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.
Babysitter by Monia Chokri (2022)
Babysitter, the highly acclaimed Sundance comedy by Monia Chokri, whom we know from Xavier Dolan movies, tells the story of a family that questions their sexual life when a young babysitter enters their life.
One More Time With Feeling by Andrew Dominik (2016)
The documentary film “One More Time With Feeling” offers an opportunity to get to know one of the great poets of our time and to witness the creative process before the Nick Cave concert on August 21.
Mamaville, Irmak Karasu (2020)
“Mamaville”, which won the Best Short Film Award in the Golden Orange, tells the story of a young woman’s discovery of her own body and the relationship between a grandmother and her granddaughter in a summer cottage on the Aegean coast.
Special Screening Program
The End of the World: A Tayfun Pirselimoğlu Retrospective
The MUBI retrospective prepared for Tayfun Pirselimoğlu, who we know for his novels, stories and paintings as well as for his films, begins with 1999’s My Uncle. Hiçbiryerde (2002), a political story starring Zuhal Olcay, Rıza (2007), Pus (2009) and Saç (2010), which form the Conscience and Death trilogy, focus on characters on the peripheries of the city whose ties with life become fragile.
Unprecedented: Tilda Swinton
Focusing on Tilda Swinton, one of the greatest icons of contemporary cinema, the selection presents 12 of Swinton’s films. The selection includes films such as Luca Guadagnino’s You Are Mine, Cynthia Beatt’s documentary The Invisible Frame, and The Lawyer for which she won the Best Actress Oscar. The selection, which will run from August to October, includes films by many master directors, from Derek Jarman to Joanna Hogg.
