Ĭombining style and subtlety, Mahershala Ali & Naomie Harris star in Barry Jenkins genre-defying, "La La Land" Oscar-winning 2016 film about a black gay man’s journey from a deprived childhood through rage and towards self-realisation. A ravishing tour de force, this superb flawless adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1952 novel "The Price of Salt" doesn’t put a foot wrong, with Cate Blanchett & Rooney Mara beautifully portraying a lesbian romance in 1950s New York. īBC iPLAYER / SKY CINEMA / AMAZON (£2.49) / BUY DISCĪ stunning masterpiece from 2015 and one of the most beautiful love stories ever told, front-loaded with atmospheric mood and poignant tendernessy.
īoth a gripping courtroom drama and a beautifully directed 1960's Notting Hill period piece, the first film in British director Steve McQueen's 2020 "Small Axe" series tells the true story of Frank Crichlow, a Trinidadian restaurateur who was racially harassed and bullied by the Metropolitan Police, and the resulting Mangrove Nine’s landmark Old Bailey trial. A beautifully drawn and wonderfully composed work of art which takes us on a rocket-fuelled flight of fancy, it's available in the Japanese original with subtitles, or, if you really want, dubbed with American voices.
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