SCREEN TIME
Miriam Balanescu previews the top flicks for April
A bracing, heartfelt feature debut from Milena Aboyan where a young German-Kurdish woman navigates the clash between evolving societal norms and her family’s traditional values. As her wedding approaches, she faces the decision of hymen reconstruction, grappling with the implications of her choice. 26 April ELAHA
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In keeping with the recent flurry of films about the clock-watching mundanity of work and the quiet beauty of daily life – most recently The Delinquents – this Daisy Ridley drama is an office romance for the ages, with a touch of oddball surrealism and just a dash of existentialism. 19 April SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT DYING
Alex Garland’s latest release after the grisly, metamorphic horror Men sees Kirsten Dunst and Cailee Spaeny navigate the war-torn, dystopically split states of America. Dunst plays a photojournalist supposed to stay out of harm’s way, but her profession draws her ever-closer to disaster. A timely take on truth and politics. 12 April
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CHALLENGERS This steamy Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist ménage à trois from director Luca Guadagnino criss-crosses between past and present. Years after love forms a rift between two best friends, the now Grand Slam champion (O’Connor) takes on the former lover of his wife and coach. 26 April
MONKEY MAN Dev Patel shows how it’s done as lead man and director in this magnificent riff off the 1999 cult film Fight Club . Its plot sees a downtrodden employee simmering with injustice at his community’s oppression, toiling away in a violent underground network – all the while concocting revenge on the city’s elite. 5 April
MEN (2022) Before Alex Garland’s Civil War hits cinemas, revisit his eco-patriarchal horror seeing Rory Kinnear demonstrate his versatility as an actor. A woman seeks sanctuary after a terrifying tragedy ending in her husband’s death, only to be plagued by the village’s all-male inhabitants and the time-worn myth of the green man. 15 April
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