The Beast

1910, Paris.  Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux) and her husband, Georges (Martin Scali), run the premier doll factory in town.  She reunites by chance with Louis (George MacKay), an old friend, and confesses to him her fear of suffering a great tragedy.  Los Angeles, 2014.  Gabrielle is housesitting for an architect in his luxury home.  After an…

A Prince

Pierre-Joseph (Antoine Pirotte, voiced by Grégory Gadebois), a horticulture apprentice. Alberto (Vincent Barré, voiced by Mathieu Amalric), the master gardener. Adrien (Pierre Barray), the land owner.  Françoise (Manon Schaap, voiced by Françoise Lebrun), his wife.  Moïse (Bruno Martin), their first son, a hunter.  Kutta (Chiman Dangi), their second son, an Indian prince.  Together, they make…

Exhuma

Hwa-rim (Kim Go-eun) and her apprentice, Bong-gil (Lee Do-hyun), two skilled Korean shamans, are called to investigate a strange disease plaguing the newborn son of a wealthy Korean-American family.  They trace the cause back to a vengeful ancestor who did not receive a burial appropriate to their class, so Park Ji-Yong  (Kim Jae-cheol), the patriarch…

Evil Does Not Exist

Takumi (Hitoshi Omika) lives in peace with his young daughter, Hana (Ryo Nishikawa), in the rural village of Mizubiki, not far from Tokyo.  News breaks that a company wants to convert some of the forests that the town relies on into a glamping resort so that the city folk can experience a taste of the…

Housekeeping for Beginners

A nuclear family has combusted and are now living in the fallout, carefully navigating around each other.  Matriarch Dita (Anamaria Marinca) is left to raise Vanesa (Mia Mustafi) and Mia (Dzada Selim), the two children of her girlfriend, Suada (Alina Serban), who was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer.  Meanwhile, her husband, Toni (Vladimir Tintor), has…

La Chimera

Arthur (Josh O’Connor) returns to Lazio, Italy after spending some time in jail for selling Etruscan artifacts on the black market.  He reunites with Flora (Isabella Rossellini), the mother of his deceased girlfriend, Beniamina (Yile Yara Vianello), and is introduced to Italia (Carol Duarte), a young woman and aspirational singer who works for Flora in…

The Settlers

Chile, 1893.  Under the employ of José Menéndez (Alfredo Castro), Alexander MacLennan (Mark Stanley), Bill (Benjamin Westfall), and Segundo (Camilo Arancibia) travel through the wilderness to mark out the wealthy businessman’s land.  Their job takes them deep into the country where the Onas people live, and acting on their orders, MacLennan and Bill do not…

Io Capitano

Seydou (Seydou Sarr) and his cousin, Moussa (Moustapha Fall) make the decision, against their parents’ will, to journey from their home in Dakar to Italy where they will find better work and opportunities to send money back home to support their families.  With fake passports and a handful of ever-dwindling cash, the boys make their…

The Taste of Things

Eugénie (Juliette Binoche) is a cook who is under the employ of Dodin Bouffant (Benoît Magimel), a gourmand with a lovely estate in the French countryside.  Through their many years together, Dodin has fallen in love with Eugénie, though she continually rejects his proposals of marriage but will sometimes entertain his nightly advances.  One summer,…