgin, is on a mission to change that: and her best friends are causing chaos right alongside her. The 16-year-old drinks and dances her way through the strip – with all its messy bars and grimy nightclubs – until she meets a couple of boys on the neighbouring hotel balcony who she hopes might give her a summer to remember.
Making her debut feature with a vibrant, compassionate look at sex, friendship and the sweet smell of a boozy sunburned summer holiday, director and cinematographer Molly Manning Walker (Scrapper, Good Thanks, You?) paints an exhilarating, moving, and painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood.
Director: Molly Manning Walker
Producers: Ivana Mackinnon (Beast), Emily Leo (Under The Shadow), Konstantinos Kontovrakis (Triangle of Sadness)
Starring: Mia McKenna Bruce (Vampire Academy), Lara Peake (Born To
Kill), Sam Bottomley (Somewhere Boy), Shaun Thomas (Four Lives), Enva Lewis, Laura Ambler
TBC 98 mins | UK
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Three teenage girlfriends navigate sex, consent, and friendships old and new on a euphoric post-exams vacation on a Greek party island.
British Independent Film Awards 2023:
Cannes 2023:
GUARDIAN Wendy Idea 5/5 Stars "How to Have Sex review – two stars are born with this searing study of consent "
It’s supposed to be the best summer ever. Tara, Skye and Em touch down on the Greek party resort of Malia for the vacation to end all vacations, the girls trip every British teenager ticks off at the cusp of adulthood. Tara, the last remaining virgin, is on a mission to change that: and her best friends are causing chaos right alongside her. The 16-year-old drinks and dances her way through the strip – with all its messy bars and grimy nightclubs – until she meets a couple of boys on the neighbouring hotel balcony who she hopes might give her a summer to remember.
Making her debut feature with a vibrant, compassionate look at sex, friendship and the sweet smell of a boozy sunburned summer holiday, director and cinematographer Molly Manning Walker (Scrapper, Good Thanks, You?) paints an exhilarating, moving, and painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood.
Director: Molly Manning Walker
Producers: Ivana Mackinnon (Beast), Emily Leo (Under The Shadow), Konstantinos Kontovrakis (Triangle of Sadness)
Starring: Mia McKenna Bruce (Vampire Academy), Lara Peake (Born To
Kill), Sam Bottomley (Somewhere Boy), Shaun Thomas (Four Lives), Enva Lewis, Laura Ambler
TBC 98 mins | UK
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