David Farnor | On 02, Nov 2022

MUBI is a global streaming service, production company and film distributor, which has become the go-to place for new and old classics from around the world, ranging from hand-picked debuts to festival favourites. This month, MUBI shines a spotlight on Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom, while also tipping its hat to a range of other distinctive filmmakers, including Claire Denis, Park Chan-Wook, Jacques Audiard and Jafar Panahi.

In the meantime, it’s your last chance to stream The Souvenir and A Hard Day’s Night.

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

 

This month on MUBI

Il Buco – 2nd November

Ten years since his last release, Le Quattro Volte, Michelangelo Frammartino brings us Il Buco (2021), a breathtaking docudrama based on the true story of a group of speleologists who explore Europe’s deepest cave in the Calabrian hinterland. Their venture goes unnoticed by the inhabitants of a neighbouring village, but not by an old shepherd whose solitary life interweaves with the group’s journey. Apart from a little chat and murmur among the speleologists, Il Buco (2021) is without dialogue or subtitles, the focus solely on the journey as they reach the bottom of the cave, 700 meters below Earth, for the first time.

Time to Love – 3rd November

MUBI’s first restoration project, Time to Love (1965), the offbeat melodrama from Golden Bear-winning Turkish auteur Metin Erksan, explores the impulses of the sensual self with misty black-and-white cinematography. Halil, who is working as a house painter at a mansion, falls in love with a photograph hanging on the wall. The portrait of the woman comes to life, but he is only in love with her image, not with her. 

Tehran Taxi – 8th November


Panahi drives a yellow cab through the vibrant streets of Tehran interviewing a diverse range of passengers who candidly express their views. Winner of Berlin’s top prize, the Golden Bear.




Starfuckers – 10th November

Starfuckers (2022), the formally daring queer revenge thriller featuring actor-director Antonio Marziale in an electrifying drag performance, takes direct aim at the abusive power structures of Hollywood. In a lavish LA villa on a sultry summer night, an intimate evening between a film director and an escort is disrupted when a familiar face arrives.

The Box – 11th November

Winner of the Venice Film Festival’s Leoncino d’Oro Agiscuola Award – Cinema for UNICEF, The Box (2021) concludes Venezuelan writer-director Lorenzo Vigas’ trilogy, which includes his short Elephants Never Forget (2004) and his feature debut, From Afar (Festival 2016), winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Hatzin (Hatzin Navarrete), a young teenager from Mexico City, travels to collect the remains of his father, which have been found in a communal grave in the northern part of Mexico. But a casual encounter with a man Mario (Hernán Mendoza) who shares a physical resemblance with his father puts in doubt the certainty of his father’s death and above all, opens the possibility of re-establishing a father-son relationship the young man so deeply desires.

Both Sides of the Blade – 18th November

Juliette Binoche (Sara) and Vincent Lindon’s (Jean) performances are nothing short of powerful in Denis’s latest film. Sara and Jean have been happily together for ten years until Sara has a chance encounter with François, an old flame and Jean’s former best friend, which forces her to face her feelings for both men. When François asks Jean to work for him, all three are drawn into a web of deception and desire. 

Sexual Desire – 23rd November

Married designer Enatsu worries about his sexless life. Office worker Akane is recovering from panic attacks. Elite advertising agent Ikeyama wants to end the relationship with his lover. A shabby man named Kurita appears before all three, presenting each with a secret. A tryptic of interconnected stories about sex, aphrodisiac foods and secret desires.

3 Faces – 24th November

Panahi and actor Behnaz Jafari travel to a tiny village after receiving a plea for help from a girl whose family has forbidden her from studying acting. Winner of the Best Screenplay at 2018 Cannes Film Festival.

The Kingdom Exodus – 27th November

The long-awaited third and final series of Lars von Trier’s The Kingdom, The Kingdom Exodus, (2022), will be arriving exclusively on MUBI, debuting a weekly episode from 27th November. In the lead-up to the release of The Kingdom Exodus, (2022), newly restored, never-seen-before versions of the 1990s cult classic series can be found on MUBI with The Kingdom (1994) releasing on 13th November, shortly followed by The Kingdom II (1997) on 20th November. 

Hold Me Tight – 30th November

Actor-director Mathieu Amalric’s latest film Hold Me Tight (2021) stars Vicky Krieps in one of her most daring and jaw-dropping performances as a mother who unexpectedly leaves her family behind. The unique exploration or grief and abandonment unravels its puzzle-like mystery with its intertwining narratives blurring the lines between reality and fantasy.   

 

Other titles also coming to MUBI UK in November 2022:

1st November
Vic + Flo Saw a Bear

4th November
Force Majeure

5th November
Oldboy (2003)
See How They Fall

7th November
Joy of Man’s Desiring

12th November
Naked Lunch

13th November
The Unheavenly Host

15th November
Boris without Beatrice
Read My Lips

17th November
Lady Vengeance

20th November
Mors In Tabula 

21st November
The Cup

22nd November
A Skin So Soft

24th November
Thirst

26th November
The Beat That My Heart Skipped

29th November
Little Girl

30th November
The Balcony Movie

 

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Last chance to stream: Titles leaving MUBI soon



The Souvenir
Available until: 3rd November 2022

Maelstrom
Available until: 5th November 2022

A Hard Day’s Night
Available until: 5th November 2022
Accidental Luxuriance of the Translucent Watery Rebus
Available until: 16th November 2022

Night of the Living Dead
Available until: 30th November 2022

Speak Up
Available until: 30th November 2022

A Page of Madness
Available until: 30th November 2022

My American Uncle
Available until: 30th November 2022

Along the Coast
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Charade
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Black Panthers
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Mysterious Skin
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Agnes Varda: From Here to There
Available until: 30th November 2022

Women Reply: Our Bodies, Our Sex
Available until: 30th November 2022

The General
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Man With a Movie Camera
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Daguerréotypes
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Salut les Cubains
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A German Youth
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Holy Motors
Available until: 2nd December 2022

The Misfortunates
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Arab Blues
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Earth Light
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Ulysse
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Documenteur
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Nanook of the North
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Mur Murs
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A Time for Drunken Horses
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The Tower
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Ramen Shop
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Love at Sea
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The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later
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Adolescents
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Pickpocket
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At War
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Asako I & II
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Like Someone in Love
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Love Affair
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Kung-Fu Master!
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The Thief of Bagdad
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Night Comes On
Available until: 20th November 2022

Lions Love (… and Lies)
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Ydessa, the Bears and etc.
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Echo
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Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue
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Foolish Wives
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Wall Engravings
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The Marriage Circle
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The Pleasure of Love in Iran
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Manta Ray
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Night Train
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Radiance
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Paranoid Park
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The Fiancés of the Bridge Mac Donald
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A Girl Missing
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The Trouble with You
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You’ve Got Beautiful Stairs, You Know
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Sibyl
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Junior
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Elsa la rose
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The Vanishing Lion
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Under the Tree
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Earwig
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Masques
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L’animale
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I Wish I Knew
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Remorques
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Faces of Children
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Lust
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Dopamine
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Fait Vivir
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Abouna
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Gritt
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Mr. India
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Little Fellas
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April’s Daughter
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7p., cuis., s. de b., … à saisir
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Ugly
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Loktak Lairembee
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Cold Meridian
Available until: 1st December 2022

Sophia Antipolis
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Dhanak
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Merry-Go-Round
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Shanghai
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No Man’s Land
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Jessica Forever
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Life Is a Bed of Roses
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Gurgaon
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Monsoon Shootout
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Compliance
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Orly
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Smugglers’ Songs
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Holy Beasts
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Father’s Little Dividend
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The Churning of Kalki
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Noise
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Rati Chakravyuh
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I Want to Go Home
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After the Battle
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Et Cetera
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Performing Death
Available until: 30th November 2022

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