Giuseppe Tornatore directed this grand-scale portrait of life and love over several decades in the small town in Sicily where he was born. We see a number of important historical events through the eyes of young Peppino, watching the fortunes of his town and his family rise and fall. While open to accusations of nostalgia, superficiality and indulgence the film is something of a feast for the senses.
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Young provincial waiter Jan Dite may be short in height but his aspirations are lofty, he is determined to become a millionaire and he knows just how to do it. Continually watching and listening to his superiors and his high-flying, big-spending customers, Jan learns how to succeed by pleasing others. Based on the novel by Czech author Bohumit Hrabal, and directed by the Academy Award winning maker of ‘Closely Observed Trains', 'I Served The King' is a beguiling comedy about opportunism, identit find out more...

Roberto Benigni stars and directs this award littered Chaplinesque comic fable. In 1930s Italy, a carefree Jewish book keeper named Guido starts a fairy tale life by courting and marrying a lovely woman from a nearby city. Guido and his wife have a son and live happily together until the occupation of Italy by German forces. In an attempt to help his son survive the horrors of a Jewish Concentration Camp, Guido, an imaginative man, turns to humour, pretending that the Holocaust is a game and tha find out more...

Laura Henderson has just lost her husband, but while others might grieve she decides to refocus her considerable energies and on an apparent whim buys London's Windmill Theatre. A firm believer of demonstrative eccentricity, Mrs Henderson soon finds herself in trouble with the law when she decides to boost the theatre's faltering ticket sales by introducing nudity to the stage - a stroke of genius that is not without its pitfalls, particularly since her decision coincides with the arrival of WWI find out more...

A typically surreal and star studded tale from Wes Anderson about M. Gustave, a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel and his role as confidante and facilitater to the good, the bad, the great and the ugly; keenly assisted by his young protégé. A beautifully, quirkily visualised joy.

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