“Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That’s the thing about painting, photography, cinema”, David Lynch said once.
It’s the week of the Cannes Film Festival and we couldn’t help but dedicate our TAKE 10 to cinema.
It’s the independent cinema (more or less recent) we chose, to be precise.
These are often self-produced films that tell of passion and vision.
Art is stimulus. Art is growth. Art is the future.
10 – The Luckiest Man in America (US, 2025)
Duration: 90mins
Genre: Biopic/Drama
Where: All The Cinemas
When: Now
Duration: 90mins
Genre: Biopic/Drama
Where: All The Cinemas
When: Now
Director: Samir Oliveros
Writers: Samir Oliveros, Maggie Briggs
Producer: Amanda Freedman
Starring: Paul Walter Hauser, Walton Goggins, Shamier Anderson, David Strathairn, Maisie Williams
Synopsis: Go behind the scenes of the most infamous episode in game show history, as an ice cream truck driver harboring a powerful secret charms his way onto Press Your Luck.
9 – The Ugly Stepsister (Norway, 2025)
Duration: 109 Mins
Genre: Body Horror
Where: All The Cinemas
When: Now
Director: Emilie Blichfeldt
Writer: Emilie Blichfeldt
Producer: Maria Ekerhovd
Starring: Lea Myren, Thea Sofie Loch Nass, Ane Dahl Torp
Synopsis: A sinister twist on the classic Cinderella story, The Ugly Stepsister follows Elvira as she prepares to earn the prince’s affection at any cost. In a kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira will compete with the beautiful and enchanting Agnes to become the belle of the ball.
8 – After Yang (US, 2021)
Duration: 96 Mins
Genre: Science Fiction
Where: Prime Video
When: Now
Director: Kogonada
Writers: Alexander Weinstein, Kogonada
Producers: Theresa Park, Andrew Goldman, Caroline Kaplan, Paul Mezey
Starring: Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja
Synopsis: In the near future, a family grapples with questions of love, connection and loss after their AI assistant unexpectedly breaks down.
7 – Breathless (Korea, 2008)
Duration: 130 Mins
Genre: Drama
Where: Netflix
When: Now
Director: Ik-june Yang
Writer: Ik-june Yang
Producer: Jang Seong-jin
Starring: Ik-june Yang, Kim Kkot-bi, Hwan Lee
Synopsis: Ruthless leader of a gang of thugs, Sang-hoon puts all his rage into his job as a debt collector. His life and daily life are a story of violence, so much so that he seems incapable of expressing his attachment. But chance puts Yeon-hee on his path, a young high school student, with a past strangely similar to his own and who will stand up to him. Little by little, these two lost people will tame each other and escape together from a world made of inhumanity. But can Sang-hoon forgive? And above all, can he be forgiven?
6 – Dangerous Animals (Australia, 2025)
Duration: 97 Mins
Genre: Thriller
Where: All The Cinemas
When: Now
Director: Sean Byrne
Writer: Nick Lepard
Producers: Troy Lum, Andrew Mason, Pete Shilaimon, Mickey Liddell
Starring: Jai Courtney, Hassie Harrison, Josh Heuston, Rob Carlton, Ella Newton, Liam Greinke
Synopsis: When Zephyr, a rebellious surfer, is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer and held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.
5 – L’Infinito (Italia, 2024)
Duration: 91 Mins
Genre: Drama
Where: All The Cinemas
When: Now
Director: Umberto Contarello
Writers: Umberto Contarello, Paolo Sorrentino
Producers: Lorenzo Mieli, Paolo Sorrentino, Bardo Tarantelli, Lorenzo Fiuzzi i
Starring: Umberto Contarello, Carolina Sala, Margherita Rebeggiani, Eric Claire, Manuela Mandracchia, Lea Gramsdorff
Synopsis: A man clinging to the successes of the past finds himself dealing with a nostalgic and lonely present. A sweet and melancholy story, but which leaves light to hope.
4 – Hot Milk (UK, 2025)
Duration: 93 Mins
Genre: Drame
Where: All The Cinemas
When: Now
Director: Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Writer: Rebecca Lenkiewicz
Producers: Christine Langan, Kate Glover, Giorgos Karnavas
Starring: Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw, Vicky Krieps, Vincent Perez, Patsy Ferran, Yann Gael, Vangelis Mourikis
Synopsis: Sofia travels to the Spanish coast with her domineering mother, who seeks a cure for a strange illness. A tantalizing world awaits Sofia, if she can escape her mother’s demands.
3 – NY84 (France/US, 2016)
Duration: 80 Mins
Genre: Drama/Musical
Where: Prime Video
When: Now
Director: Cyril Morin
Writer: Cyril Morin
Producers: Christine Langan, Kate Glover, Giorgos Karnavas
Starring: Sam Quartin, Chris Schellenger, Davy J. Marr
Synopsis: The adventures of three young artists from downtown New York in the early 80s. Kate, Anton and Keith are young and carefree. The “party” ends in 1984 when Anton and Keith contract a mysterious illness.
2 – Love Exposure (Japan, 2008)
Duration: 237 Mins
Genre: Comedy-Drama
Where: Prime Video
When: Now
Director: Sion Sono
Writer: Sion Sono
Producer: Haruo Umekawa
Starring: Takahiro Nishijima, Hikari Mitsushima, Sakura Ando
Synopsis: Son of a respected priest, Yu joins an institution which provides a particular teaching: voyeurism and perversion.
1 – Mirror (Soviet Union, 1974)
Duration: 106 Mins
Genre: Avant-garde Drame
Where: PLEX
When: Now
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Writers: Aleksandr Misharin, Andrei Tarkovsky
Producer: Erik Waisberg
Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev
Synopsis: A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky (STALKER) is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work of cinema. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, MIRROR has since taken its place as one of the director’s most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen.