What’s coming soon to BFI Player in August 2023?
David Farnor | On 03, Aug 2023
BFI Player is a gateway to global film, offering a collection of arthouse and world cinema to subscribers, alongside its pay-per-view rental releases and free archive titles and silent movie shorts.
From Pretty Red Dress to The Score, here’s what’s coming to BFI Player’s subscription service in August 2023:
El Angel (2018) – 3rd August
The controversial exploits of baby-faced Argentine serial killer Carlos Robledo Puch are exhilaratingly reinterpreted in this stylish biopic.
Pretty Red Dress – 7th August
One dress changes everything for a family in Dionne Edwards’ spirited debut, which investigates Black masculinity and family structures.
We Love Moses (2016) – 7th August
Twelve year old Ella’s obsession with her brother’s best friend Moses leaves her with a secret to take to the grave.
Immaculate Conception (1992) – 10th August
A Western couple working in Pakistan visit a holy shrine to help them conceive. They are lavished with the attentions of the shrine’s leader and her followers, but their methods and motives are not all that they seem.
Towers of Silence (1975) – 10th August
Dehlavi’s Towers of Silence weaves scenes of Zoroastrian funerary rituals – in which bodies are consumed by vultures – with glimpses of armed insurrection, juxtaposing traumatic landscapes of sex, death and faith.
The Blood of Hussain (1980) – 10th August
The annual mourning procession for the murdered Hussain, grandson of the prophet Muhammad, is the setting for an allegorical tale of revolutionary struggle against injustice and oppression.
The Lover (1992) – 10th August
Jean-Jacques Annaud’s powerful, intimate, and sensual adaptation of the best-selling novel by Marguerite Duras.
The Score (2021) – 14th August
A musical crime thriller with an unsettling edge, starring Johnny Flynn and Will Poulter.
The Living End (1992) – 17th August
In this cult piece of New Queer Cinema, two unlikely buddies hit the road with a nihilistic mission after they’re both diagnosed with HIV.
Rebel Dread (2021) – 17th August
This is the story of the iconic Don Letts, the coolest cultural polymath – narrated by the man himself.
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