Here are movies from MUBI’s August program.
MUBI, which added The Worst Person in the World and Drive My Car, some of the most popular films of recent times, to its screening list in the past months, now brings the Cannes Film Festival award-winning Compartment No. 6 to the audience. This month’s selection includes Memoria, which won the Jury Prize again at Cannes, and special screening programs.
Compartment No. 6, Juho Kuosmanen (2021)
Juho Kuosmanen’s film, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes in 2021, tells the story of two strangers who meet on a train, without clichés, with all its authenticity. After a relationship ended, Finnish archaeologist Laura, who jumped on a train to the Arctic Circle, and Russian Ljoha, with whom they shared a second-class compartment, have nothing in common. As the train progresses, the light of day and the melancholy of the night fills in, and an unnamed affinity emerges between these two strangers, whose classes, languages, and lifestyles are similar.
Memoria, Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2021)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, known for his films that explore the mysterious realm between sleep and wakefulness, is one of the most important representatives of an understanding of cinema that flows in its own rhythm and does not hurry to understand the world around it. Thai master Weerasethakul’s film, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes in 2021, has a special place in Tilda Swinton’s extraordinary career. Swinton plays Jessica, who travels from Scotland to Bogota to see her sister, where she develops an obsession with an obscure voice. Jessica sets out on a quest for this rumbling sound that she thinks echoes from the depths of the world. Finally, he comes to the brink of a land of sounds that seem to belong to the collective memory of humanity.
Highlights
Bride of Peace: Pippa Bacca, Simone Manetti (2019)
“Bride of Peace: Pippa Bacca” is a documentary that tells the personality and world view of Pippa Bacca, whose journey to give hope to the world with her white wedding dress ended tragically in Turkey, through her friends.
