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Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan star in this British drama about
a group of military wives who come together to form a choir. With their
husbands deployed in Afghanistan, their wives left behind at their
English military base form a choir, led by officers' wives Kate (Scott
Thomas) and Lisa (Horgan), to cope with their husbands' absence and
take their minds off the conflict. What begins with some performances
in the local village culminates in a televised concert performance at
the Festival of Remembrance in London's Royal Albert Hall.
Janet has just been appointed to a key ministerial position in the shadow cabinet, the crowning achievement of her political career. She and her husband Bill plan to celebrate this with a few close friends. As the guests arrive at their home in London the party takes an unexpected turn when Bill suddenly makes some explosive revelations that take everyone present by surprise. Love, friendships and political convictions are soon called into question in this hilarious comedy of tragic proportions. From acclaimed British filmmaker Sally Potter, this witty, sharp and very fun new comedy features a star studded cast and is shot in black & white.
Inspired by real events and from the director of The Full Monty (Peter Cattaneo), Military Wives is the heartfelt story of friendship, love, and support on the home front. When Kate persuades a disparate group of women on the base to form the Military Wives Choir, Lisa is initially sceptical and embarrassed by such an amateur bunch. However, she is quickly transformed by the choir's friendship, humour and courage. Finding their voice together, Kate, Lisa and the choir put aside their own personal differences and, by singing their hearts out, bring joy, hope and strength to the world.
Robert Pattinson and Uma Thurman star in this sumptuous Paris-set period drama based on the novella by Guy de Maupassant. Georges Duroy (Pattinson) is a suave and handsome young journalist using his wits and powers of manipulation to make his way in 1890s Paris. In order to ascend the social ladder, Duroy seduces a string of influential society beauties including Madeleine Forestier (Thurman), Virginie Walters (Kristen Scott Thomas) and Clotilde de Marelle (Christina Ricci). His peasant background has soon become a distant memory as he achieves dizzying success both in his career and in fashionable society.
Sam Taylor Wood's directorial debut is a chronicle of John Lennon's teenage years. Set in 1950s Liverpool, the film tells the story of the spirited but troubled fifteen-year-old Lennon (Aaron Johnson), who finds himself caught in the crossfire between his formidable Aunt Mimi (Kristin Scott Thomas) and his mother Julia (Anne-Marie Duff). When John meets fellow musician and kindred spirit Paul McCartney (Thomas Sangster), his creative genius at last finds an outlet and the most famous partnership in music is born. But just as John's new life begins, a dark truth from his past leads to a tragedy he will never escape.
French drama starring Kristin Scott Thomas. Suzanne (Scott Thomas) is a comfortably wealthy wife and mother living with her doctor husband, Samuel (Yvan Attal), and their teenage children in the South of France. Tired of her idle, bourgeois lifestyle, Suzanne decides to resume her career as a physiotherapist, and begins to renovate an outbuilding in the garden as a clinic. When she meets Ivan (Sergi Lopez), the handyman hired to do the building work, she falls violently in love with him, and has soon decided to give up everything - husband, children, money and home - to follow her passions.
Lying low in Bangkok ten years after killing a cop, Julian runs a Thai boxing club as a cover for his family's drugs business. But when his brother kills a local prostitute, and is then slain in retribution, Julian's mother Jenna arrives in the city demanding that he track down the killer and mete out revenge. After learning that the man responsible is a retired police officer and lone dispenser of justice known as 'The Angel of Vengeance', Julian, confident of success, sets out to find him, little realising what he has taken on.
Robert Pattinson and Uma Thurman star in this sumptuous Paris-set period drama based on the novella by Guy de Maupassant. Georges Duroy (Pattinson) is a suave and handsome young journalist using his wits and powers of manipulation to make his way in 1890s Paris. In order to ascend the social ladder, Duroy seduces a string of influential society beauties including Madeleine Forestier (Thurman), Virginie Walters (Kristen Scott Thomas) and Clotilde de Marelle (Christina Ricci). His peasant background has soon become a distant memory as he achieves dizzying success both in his career and in fashionable society.
A Jewish girl's story opens wounds from France's wartime past in this drama from director Gilles Paquet-Brenner. Living in Paris while her architect husband Bertrand (Frederic Pierrot) restores his family's apartment block, writer Julia Jarmond (Kristin Scott Thomas) stumbles across the wartime history of the block's original Jewish owners, who were arrested by the Vichy government as part of the notorious Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of 1942 and forced to sell their property. As the story unfolds, Julia becomes increasingly haunted by the fate of ten-year-old Sarah Starzynski (Melusine Mayance), who, after being detained, escapes in a desperate attempt to return to the block where she has secretly hidden her younger brother.
Philippe Claudel directs this psychological thriller with an underlying love story. Lucie (Kristin Scott Thomas) believes that her neurosurgeon husband of thirty years, Paul (Daniel Auteuil), is having an affair. When Paul starts receiving gifts and flowers Lucie begins to suspect Lou (Leila Bekhti), a young Moroccan waitress from their local cafe, is the other woman. As the conflict between husband and wife drives Paul further away from Lucie and closer to Lou, he gradually spends more and more time with a woman he knows little about. Is Lou really all she says she is?
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