Zetterstrøm is a solitary lad whose consoling love of music leads to a somewhat perfectionist determination to make it as a concert pianist. This he succeeds in, but so accustomed is the adult Zetterstrøm to feeling lonely that he's barely able to accept the affection bestowed on him by the beautiful Andrea. A decade later and, with Andrea apparently forgotten, Zetterstrom is drawn back to his past and a mysterious place known only as ‘The Zone'. Christoffer Boe's ‘Reconstruction' was a visually find out more...

The boys behind Daft Punk move into experimental art house cinema with this their directorial debut about two robots (oh yes) on a quest to become human. An intriguing, though perhaps not entirely successful, labour of love that, though with a frustratingly small amount of their own fine music, boasts an excellent soundtrack from Mayfield, Eno, Haydn and Chopin. A cinematographically beautiful midnight movie. find out more...

One of the most stylish and beautiful films ever made and a cult classic that helped to repopularise French cinema over here. A courier obsessed with a beautiful black opera singer enters an underworld of visual splendour and tortuous emotions where love and desire go a long way to realising dreams. Brilliant! find out more...

Brad Pitt is as superficially smooth as the suede of his name, obsessed by the shoes that fall to his feet at the start of the film and a sultry hedonistic girl. But in reality the man behind this cool, hip image must mature and decide what he wants out of life. find out more...

Small time gangster's moll Blondie kidnaps a big-wig local politico's junkie wife in order to secure her husband's release from the local mafiosi. Altman's homage to his hometown is a swirl of bourbon soaked atmospherics on the themes of love, crime, race and politics, grafted onto a fine jazz soundtrack. find out more...

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Life is crazy. You're crazy, I'm crazy, we're all crazy. We're all a little bit Minnie, and a little bit Moskowitz. Sometimes it does seem best to be sensible...but then what might you be missing out on? You gotta be you. You don't have to park cars and semi-randomly yell at people, but you can't hide yourself behind a veil (or dark sunglasses) and pretend and act like ever find out more...

The Brixton Academy, 'Black Rebel Motorcycle' banging out from the front of the stage, Lisa and Matt’s first meeting….and what a meeting. Consumed by a mutual lust that most of us only experience in our “really good dreams”, Lisa and Matt go at it like rabbits hooked up to an intravenous Viagra drip, but as little else in their relationship develops so the inevitability of its conclusion looms. Directed by Michael Winterbottom, Nine Songs is a difficult film to qualify, its explicit nature is wi find out more...

Carmen is a terrorist who falls in love with a young cop guarding a bank that she and her gang try to rob. She leads him on, the pair of them legging it to her film-maker uncle's beach pad, while dragging the two of them closer to their ultimate doom. Carmen runs around naked a lot, string quartets play Beethoven, uncle (Godard himself) can't get his film act together and the romance fizzles out. As for you Bizet fans out there, make of it what you will, but 'Carmen' is in there, albeit in a con find out more...

Malick is back with a waltz of a movie that wants to sweep you off your feet and drag you around from broody relationship to broody motif. Whimsy is dialed up to eleven in this intersecting love triangle tangle. If you're a die hard Malick fan you might still enjoy it but, if he's been slowly (or rapidly) losing you in recent years, then this will just have you scoffing into a motif of billowing curtains or an agency-less girlfriend with expensive if scanty clothes a find out more...