Mark Ruffalo and Robert Pattinson star in Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to the Oscar-laden Parasite, while Belén is the moving true story of a woman’s fight against a legal injustice that looks set to sweep this year’s Academy Awards
Bong Joon-ho’s follow-up to his Oscar-laden social satire Parasite is another sharp comedy about class and capitalism, this time set in space. A starship under the command of Mark Ruffalo’s Trumpesque politician is en route to colonise a distant planet. Robert Pattinson – who is becoming quite the character actor – stars as Mickey, an “expendable”: his identity has been downloaded so he can die any number of times and the crew just reprint a new body. But when he gets to version 17, an encounter with the new world’s louse-like inhabitants puts a spanner in the works. It’s not subtle, but the farcical action is played with gusto by Pattinson alongside Naomi Ackie and Toni Collette.
Friday 14 November 12.35pm, 8pm, Sky Cinema Premiere
“What do women see that men don’t?” That’s the question driving Margy Kinmonth’s enlightening history of female artists and how they respond to war. It ranges in time from second world war painters such as Laura Knight to the present-day likes of Fiona Banner and Rachel Whiteread; and geographically from Iran to Sudan to Ukraine. We see skilled artists using a range of techniques to reveal the underreported, female-centred aspects of conflict, with a focus on the many neglected talents who deserve a more prominent place in the cultural conversation.
