MUBI UK's March roster sees focusses on
Jean Vigo, Pier Paolo Pasolini and past Oscar winners and
nominations, along with the addition of
Titane
and more.
Titane
Exploding onto MUBI following its theatrical release,
Julia Ducournau’s Palme d’Or-winner Titane (2021) is
a conceptually audacious sophomore feature dripping with insouciant
attitude, igniting a Molotov cocktail of gender politics, familial
compassion, and female desire.
Agathe Rousselle stars as a dancer who, after being injured in a
car accident as a child, has a titanium plate fitted into her head. Amidst
a series of brutal and unexplained murders, her path irrevocably crosses
with Vincent, a firefighter desperately searching for his long-missing
son.
Shocking, visceral and subversive, Ducournau’s acclaimed follow-up to her
debut
Raw
(2016) is both a daring provocation and a transgressive reflection on
gender, wrapped in a high-octane body horror story that will shake you to
your core.
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
One of the leading lights in contemporary African cinema, director
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (A Screaming Man) makes a remarkable return to his home country with
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds (2021). Presented on International
Women’s Day, the honest and poignant official submission to the 2022
Academy Awards is a stunning vision of female solidarity.
On the outskirts of the capital of Chad, determined single mother Amina
(Achouackh Abakar Souleymane) works tirelessly to provide for
herself and her 15-year-old daughter Maria (Rihane Khalil Alio).
When Amina discovers Maria is pregnant and does not want a child, the two
women begin to seek out an abortion, condemned by both religion and law.
They navigate the patriarchal network of doctors, relatives, and
neighbours, and, in the process, mother and daughter forge a connection
stronger than any they have ever known.
On the occasion of his latest film Lingui, the Sacred Bonds, MUBI presents a career-spanning selection of some of the director’s
greatest works in the series Tales from the Fatherland: Films by
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun.
Focus on Jean Vigo
MUBI presents a full retrospective spotlighting the poetic and political
work of 1930s French filmmaker Jean Vigo. During his short life, he
was only able to complete four films –
À Propos de Nice (1930), a silent cinematic poem revealing
through montage the economic reality hidden behind the facade of the
Mediterranean town; Taris (1931), the innovative, short
documentary profiling French swimming champion Jean Taris;
Zero for Conduct (1933) the story of prankish-boarding school
students celebrating the spirit of revolution; and
L’Atalante (1934), the whirlwind romance and Vigo’s only full
length feature – but the experimental, surrealist works live on capturing
his inventive, rebellious spirit.
And the Oscar Goes To…
In the lead up to this year’s Academy Awards, MUBI's annual presentation
And the Oscar Goes To… returns with a selection of winners and nominees from
Oscars past. Get a taste of the best from the Academy with festival
favourite
The Square
(2017), multi-award winning Howard's End (1992), heartbreaking
Amour (2012) and cult classic
Ghost World (2001).
The Passions of Pasolini
To honour one of Italy’s greatest filmmakers for his 100th birthday, MUBI
is celebrating the cinema of the complex, passionate iconoclast, director
Pier Paolo Pasolini. Merging the poetic and political, his cinema
stands in response to the transformation of Italian post-war society as he
never shied away from controversy, questioning Italians’ attitudes towards
religion, consumerism and homosexuality.
Love Infinity
On a journey through magical, historical London, multidisciplinary artist
Tim Yip gives singular insight into the worlds of those who, from the
fringes, over decades came to transform the city.
Love Infinity (2021) brings together an inspiring cast with
unparalleled access to some of the most iconic and diverse living artists
and creatives of our time including, amongst others:
Vivienne Westwood, Gilbert & George, Philip Colbert, Daniel Lismore,
Stephen Jones, Pandemonia, Stik, Sue Webster
and Jonny Woo. Yip gives clarity and texture to what is in plain
sight, presenting a vision of the city as never seen before.
Zero Fucks Given
Starring the ever-great Adèle Exarchopoulos together with a
non-professional cast of actual flight attendants, directors
Emmanuel Marre and Julie Lecoustre craft a vulnerable,
sensitive study on grief, and on the realities of an “instagram-worthy”
lifestyle in their film Zero Fucks Given (2021), the tale of
26-year-old airline hostess Cassandre who lives one day at a time and
parties without a care for tomorrow.
Train Again
18 years after L’Arrivée (1999), Peter Tscherkassky’s
Train Again (2021) pays homage to Kurt Kren once again tapping
into a classic motif in film history – a collision ride through the history
and love story between trains and cinema. With his signature avant-garde
found footage darkroom aesthetics, the experimental score by Tscherkassky’s
longtime collaborator Dirk Schaefer accentuates the immersive viewing
experience.
Feast
In Tim Leyendekker’s bold and provocative debut
Feast (2021), perpetrators, victims and their onlookers get
entangled in a dramatic reconstruction of the Groningen HIV case – the story
of three men who injected other men with their own HIV-infected blood during
sex parties. Unfolding as a series of seven vignettes, the film explores
questions of desire, consent, truth and morality, from different angles as
the story constantly shifts, mutates and evolves.
Love After Love
Veteran Hong Kong New Wave filmmaker and recent winner of the Venice Golden
Lion For Lifetime Achievement Award, Ann Hui creates a
visually-stunning, sprawling melodrama on sexual freedom, transgression and
fractured identities in pre-World War II Hong Kong in her latest work
Love After Love (2020). The story follows a young girl
travelling to Hong Kong from Shanghai in pursuit of education, but ends up
working for her aunt seducing rich and powerful men. The film marks her
first collaboration with star cinematographer Christopher Doyle and
composer Ryuichi Sakamoto.
I've Heard the Mermaids Singing
Regarded as an important milestone in queer cinema and a classic of the
Toronto New Wave, Patricia Rozema’s charming, whimsical story
I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (1987) receives a fresh 4K
restoration. The film follows Polly, a waifish secretary who gets caught up
in voyeuristic fascinations about her new boss and slips into worlds where
she can fly, walk on water and hear mermaids singing.