The four films Man Ray directed between 1923 and 1929, Le Retour à la raison, Emak-Bakia, L'Étoile de mer and Les Mystères du Château du Dé represent a high watermark of early European avant-garde cinema, a seminal nexus of experimental technique, surrealist narrative, and playful abstraction as suffused with dark eroticism.
Across three different time periods, Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) continually falls in love with
different incarnations of Louis (George MacKay). Visually audacious director Bertrand
Bonello (Saint Laurent, Nocturama) fashions his most accomplished film to date: a sci-fi
epic, inspired by Henry James' turn-of-the-century novella, The Beast in the Jungle, and
suffused with mounting dread and a haunting sense of mystery.
In the rural alpine hamlet of Mizubiki, not far from Tokyo, Takumi and his daughter, Hana, lead a modest life gathering water, wood, and wild wasabi for the local udon restaurant.
Horace Ové’s fiction-film debut marks a watershed in the history of British cinema: the nation’s first feature to be written and directed by a Black filmmaker and the first to focus on the perspective of Black characters.