April 15, 2023
Aftersun on MUBI from 6th January 2023

MUBI In January Will Be ‘Critically Acclaimed’

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2023 is only a few days away and MUBI are set to make the new a ‘critically acclaimed’ one. Following a hugely successful theatrical release in November, Charlotte Wells’ critically acclaimed and award-winning Aftersun (2022) will be available to stream exclusively on the channel  in January.

The stunning feature debut received its World Premiere at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the French Touch Jury Prize. It was recently nominated for 16 BIFAs, making it the second most nominated film ever for a single title, and took home seven awards including Best British Independent Film, Best Director, The Douglas Hickox Award for Best Debut Director and Best Screenplay. Wells also won Breakthrough Director for the film at the 2022 Gotham Awards.

At a fading vacation resort in the late 1990s, 11-year-old Sophie (Frankie Corio) treasures rare time together with her loving and idealistic father, Calum (Paul Mescal). As a world of adolescence creeps into view, beyond her eye Calum struggles under the weight of life outside of fatherhood. Twenty years later, Sophie’s tender recollections of their last holiday become a powerful and heartrending portrait of their relationship, as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t

Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022) – 6th January

Also arriving on MUBI this January is Charlotte Wells’ first short film, Tuesday (2015): Every Tuesday, sixteen-year-old Allie stays with her dad and insists that this week will be no exception. Throughout the course of the day, she endures awkward encounters with family and friends before finally arriving at her dad’s flat where her routine is broken by the silence of an empty home.

MANIFESTO
Cate Blanchett in Manifesto
With the upcoming release of Tár (Todd Field, 2022) in January, MUBI  will release Julian Rosefeldt’s Manifesto (2016) will be available to stream on the platform.

In this captivating art installation turned feature film, Cate Blanchett portrays 13 distinct characters, including a homeless man, an anchorwoman, a factory worker and a corporate CEO. All of them in vignettes that incorporate timeless manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth century, ranging from Communism to Dogme 95 and Pop Art. Rosefeldt’s integration of art and life is seamless, whilst Cate Blanchett’s immersion into each character is transfixing. Manifesto (2016) makes for a compelling watch and is definitely not one to miss.

Manifesto (Julian Rosefeldt, 2016) – 13th January

LOVE, LUST AND ANARCHY: THE FILMS OF FASSBINDER

Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the eternal enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, was a formidable creative force who left behind a colossal body of work before his untimely death at the age of 37. From theatre and television to cinema, Fassbinder conquered them all. Imbued with a romantic yet anarchic spirit, his films relish the pleasures and pains of love as well as unrequited longing, all while attesting to the sociopolitical disorder creeping through post-war West Germany.

Our Fassbinder focus kicks off this January with Love is Colder than Death (1969) and Beware of a Holy Whore (1971) and moves from the deliberately theatrical staging of his early films to works from the mid-1970s, when the director began to inject the stylistic elements of classic melodrama into his provocative character studies.

Love is Colder than Death (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969) – 1st January
Beware of a Holy Whore (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1971) – 16th January
The Bitter Tears Petra Von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972) – 28th January
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1974) – Coming Soon
Chinese Roulette (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976) – Coming Soon

CLAUDE CHABROL

This month, MUBI presents a special series focusing on the work of filmmaker Claude Chabrol. Often referred to as the ‘French Hitchcock’, he was one of the most prolific directors of the New Wave and went on to make a film almost every year from 1958 until his death in 2010.

Arriving on the platform first is Madame Bovary (1991): bored with the tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon.

Chabrol’s stylish thriller The Flower of Evil (2003) which depicts the French bourgeoisie follows, and all begins to unravel for what seems to be the perfect family when Anne decides to run for mayor.

Madame Bovary (Claude Chabrol, 1991) – 14th January 
The Flower Of Evil (Claude Chabrol, 2003) – 29th January
La Cérémonie (Claude Chabrol, 1995) – Coming Soon
Story of Women (Claude Chabrol, 1988) – Coming Soon

FESTIVAL FOCUS: ROTTERDAM

Timed to coincide with the 2023 edition of the festival, Festival Focus: Rotterdam returns with 3 gems from last year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam: Roberto Doveris’ indie comedy Phantom Project (2022) described as “the Chilean version of Friends for the YouTube generation,” A Human Position (2022) from Anders Emblem, a portrait of a young Norwegian woman doubling as a societal commentary on life in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (2022), a luminous, naturalistic 16mm sci-fi short queering the notion of family from artist, filmmaker and writer Pedro Neves Marques.

Becoming Male in the Middle Ages (Pedro Neves Marques, 2022) – 25th January
A Human Position (Anders Emblem, 2022) – 30th January
Phantom Project (Roberto Doveris, 2022) – Coming Soon

FIRST FILMS FIRST

Our annual series First Films First kicks off the year highlighting a fresh selection of debut films from cinema’s finest auteurs. This year we revisit the films that launched the careers of distinguished directors including: Paul W.S Anderson’s shocking debut, Shopping (1994), Lars von Trier’s neo-noir crime thriller The Element of Crime (1984), Jeff Nichols’ poetic and powerful Shotgun Stories (2007) and more.

Love is Colder than Death (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1969) – 1st January
Shopping (Paul W.S. Anderson, 1994) – 2nd January
Identification Marks: None (Jerzy Skolimowski, 1964) – 3rd January
Short Sharp Shock (Fatih Akin, 1998) –4th January
Summer 1993 (Carla Simón, 2017) – 5th January
Shotgun Stories (Jeff Nichols, 2007 ) – 7th January
Bhaji on the Beach (Gurinder Chadha, 1984 ) – 8th January
The Element of Crime (Lars von Trier, 1984) – 12th January

MUBI RELEASES
Exclusive streaming premieres from the most prestigious international film festivals and rediscovered classics selected by MUBI’s curators

[Rediscovered] The pioneering Polish filmmaker Wanda Jakubowska brought Auschwitz to the screen in The Last Stage (1948), just years after experiencing the war’s horrors herself. Having drawn from her own experiences, the film builds a collective portrait of an international group of women trying to survive the nightmare of the camp focusing on their heroism, resiliency and solidarity. Lauded as one of the earliest efforts to describe the horrors of the Holocaust, the historic film was restored in 4k by Poland’s National Film Archive.

MUBI UK JANUARY 2023

1 January | Love Is Colder Than Death| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | First Films First
2 January | Shopping | Paul W.S. Anderson | First Films First
3 January | Identification Marks: None | Jerzy Skolimowski | First Films First
4 January | Short Sharp Shock | Faith Akin | First Films First
5 January | Summer 1993 | Carla Simón | First Films First
6 January | Aftersun | Charlotte Wells | Debuts
7 January | Shotgun Stories | Jeff Nichols | First Films First
8 January | Bhaji On The Beach | Gurinder Chadha | First Films First
9 January | I Am Not Madame Bovary | Feng Xiaogang
10 January | Rojo | Benjamín Naishtat
11 January | The Last Stage | Wanda Jakubowska | Rediscovered
12 January | The Element Of Crime | Lars Von Trier | First Films First
13 January | Manifesto | Julian Rosefeldt
14 January | Madame Bovary | Claude Chabrol | Claude Chabrol
15 January | An Angel At My Table | Jane Campion
16 January | Beware Of A Holy Whore | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Love, Lust and Anarchy: The Films of Fassbinder
17 January | Coming soon
18 January | Actual People | Kit Zauhar | Debuts
19 January | The Castle Of Purity | Arturo Ripstein | Such Is Life: The Films of Arturo Ripstein
20 January | Coming soon
21 January | Elles | Malgorzata Szumowska
22 January | Beach Rats | Eliza Hittman
23 January | Los Bastardos | Amat Escalante | Spiritual Prisoners: An Amat Escalante Double-Bill
24 January | Coming soon
25 January | Becoming Male In The Middle Ages | Pedro Neves Marques | Brief Encounters | Festival Focus: Rotterdam
26 January | Wajib | Annemarie Jacir
27 January | Boy | Taika Waititi
28 January | The Bitter Tears Of Petra von Kant | Rainer Werner Fassbinder | Love, Lust and Anarchy: The Films of Fassbinder
29 January | The Flower Of Evil | Claude Chabrol
30 January | A Human Position | Anders Emblem | Festival Focus: Rotterdam
31 January | Tuesday | Charlotte Wells

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