Tao Okamoto and Virginie Efira stroll through Paris, philosophising about a better world in this delightfully long film by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (_Drive My Car_).

Marie-Lou, director of a Paris care home, tries to break with convention through an innovative care method. She meets fierce resistance from her team, who consider putting the residents' wishes and dignity entirely front and centre unworkable.

Marie-Lou's life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Mari, a Japanese theatre director fighting cancer. As a close friendship develops between the two women, they join forces in a struggle to make the impossible possible.

Sitting still for 196 minutes sounds long, but think of _All of a Sudden_ as one of those delightful mental health walks, right inside the cinema. Director Ryusuke Hamaguchi (_Drive My Car_) takes his sweet time, and before you know it, so do you. In a world where everyone is running, rushing, and pushing on, his latest film is an (unbelievably) patient, welcome breath of fresh air. Hamaguchi loosely based the story on the correspondence between two academic pen pals who wrote to each other about philosophy, anthropology, capitalism, and approaching death. He cast Virginie Efira as Marie-Lou, a French care director trying to introduce the patience-based Humanitude method in her care home, and Tao Okamoto became Mari, a terminally ill theatre maker from Japan. Marie-Lou and Mari meet by chance in Paris and, though seemingly worlds apart, feel like kindred spirits from day one. And then off they walk. During their long strolls they talk about life – and how _all of a sudden_ it can just be over. The richer their conversations, the grander the small things around them feel, slowing you down as a viewer too. _All of a Sudden_ is the kind of film that quietly helps you catch your breath again. Every rushed, breathless gasp turns into a liberating deep sigh: Haaaaaaah… maguchi.

Think of this film as a long mental health walk: afterwards, the world all of a sudden feels a bit lighter.

Tao Okamoto and Virginie Efira stroll through Paris, philosophising about a better world in this delightfully long film by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (_Drive My Car_).

All of a Sudden

A new adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.

The story revolves around the two eldest sisters of the Dashwood family, and their experiences with love, grief and societal expectations. Following Georgia Oakley's disarming debut _Blue Jean_ (2022), our expectations are sky-high.

A new adaptation of Jane Austen's beloved novel, starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and Esmé Creed-Miles as sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.

Sense and Sensibility

In a British medieval village lives the 'Fisherwoman' (Olivia Colman): eternally single, a little scruffy and always the butt of the joke. When she's had enough of her narrow-minded neighbours one day, she asks the local basket weaver to weave her the perfect man out of wicker. And who better than Alexander Skarsgård to fulfill that role?

A sexy wicker man with the features of Alexander Skarsgård and a 4-week delivery time? Too bad this is just a fairytale and not a documentary.

He's broad-shouldered, strong as an ox, and faithful as a dog; he fixes your roof when it leaks and your bed when you've just wrecked it together; he has the contours and voice of Alexander Skarsgård; he keeps saying things like: 'That I can see the sun and the sea is all thanks to you.' The _Wicker Husband_ is, in short, the perfect husband. That this dream of a man is made of wicker, and therefore looks a bit like a monstrous, walking basket, hardly seems to bother anyone. Rarely have we seen so many happy faces on our feed as after the trailer for _Wicker_ dropped. 'The girls are choosing the basket over the men', as someone put it in one of the thousands of reaction videos. The women in the medieval village of _Wicker_ are all jealous of the Fisherwoman (Olivia Colman), who had a travelling master basket weaver make the _Wicker Husband_ and is now the only one no longer stuck with love-free, orgasm-free evenings. Compared to the new straw arrival, the village's boorish men turn out even more boorish than expected, because they don't dance, they don't say sweet things, and they certainly don't contribute anything to the household. Such a shame that _Wicker_ is just a fairytale and not a documentary. We want to move in with a sexy, soulful object too. Or was there another moral to this story? We didn't quite catch it, busy thinking about a broken bed and a leaking roof that still need fixing.

Alexander Skarsgård is the man and basket of your dreams.

Wicker

In 2006, TV host Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) is about to make television history with his show _To Catch a Predator_. Chasing peak ratings, Hansen and his team set a trap for adult men who think they're meeting up with minors.

It's 2006, and _To Catch a Predator_ host Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) wants to make television history.

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