SBS World Movies Highlights: 1 – 7 March

• Audio Description (AD) available for The One I Love, Spy Game, Gosford Park, Brideshead Revisited, Brooklyn, Ammonite, An Ideal Husband and On Chesil Beach
  
• Closed Captions (CC) available for Brideshead Revisited, Brooklyn, On Chesil Beach, Sophie’s Choice and Under the Skin
  

 

WEDNESDAY 1 MARCH

The One I Love
7:50pm

M, AD
USA, 2014
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Language: English
Director: Charlie McDowell
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Mark Duplass, Ted Danson
What’s it about?
On the brink of separation, Ethan (Duplass) and Sophie (Moss) escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway to save their marriage. What begins as a romantic and fun retreat soon becomes surreal when an unexpected discovery forces the two to examine themselves, their relationship, and their future.

Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
9:30pm

M
Spain, 2013
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Language: Spanish
Director: David Trueba
Starring: Javier Cámara, Natalia de Molina, Francesc Colomer, Ramon Fontserè
What’s it about?
Spain, 1966. An English teacher (Cámara) who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there befriends a 16-year-old boy (Colomer) who has run away from home and a young girl (de Molina) who is also running away from something.

 

THURSDAY 2 MARCH

Spy Game
7:30pm

M, AD
USA, UK, 2001
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Language: English
Director: Tony Scott
Starring: Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Marianne Jean-Baptiste
What’s it about?
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent (Redford) learns that his former protégé (Pitt) has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal. Directed by Tony Scott (Top Gun, Crimson Tide).

May God Save Us
9:50pm

MA15+
Spain, 2016
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Action
Language: Spanish
Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Starring: Antonio de la Torre, Roberto Álamo, Javier Pereira, Luis Zahera, Raúl Prieto
What’s it about?
Madrid, summer 2011. 1.5 million pilgrims are waiting for the Pope’s arrival while a serial killer appears to be on the loose. Detectives Velarde (de la Torre) and Alfaro (Álamo) conduct an against-the-clock manhunt that will make them realise something they’d never imagined: neither of them are so very different from the killer.

 

FRIDAY 3 MARCH

Gosford Park
7:30pm

M, AD
USA, 2001
Genre: Mystery, Drama, Crime, Comedy
Language: English
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Kristin Scott Thomas, Michael Gambon, Maggie Smith, Bob Balaban, Ryan Phillippe
What’s it about?
Set in the 1930s, this Robert Altman-directed film – an Academy Award winner for Best Original Screenplay – takes place in an English country house where a weekend shooting party is underway. The story centres on the McCordle family, particularly the man of the house, Sir William McCordle (Gambon). Getting on in years, William has become a benefactor to many of his relatives and friends. As the weekend goes on, secrets are revealed, and it seems that everyone, above stairs and below, wants a piece of William and his money.

The Good Boss
10:00pm

M
Spain, 2021
Genre: Comedy
Language: Spanish
Director: Fernando Leon de Aranoa
Starring: Javier Bardem, Manolo Solo, Almudena Amor, Óscar de la Fuente, Sonia Almarcha
What’s it about?
Julio Blanco (Bardem) is the proprietor of Básculas Blanco, a Spanish company producing industrial scales in a provincial Spanish town, which awaits the imminent visit from a committee that will decide if they merit a local Business Excellence award: everything has to be perfect when the time comes. Working against the clock, Blanco pulls out all the stops to address and resolve issues with his employees, crossing every imaginable line in the process.

7:20 Once a Week
12:15am

MA15+
Dominican Republic, 2018
Genre: Romance, Drama
Language: Spanish
Director: Matias Bize
Starring: Eva Arias, Josue Guerrero
What’s it about?
Manuel (Guerroro) and Julia (Arias) meet by chance one evening and spend an intense night together. Both of them are married, but they decide to meet once a week. The relationship leads them to wonder about the possibility of a different choice – the realisation that maybe they deserve something more.

 

SATURDAY 4 MARCH

It’s All About Karma
4:25pm

PG
Italy, 2017
Genre: Comedy
Language: Italian
Director: Edoardo Falcone
Starring: Fabio De Luigi, Elio Germano, Massimo De Lorenzo, Daniela Virgilio
What’s it about?
Giacomo (De Luigi), an extravagant rich heir deeply believes in reincarnation. 40 years after the loss of his father, he believes he has seen him again when he meets Mario Pitagora (Germano), a greedy and unspiritual man. Soon the absurd encounter will change their lives forever.

Brideshead Revisited
6:05pm

PG, AD, CC
UK, 2008
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Julian Jarrold
Starring: Matthew Goode, Ben Whishaw, Emma Thompson, Anna Madeley, Michael Gambon
What’s it about?
In 1925 at Oxford University, Charles Ryder (Goode) is befriended by the flamboyant Sebastian Flyte (Whishaw), son of Lord and Lady Marchmain (Gambon and Thompson). Sebastian takes Charles under his wing and when he’s invited to Brideshead, the Flyte family’s magnificent ancestral home, Charles becomes infatuated with Julia, Sebastian’s beautiful sister Julia (Atwell) as well as everything the family represents.

Brooklyn
8:30pm

M, AD, CC
Ireland, Canada, 2015
Genre: Drama, Romance
Language: English
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Emily Bett Rickards
What’s it about?
An Irish immigrant (Ronan) lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local (Cohen). When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within. Nominated for three Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Actress (Ronan) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Nick Hornby, from the novel by Colm Tóibín.)

 

SUNDAY 5 MARCH

An Ideal Husband
6:40pm

PG, AD
UK, USA, 1999
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Language: English
Director: Oliver Parker
Starring: Cate Blanchett, Minnie Driver, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam
What’s it about?
Sir Robert Chiltern (Northam) is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

On Chesil Beach
8:30pm

M, AD, CC
UK, 2018
Genre: Drama, Romance
Language: English
Director: Dominic Cooke
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Billy Howle, Anne-Marie Duff, Adrian Scarborough, Emily Watson
What’s it about?
It is summer 1962, and England is still a year away from huge social changes – Beatlemania, the sexual revolution and the Swinging Sixties. We first encounter Florence (Ronan) and Edward (Howle), a young couple in their early twenties, on their wedding day. Now on their honeymoon, they are dining in their room at a stuffy, sedate hotel near Chesil Beach in Dorset, where one of them makes a major decision that will utterly change both of their lives forever. Based on the novella by Ian McEwan.

Violet & Daisy
10:30pm

MA15+
USA, 2011
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action, Comedy
Language: English
Director: Geoffrey Fletcher
Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, James Gandolfini, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Danny Trejo
What’s it about?
Two teenage assassins (Ronan, Bledel) accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, only to be caught up by the eccentricities of their target. Before they know it, the mysterious loner leads them on an odyssey of self-examination.

 

MONDAY 6 MARCH

Coco Avant Chanel
6:25pm

PG
France, Belgium, 2009
Genre: Drama, History
Language: French, English
Director: Anne Fontaine
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Alessandro Nivola, Emmanuelle Devos, Marie Gillain, Benoit Poelvoorde
What’s it about?
Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Chanel (Tautou) finds herself working in a provincial bar both. She’s both a seamstress for the performers and a singer, earning the nickname Coco from the song she sings nightly with her sister. A liaison with Baron Balsan (Poelvoorde) grants her entry into French society and a chance to develop her gift for designing.

We Need to Talk About Kevin
11:15pm

MA15+
UK, 2011
Genre: Drama
Language: English
Director: Lynne Ramsay
Starring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly, Ezra Miller, Ashley Gerasimovich
What’s it about?
Eva (Swinton) gives up her beloved freedom and bohemian lifestyle to have a child with her husband, Franklin (Reilly). Pregnancy does not seem to agree with Eva, but what’s worse, when she does give birth to a baby boy named Kevin (later played by Miller), she can’t seem to bond with him. When Kevin grows from a fussy, demanding toddler into a sociopathic teen, Eva is forced to deal with the aftermath of her son’s horrific act. Based on the bestselling novel by Lionel Shriver and directed by Lynne Ramsay (You Were Never Really Here, Morvern Callar).

 

TUESDAY 7 MARCH

A Hard Day’s Night
6:50pm

G
UK, 1964
Genre: Music, Comedy
Language: German, English, French
Director: Richard Lester
Starring: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Wilfrid Brambell
What’s it about?
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, this cult classic is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul’s troublemaking grandfather and Ringo’s arrest.

Annie Hall
8:30pm

PG
USA, 1977
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Language: English, German
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Carol Kane, Shelley Duvall
What’s it about?
This landmark romantic comedy (and Best Picture Oscar winner) stars Woody Allen as a neurotic, New York comedian who falls for a quirky midwestern girl (Keaton) in an on-again, off-again romance.