James R | On 08, Apr 2023

Following its theatrical release in March, Lukas Dhont’s Close, winner of the Grand Prix award at Cannes 2022, arrives on MUBI. It’s joined by spotlights on Christophe Honoré, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Bill Douglas and Joan Micklin Silver – one of the few women to sustain a career as a director in Hollywood in the 1970s

In the meantime, it’s your last chance to stream Sweat, Short Term 12, Undine and The Great Beauty.

What’s new, coming soon and leaving soon? Read on for your monthly MUBI Digest.

 

This month on MUBI

Winter Sleep – 1st April

Nuri Bilge Celyan follows a retired actor in this slow but rich drama.

Jamie – 5th April

Jaime Saldaña’s This unexpectedly powerful character portrait pulls you into its spell fast and deep. Blurring the boundaries between truth and fiction, director Francisco Javier Rodríguez interrogates what reality really means.

Hester Street – 6th April

Joan Micklin Silver’s is debut described among the great cinematic portraits of Jewish-American life with an Oscar-nominated performance by Carol Kane.

Sorry Angel – 8th April

Jacques is a writer living in Paris. He hasn’t turned 40 but already mistrusts that the best in life is yet to come. Arthur is a student living in Brittany. He reads and smiles a lot and refuses to think that everything in life might not be possible.

The Limey – 9th April

Its stroke-of-genius pairing of two ’60s icons aside, Soderbergh’s underrated gem is a down-to-earth crime thriller that’s cut like an art film.

My Ain Folk – 10th April

Tommy is taken to a home whilst Jamie goes to live with his grandmother whose cold contempt is only alleviated by her drinking habits.

The Plains – 12th April

David Easteal’s minimalist debut is an existential road film reflecting on the passage of time shot entirely from the backseat of a car. Every day at 5pm Andrew, a middle-aged man working in a community legal centre, drives home through Melbourne’s suburbs in peak-hour traffic occasionally offering a lift home to his younger colleague David. Over a year, their tentative small talk gives way to a friendship and open conversation within the confines of the vehicle.

Between the Lines – 13th April

An ensemble dramedy about an alternative newspaper in Boston starring Jeff Goldblum, John Heard and Lindsay Crouse.

Magic Mike – 14th April

Soderbergh’s surprising drama follows Mike Lane, who’s saving up money to start a furniture business and performs as “Magic Mike” in a strip club at night.

The Wild Pear Tree – 15th April

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s poetic, novelistic piece of cinema depicts the arrogance of youth with funny, moving nuance.

On a Magical Night – 16th April

Maria, a middle-aged professor, leaves her husband after he discovers her infidelity with a younger man. Seeking refuge in a hotel across the street from their apartment, she reflects on her past relationships and sexual experiences through a series of magical and surreal encounters with her younger self and former lover.

My Way Home – 17th April

After a spell in foster care and a homeless shelter, Jamie is conscripted into the Royal Air Force and sent to Egypt. Befriended by Robert, Jamie finds redemption in his new friendship. Their undemanding companionship releases Jamie from self-pity and allows him to pursue his artistic ambition.

A Fish in the Bathtub – 20th April

This 1999 film stars legendary comedy duo Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, and a young Mark Ruffalo.

Close – 21st April

Thirteen-year-olds Léo (Eden Dambrine) and Rémi (Gustav De Waele) are inseparable; they spend every waking moment together, racing each other on their bikes, playing in the fields that surround their homes, and sleeping at each other’s houses. They are best friends, as close as brothers. However as they start a new school year, the pressures of burgeoning adolescence challenge their bond with unexpected and far-reaching consequences.

Traffic – 30th April

The head of the National Drug Control Policy discovers that his daughter is abusing cocaine. In Mexico, a policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin’s trophy wife must learn her husband’s ruthless business after he is arrested.

 

Other titles also coming to MUBI UK in April 2023:

2nd April
Teorema

3rd April
The All-Round Reduced Personality – Redupers

4th April

7th April
Varda by Agnès

10th April
Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat

18th April
Nina

19th April
The Death of Louis XIV

22nd April
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

23rd April
Zama

24th April
Light Years

25th April
Of Human Bondage

26th April
Tehran: City of Love

27th April
Quartet

 

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Last chance to stream: Titles leaving MUBI soon

The Tale of King Crab
Available until: 19th April 2023

Apostasy
Available until: 11th April 2023

Eldorado XXI
Available until: 14th April 2023

Apples
Available until: 20th April 2023

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Available until: 10th April 2023

Japón
Available until: 9th April 2023

Canticle of All Creatures
Available until: 14th April 2023

The Face You Deserve
Available until: 14th April 2023

No Man’s Land
Available until: 14th April 2023

Patang
Available until: 14th April 2023

Bom
Available until: 14th April 2023

I.D.
Available until: 14th April 2023

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