Few actors of his generation have engineered a transformation as radical and deliberate. Swiftly leaving behind the constraints of global teen stardom, Robert Pattinson chose to place his screen presence and magnetic vulnerability at the service of uncompromising, razor-sharp auteur cinema. From the antiseptic excesses of late capitalism to black-and-white claustrophobia and the feverish underworld of modern alienation, the British actor has redefined his craft through characters that are raw, erratic, and perpetually on the verge of collapse. Five key titles tracing the evolution of a restless talent.
Making his fiction debut, documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim draws on a controversial chapter in American television history, exploring the grey zone between investigative journalism, entertainment, and justice. In 2006, Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson), host of “To Ca...
A road movie stubbornly punctuated by the hiccups of classism in the post-9/11 and post-2008 financial crash era: Cronenberg adapts DeLillo through the reflection of a tinted window inside billionaire Eric Packer’s limousine. A Dantean journey where Eros and Thanatos meet against the backdrop of a Manhattan in revolt.
The story in three acts (of fury) tracing the childhood of a future fascist leader. The directorial debut of Brady Corbet, awarded the Orizzonti Award and the Lion of the Future in Venice.
A feverish tour de force compressed into a single night. Nick, who lives with cognitive disabilities, is arrested following a bank robbery, while his brother Connie embarks on a desperate escape to break him out. An infected, underground America and a stark dilemma between ethics and blood ties.
A hard-to-categorize “daguerreotype of dread,” but also an unapologetically Freudian black-and-white hallucination driven by erratic dialogue under the hypnotic glare of a lighthouse beacon.
The frayed, exhausted love story between Grace and Jackson. An unvarnished portrait of psychological distress in all its agonizing complexity. All filtered through a photographic clarity that wraps pain in a dreamlike, almost numbing texture.
