Choose of the week
The Handmaiden
Sarah Waters’s acclaimed crime novel Fingersmith is the supply for this elegant, erotic psychological thriller from Oldboy director Park Chan-wook. Set in a Korea beneath Japanese occupation within the early twentieth century, the tangled story follows a plot by conman Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo) to marry heiress Hideko (Kim Min-hee) after which get her dedicated to an asylum, pocketing her cash. He installs sidekick Sook-Hee (Kim Tae-ri) as her maid to help him, however the younger lady and her sufferer fall in love. Sook-Hee narrates her half within the scheme, however that’s solely the half of it, as Hideko then tells her personal, very totally different story – one in every of little one abuse, sadism and pornographic literature.
Tuesday 24 Could, 1.05am, Film4
Loopy Wealthy Asians
Jon M Chu’s unashamedly opulent romantic comedy-drama ticks all of the packing containers for mainstream success, however it's most notable for its all-Asian solid, nonetheless a rarity in Hollywood. Constance Wu performs Chinese language-American New Yorker Rachel, who discovers that her boyfriend Nick (Henry Golding) is a part of a stupendously rich Singapore-Chinese language household. Flying over for a marriage, she shortly realises that cultural variations – embodied in Nick’s forbidding mom (a splendidly steely Michelle Yeoh) – threaten her future happiness with him.
Saturday 21 Could, 10.20pm, BBC One
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Barry Keoghan brings a dead-eyed menace to this sometimes surreal 2017 drama from Yorgos Lanthimos. It’s the story of a wealthy surgeon named Steven (Colin Farrell) and an intense teenage boy, Martin (Keoghan), whose father died throughout one in every of his operations. Martin seeks justice, demanding that Steven kill his spouse (Nicole Kidman) or one in every of his two youngsters. If he doesn’t they are going to, in some way, all get sick and die. It’s a deadpan horror, coolly acted, with a weird however implacable logic derived from its supply textual content, Euripides’s Greek tragedy Iphigenia in Aulis.
Saturday 21 Could, 1.10am, Film4
Dogman
Marcello (Marcello Fonte) is a meek canine groomer making a small dwelling in a dilapidated city on the outskirts of Rome, spending high quality time along with his daughter Alida (Alida Baldari Calabria) and dealing some cocaine on the facet. Nonetheless, he has fallen right into a poisonous friendship with thuggish legal Simoncino (Edoardo Pesce), who entails the pliant man in his more and more harmful enterprises. Gomorrah director Matteo Garrone’s movie is one other nuanced, neo-realist slice of life on the margins, the place small errors can have a cumulatively devastating impact.
Sunday, 22 Could, 1.40am, Channel 4
I Am Not a Witch
This Bafta-winning drama from Zambian-Welsh writer-director Rungano Nyoni is a satirical condemnation of the follow of “witch camps” in some African nations, the place girls (normally previous) who're accused of sorcery are detained. Right here, a younger lady, Shula (Maggie Mulubwa) is exploited by the tourism minister Mr Banda (Henry BJ Phiri) for her supposed talents, whereas the opposite captives work the fields, ceaselessly tied to massive spools of ribbon. A heart-tugging combination of comedy and tragedy.
Sunday 22 Could, 1.50am, Film4
Suspicion
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1941 thriller was the primary of 4 fruitful collaborations with Cary Grant, although it’s the one one the place his main man performs a little bit of a unsuitable ’un. Grant’s Johnnie is an eligible bachelor, although a bit “wild” – however for normal’s daughter Lina (Joan Fontaine) he represents the joy she will’t discover in her snug, rural life. Nonetheless, after they elope, she realises he's an inveterate gambler and liar, closely in debt and, she suspects, able to homicide for monetary acquire. Fontaine received an Oscar for her function, seesawing convincingly between bliss and concern.
Thursday 26 Could, 9pm, BBC 4
Emergency
Two African-American faculty mates – bookish Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins) and laidback Sean (a powerful RJ Cyler) – have an epic spring break celebration evening deliberate, till they hit upon an unconscious white lady on their lounge flooring. The movie then flips between slapstick campus comedy and lethal severe racial drama because the duo (plus their nerdy Latino roommate) attempt to assist her, whereas avoiding a run-in with doubtlessly trigger-happy white cops. Carey Williams’s debut function makes its factors succinctly and powerfully, however at all times with a way of enjoyable.
Friday 27 Could, Amazon Prime Video
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