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  • SEASON 8
    Escape

    For TANK’s eighth season we present ten films spanning eight decades on one of cinema’s most enduring themes: escape. As our collective future appears increasingly blighted by global crises, cinema offers us a way to rethink and reframe how the search for other worlds might generate new ideas for our own. With films by Kryzsztof Kieślowski, Deniz Gamze Egüven, Andrei Tarkovsky, François Ozon, Cristian Mungiu, Hal Hartley, Atom Egoyan, Jean Vigo, Michael Haneke and Louis Malle – offering stories that cross borders, identities and contexts – this season looks at escape anew, not as resignation from our environment, but as re-engagement with it. No Longer available.

  • The Double Life of Veronique

    Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1991

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    The Double Life of Veronique

    Krzysztof Kieślowski | 1991

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    A metaphysical masterpiece, Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Veronique casts Irène Jacob as both Weronika, a Polish choir soprano, and her double, Véronique, a French music teacher. The pair don’t know each other, yet their lives exist in a shimmering, uncertain and mystical parallel, a doubling induced by Kieślowski’s cinegraphic resonance and Zbigniew Preisner’s symphonic score. 

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    Maddie Mortimer’s debut novel Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies won this year’s Desmond Elliott Prize and was, last week, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. Saskia Dixie is an independent filmmaker whose work has been screened at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London, ALEX Berlin, Germany and the Barbican Centre, London, amongst others. Here, they discussed their post-viewing impressions of Ingmar Bergman’s Summer with Monika as the credits roll.  

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  • Mustang

    Deniz Gamze Ergüven | 2015

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    Mustang

    Deniz Gamze Ergüven | 2015

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    Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Oscar-nominated debut, Mustang, fizzes with the restlessness of childhood, as we follow five orphaned sisters growing up in rural Turkey. Set among a conservatve community where marriageability is king, the girls’ dreams of independence and freedom are soon curtailed for a rigorous domestic education and a queue of potential suitors. Narrated by the youngest, Lale, who rebels against her pre-determined fate, Mustang is an unforgettable depiction of female struggle.

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    Thomas Roueché is editor at TANK. Dea Gjinovci is a Swiss-Albanian filmmaker based between Paris and Geneva. Her first feature documentary film, Réveil sur Mars, follows a 10-year-old Roma boy living in Sweden as he attempts to come to terms with the mysterious Resignation syndrome that has put his two sisters in a coma; it was nominated for Best Documentary Film at the Swiss Film Awards earlier this year. Here, Thomas and Dea discuss their immediate post-viewing impressions as the credits roll on Mustang. 

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  • Nostalghia

    Andrei Tarkovsky | 1983

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    Nostalghia

    Andrei Tarkovsky | 1983

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    Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia immerses us in a distinctly Tarkovskian world of dreamlike waterlogged landscapes, alienated artists and apocalyptic dread, as we follow poet Andrei Gorchakov travelling through Italy researching the life of 18th-century composer, Pavel Sosnovsky. Released in 1983, towards the end of Tarkovsky’s industrious career, Nostalghia is filled with reflections on exile, time and memory, beautifully rendered through his protracted, oneiric sequences, each of which feel like their own exquisite artwork.

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  • Le Refuge

    François Ozon | 2009

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    Le Refuge

    François Ozon | 2009

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    Ozon’s restrained feature follows Mousse (Isabelle Carré), a drug addict who discovers she’s pregnant after her lover Louis (Melvil Poupaud) dies of an overdose. Grieving and alone, she decides to keep the baby, and flees from Louis’ disapproving mother to a house by the sea. Le Refuge is about the safety we seek in other people, and the unpredictable places we find it. As Ozon stated: “What I wanted to do here was to start with darkness, violence, cruelty, and go towards light.”

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  • Graduation

    Cristian Mungiu | 2016

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    Graduation

    Cristian Mungiu | 2016

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    How far will a parent go to secure the best for their children? This is the moral question at the heart of Cristian Mungiu’s parabolic work Graduation, set in modern-day Transylvania in Romania. Graduation follows the increasingly convoluted methods that Romeo, a middle-aged doctor, undergoes to fix the exam results of his daughter Magda, who has a scholarship to Cambridge University. Inspired by Mungiu’s problematizing of his own role as a father, Graduation is a moving meditation on the whisker-thin line between virtue and corruption.

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    Matthew Janney is a writer and former managing editor at TANK. Paula Erizanu is a writer and journalist and previous culture editor at The Calvert Journal. Here, they discuss their immediate post-viewing impressions as the credits roll on Graduation.  

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  • Amateur

    Hal Hartley | 1994

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    Amateur

    Hal Hartley | 1994

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    From the bath, Thomas looks up at Isabelle and asks, “How can you be a nymphmaniac and you’ve never had sex?” She, smoking, thinking: “I’m choosy.” Amateur is the story of a truly zany trio: ex-nun turned pornographer Isabelle, ex-pornographer turned amnesiac Thomas and his vengeful ex-partner sex-worker Sofia, enmeshed in a blackmail plot with a crooked businessman. A playful and freewheeling film that nevertheless strikes a serious note: can anyone ever be sure they know who they really are?

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    Rosa Lyster is a writer from Cape Town who lives in London. Leo Robson is a literary and cultural critic. Here, they discuss their immediate post-viewing impressions as the credits roll on Amateur.

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  • Calendar

    Atom Egoyan | 1993

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    Calendar

    Atom Egoyan | 1993

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    Egoyan’s Calendar is a slowly unfolding story about diasporic fracture. A photographer (Egoyan himself) and his wife, both second-generation Armenian-Canadians, travel to Armenia to take pictures for a commercial calendar. While his wife becomes increasingly immersed in the culture, landscape and people of their shared homeland, the photographer hides himself ever-further behind his viewfinder. Egoyan’s deeply personal film traces the growing alienation between the couple, while the landscapes and historical sites of Armenia bloom before the lens.

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    Devorah Baum is an author and Associate Professor in English Literature and Critical Theory at the University of Southampton. Josh Appignanesi is a film director, producer, and screenwriter. Here, they discuss their immediate post-viewing impressions as the credits roll on Calendar.

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  • L'Atalante

    Jean Vigo | 1934

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    L'Atalante

    Jean Vigo | 1934

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    Made only weeks before Vigo’s death, aged 29, from tuberculosis, L’Atalante follows Jean, a barge captain, and Juliette, his young wife, aboard Jean’s boat L’Atalante in the water-sluiced and murky weeks of their early marriage. The waterways and damp environment of the canals between Paris and Le Havre form a muddy framework for their volatile and sometimes surreally-inflected romance, whose partings and passions are as changeable as water.

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    Omoba Antoinette Oyinkansola Fernandez is an SFF writer and graduate from The London Film School. Andrew Key writes Roland Barfs Film Diary and is the author of Ross Hall, a novel about Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Grand Iota, 2022). Here, they discuss their post-viewing thoughts as the credits roll on L'Atalante.

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  • Amour

    Michael Haneke | 2012

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    Amour

    Michael Haneke | 2012

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    Michael Haneke’s Amour follows the relationship of retired musicians and music teachers Anne and Georges, after a stroke severs the everyday serenity of their long life together. The film’s uncompromising and disarming account of the toll of ageing and illness is inflected by love and the act of caretaking, which appears in uncommon but recognisable forms. As Haneke himself said of the film: “People always fight to maintain their dignity, and the more difficult the situation you’re in, the bigger the battle. That’s our fate as humans.”

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  • Black Moon

    Louis Malle | 1975

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    Black Moon

    Louis Malle | 1975

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    A psychological shapeshifter of a film, Louis Malle’s Black Moon is a flickeringly Freudian slink through the aftermath of some unspecified apocalyptic event. The beautiful young Lily navigates a dark and dank countryside in which a mysterious war is being fought, taking refuge in a farmhouse where she becomes entangled in the strange workings of a family.

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    Mary Wild is a film researcher, writer, lecturer and co-host of The Projections Podcast. Isabel Millar is a philosopher, psychoanalytic theorist and screenwriter. Here, they discuss their post-viewing thoughts as the credits roll on Black Moon.

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