Monthly pick of foreign language films - January 2019
Here are our monthly pick of the foreign language films being released in Britain and Ireland during January 2019.
Friday 4th January 2019
An Impossible Love (Un amour impossible) (15) French
At the end of 50 years in Chateauroux, Rachel, a modest office worker, meets Philippe, a brilliant young man born to a bourgeois family. From this brief but passionate connection is born a small daughter, Chantal. Philippe refuses to marry outside of his social class and Rachel has to raise their daughter alone. Regardless, for it Chantal is her great happiness, it is why she fights for that to default of the raise, Philippe gives her his name. A battle of more than ten years which will eventually break his life and the lives of his daughter.
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At the end of 50 years in Chateauroux, Rachel, a modest office worker, meets Philippe, a brilliant young man born to a bourgeois family. From this brief but passionate connection is born a small daughter, Chantal. Philippe refuses to marry outside of his social class and Rachel has to raise their daughter alone. Regardless, for it Chantal is her great happiness, it is why she fights for that to default of the raise, Philippe gives her his name. A battle of more than ten years which will eventually break his life and the lives of his daughter.
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The 12th Man (Den 12. mann) (15) Saami
Norway, 1943: after a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud finds himself on the run from the Gestapo through the snowbound Arctic reaches of Scandinavia led by Captain Kurt Stage. It's a harrowing journey across unforgiving, frozen wilderness that will stretch on for months - and force Jan to take extreme action in order to survive.
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Norway, 1943: after a failed anti-Nazi sabotage mission leaves his eleven comrades dead, Norwegian resistance fighter Jan Baalsrud finds himself on the run from the Gestapo through the snowbound Arctic reaches of Scandinavia led by Captain Kurt Stage. It's a harrowing journey across unforgiving, frozen wilderness that will stretch on for months - and force Jan to take extreme action in order to survive.
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Zabawa, zabawa (15) Polish
Polish drama in which three women struggle with alcoholism.
Polish drama in which three women struggle with alcoholism.
Friday 11th January 2019
Nina (Unclassified) Polish
Nina, a teacher in mid-30's, struggling to have a child, looks for a surrogate mother. It would seem that together with her husband she has found an ideal candidate, yet Nina falls for the woman, who could have given birth to her child.
Nina, a teacher in mid-30's, struggling to have a child, looks for a surrogate mother. It would seem that together with her husband she has found an ideal candidate, yet Nina falls for the woman, who could have given birth to her child.
The Accidental Prime Minister Hindi
Life,Work and Controversies related to India's 13th Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.
Life,Work and Controversies related to India's 13th Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh.
Uri: The Surgical Strike Hindi
Based on the true events of 2016, when Indian Army avenged a deadly terrorist attack by carrying out a surgical strike.
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Based on the true events of 2016, when Indian Army avenged a deadly terrorist attack by carrying out a surgical strike.
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Monday 14th January 2019
One Cut of the Dead (Kamera o tomeru na!) (15) Japanese
Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.
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Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.
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Friday 25th January 2019
Bergman - A Year in a Life (15) Swedish
Jane Magnusson directs and narrates a documentary that exposes the darker, less well-known side to one of the most famous directors in world cinema. Focusing on 1957, a landmark year in which Bergman directed two films and four plays, Magnusson explores not only the director's filmography but also his at times complex and turbulent personal life.
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Jane Magnusson directs and narrates a documentary that exposes the darker, less well-known side to one of the most famous directors in world cinema. Focusing on 1957, a landmark year in which Bergman directed two films and four plays, Magnusson explores not only the director's filmography but also his at times complex and turbulent personal life.
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Love Sonia (18) Hindi
Inspired by real life events, Love Sonia is the story of a young girl's journey to rescue her sister from the dangerous world of international sex trafficking.
Inspired by real life events, Love Sonia is the story of a young girl's journey to rescue her sister from the dangerous world of international sex trafficking.