Red Rooms
Firebrand
20 September Causing quite the stir at Cannes where it premiered earlier this year, Coralie Fargeat’s follow- up to Revenge is provocative and impossibly stylish – a no-holds-barred attack on patriarchal beauty standards. The Substance
6 September There are echoes of recent horror classics Censor and Longlegs in this serial killer caper concerning a woman tracking down a crucial piece of evidence, while skewering true crime culture.
6 September Alicia Vikander dazzles as Katherine Parr, the final wife of Henry VIII who stoked the flames of Protestantism in Britain – she stars opposite Jude Law, who plays an ever- ailing king.
Timestalker
27 September After Prevenge , jack of all trades Alice Lowe returns with a zany time-hopping anti-romcom where a woman, repeatedly reincarnated to live in different centuries, falls in love with the wrong man over and over.
27 September Francis Ford Coppola’s (possibly) final film takes a futuristic, fantastical America as its setting – home to ‘New Rome’, where an artist (Adam Driver) and the regressive mayor go head to head. An ambitious, if sometimes muddled, epic. Megalopolis
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12 September In September, there will be more opportunities to catch Jodie Comer in this thrilling one-woman legal drama. National Theatre Live: Prima Facie
30 August Based on the 1844 novel, this tale sees a sailor adopt a new identity to exact justice on those who wronged him.
2 September Ai Weiwei and Grayson Perry feature in a film about the Artists Against Fascism member Eric Ravilious.
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