Kate Winslet stars as Lee Miller – the fashion model turned war photographer for British Vogue. She bears witness to the terrible aftermath of WWIl in her new role and even gets into Hitler’s private flat and poses in his bath – a photoshot intended to shock.
She battles against prejudice as a woman war photographer which seems to give her an impetus to press further in her work.
Lee Miller lived in Sussex with her husband, Roland Penrose, an artist and art critic.
A tale of Barbe-Nicole Ponsardin Clicquo who defied French vintner patriarchy and survived calamities to create one of the world’s finest champagnes.
Underlying the movie is a love story told in flashbacks, but what prevails is a fascinating tale of a celebrated drink that, even with a certain conventionality, never loses its subtle charm and remarkable tastefulness.
A tale of Syrian refugees and asylum seekers set in the summer of 2016, just after the Brexit vote. The Old Oak is the local pub where the landlord is only just hanging on due to deprivation and poverty in the village. Не refuses to get involved in the issues of the refugees. While some in the community have some sympathy with the refugees there is hostility at the apparent benefits the refugees get.
He gradually softens towards the refugees and together with Yara, the young Syrian woman, organises a food kitchen where the community can get together socialise and gradually get to understand each other. It is a complex film with issues such as Brexit, racism, poverty and alienation running throughout.
This documentry film based on Isabella Tree’s best-selling book Wilding tells the story of Knepp, and how a dying landscape is healed against the odds and becomes a place where mussel-diving pigs, storks and butterflies find sanctuary, and where thriving flora and a vast array of animals have taken back the land.
Watch this incredible story of a young couple that set to work with their ground-breaking vision, battling entrenched tradition and daring to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature, and be inspired by this story of rewilding and ecological regeneration.
Sandra, a writer and her husband Samuel and their eleven-year-old son live a secluded life in a remote town in the French Alps.
Samuel is found dead in the snow and the police question whether this is a suicide or a murder with Sandra being the main suspect and her son the only witness. The trial becomes an unsettling journey into the depths of Sandra and Samuel’s conflicted relationship.
Director Justine Triet. Palme d’or winner. French with English subtitles.
