MOVIES OF THE WEEK – March 19th

While this week wasn’t full of expectations on the big budget movies side, there are some interesting treats to discover in smaller cinemas like LAB111, screening tonight Leviathan with English subtitles, or Filmhuis Cavia which tonight and tomorrow is showing Crimson Gold (2003), by Jafar Panahi, the Iranian director whose movies are still banned by his government but awarded worldwide.

EYE and Rialto are also screening Timbuktu, by Abderrahmane Sissako: a terribly actual portrait of Jiadism, Oscar nominated this year and part of the Movies That Matters festival in Den Haag.

Moreover, last days to join the RozeFilmdagen, the LGBT film festival, screening at Het Ketelhuis until the 22nd.

So here are the movies of the week, in order of Imdb ratings (no wonder Nicolas Cage is at the bottom of the list…):

LEVIATHAN – IMDB: 7.8

Director: Andrey Zvyaginstev
Cast: Aleksey Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova, Roman Madyanov
Language: Russian with English Subtitles

CINDERELLA – IMDB: 7.8

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Cast: Lily James, Cate Blanchett, Richard Madden
Language: English

TIMBUKTU – IMDB: 7.3

Director: Abderrahmane Sissako
Cast: Ibrahim Ahmed, Abel Jafri, Toulou Kiki 
Language: French, Arabic

LA TRATTATIVA – IMDB: 7.2

Director: Sabina Guzzanti
Cast: Sabina Guzzanti, Antonino Bruschetta, Enzo Lombardo
Language: Italian with English Subtitles (on Friday at 20:00 – Lab111)

THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL – IMDB: 6.9

Director: John Madden
Cast: Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Dev Patel
Language: English

LE MERAVIGLIE – IMDB: 6.8

Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Cast: Alba Rohrwacher, Monica Bellucci, Maria Alexandra Lungu
Language: Italian

INSURGENT – IMDB: 6.8

Director: Robert Schwentke
Cast: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Theo James
Language: English

RETURN TO ITHACA – IMDB: 6.2

Director: Laurent Cantet
Cast: Isabel Santos, Jorge Perugorría, Fernando Hechevarria
Language: Spanish

DYING OF THE LIGHT  – IMDB: 4.2

Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Alexander Karim, Irene Jacob
Language: English

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