Based on the true story of how gay activists ended up supporting striking Welsh coal miners in 1984, it will make you laugh a lot, and likely shed a tear too. The stacked cast includes Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton, Dominic West, and Andrew Scott.
Beautiful, universally relatable capturing of hopes, dreams, love found and love lost through the lives of nurses who have come from small towns to Mumbai, where privacy is a luxury and loneliness is found throughout.
In the hands of Wim Wenders and his star, Kōji Yakusho, this film about a man whose days are all seemingly the same as he goes about his job cleaning toilets in Tokyo becomes a beautiful, gently uplifting Zen meditation on fulfilment, meaning and simple joys.
At first this seems like a straightforward Nat Geo-style portrait of endearing census-taker Amber, asking people about their happiness in Bhutan, famed for its Gross National Happiness. But the filmmakers have tapped into something much deeper and more affecting.
