BABYGIRL
Rating: MA15+ (Strong themes and sex scenes)
Duration: 114 mins
Director: Halina Reijn
Cast: Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, Jean Reno, Sophie Wilde, Anoop Desai
Genre: Crime, mystery, thriller
Opens: Jan 30th
Nicole Kidman is back on the big screen in fine form, in a powerful role only someone with her self assuredness could pull off. Romy is a successful CEO in a large corporation in New York. She is happily married to Jacob and they have two children. But Romy has unfulfilled sexual fantasies, which she soon begins to explore with a young intern who has no respect for her position of power and turns her life upside down.
‘Nicole Kidman Is Fearless’ – Variety
‘Babygirl Might Just Be The Year’s Hottest Movie’ – Vulture
BRIDGET JONES: MAD ABOUT THE BOY
Rating: CTC
Director: Michael Morris
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Leo Woodall
Genre: Comedy, romance
Opens: Feb 13
Finally, some fun loving Bridget is back – alas, Bridget is alone once again, widowed four years ago, when Mark was killed on a humanitarian mission in Sudan. She’s now a single mother to nine-year-old Billy and four-year-old Mabel, and is stuck in a state of emotional limbo, raising her children with help from her loyal friends and even her former lover, Daniel Cleaver.
Pressured by her ‘urban family’ – Shazzer, Jude and Tom, her work colleague Miranda, her mother, and her gynecologist Dr. Rawlings – to forge a new path toward life and love, Bridget goes back to work and even tries out the dating apps, where she’s soon pursued by a dreamy and enthusiastic younger man. Now juggling work, home and romance, Bridget grapples with the judgment of the perfect mums at school, worries about Billy as he struggles with the absence of his father, and engages in a series of awkward interactions with her son’s rational-to-a-fault science teacher.
QUEER
Rating: MA 15+ (Strong drug use and sex scenes)
Duration: 137 mins
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman
Genre: Biography, drama, history
Opens: Feb 07
Daniel Craig played some great roles in his pre Bond days, and it seems if you are going to throw off those shackles, he’s gunna fling them far and go as far the other way possible.
Luca Guadagnino (Call Me by Your Name, Challengers) and screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes (Challengers) reunite for QUEER, an adaptation of William Burroughs’ complex novella of a lonely man’s search for connection.
1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.
THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG
Rating: M (Mature themes, injury detail and violence)
Duration: 168 mins
Cast: Soheila Golestani, Reza Akhlaghirad, Misagh Zare
Genre: Drama
Language: Persian with English subtitles
Opens: Feb 27
Family bonds unravel and generations clash in this extraordinary drama from acclaimed filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof. Shot in secret and resulting in the persecution of its director, who was eventually forced to flee Iran, The Seed of the Sacred Fig combines gripping storytelling with real-life footage of recent protests in Iran, capturing a family’s turmoil amid a society in upheaval.
In Tehran, Iman and his family celebrate his recent promotion to an investigating judge. As public protests erupt against compulsory hijabs, the dynamics within his family begin to shift. When his service weapon goes missing, Iman becomes increasingly paranoid, even suspecting his own wife Najmeh, and daughters Sana and Rezvan.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig has won the FIPRESCI Prize and Jury Special Prize at Cannes Film Festival 2024, and the GIO Audience Award at Sydney Film Festival 2024. It is the German entry for the Academy Awards 2025 for Best International Feature Film.
