April, just like spring, is right around the corner so we’re lining up all the best titles coming to your favourite streaming services. Today we’re taking a look at titles that will be joining Mubi across the month, including Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s critically acclaimed and BAFTA award-winning Drive My Car.
Based on the short story of the same name by international bestselling author Haruki Murakami, the film follows stage actor and director Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), who’s wife Oto (Reika Kirishima) suddenly passes away leaving behind a secret.
Two years later, Kafuku, still unable to fully cope with the loss of his wife, receives an offer to direct a play at a theatre festival in Hiroshima. There, he meets Misaki (Toko Miura), a reticent woman assigned to be his chauffeur. As they spend time together, Kafuku confronts the mystery of his wife that quietly haunts him.
Also joining the service in April is Tatian Hue’s Prayers for the Stolen. Loosely adapted from Jennifer Clement’s 2014 novel, it follows the lives of three girls in Guerrero whose childhoods are overshadowed by the forceful and violent presence of the local cartel. Trained by their mothers to flee at any moment and forced into extreme measures to evade capture, these young women must learn to abandon their femininity in order to navigate their harsh surroundings.
As much a damning indictment of the hidden evils of an unjust war as it is a sensitive depiction of women living in the crossfire of gang warfare, this is an unforgettable story of friendship, family and survival uniquely told from a child’s-eye-view perspective.
Here’s a look at the full listings for the month:
1 April | Drive My Car | Ryusuke Hamaguchi | MUBI Spotlight
2 April | Oedipus Rex | Pier Paolo Pasolini | Pier Paolo Pasolini
3 April | In Fabric | Peter Strickland
4 April | Autumn Almanac | Béla Tarr | The Living And The Damned: Three Films By Béla Tarr
5 April | The Second Mother | Anna Muylaert
6 April | My Fat Arse and I | Yelyzaveta Pysmak | Brief Encounters | A MUBI Release
7 April | Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter | David Zellner
8 April | Lemon | Janicza Bravo
9 April | Sunset | László Nemes
10 April | The Woman in The Fifth | Paweł Pawlikowski
11 April | TBC
12 April | TBC
13 April | White Building | Kavich Neang | Viewfinder | A MUBI Release
14 April | Satantango | Béla Tarr | The Living And The Damned: Three Films By Béla Tarr
15 April | Showgirls | Paul Verhoeven | Showgirls: A Double Bill
16 April | You Don’t Nomi | Jeffrey McHale | Showgirls: A Double Bill
17 April | Songs for Drella | Edward Lachman | Rediscovered
18 April | Waltz With Bashir | Ari Folman
19 April | The Tale of King Crab | Alessio Rigo de Righi, Matteo Zoppis | Undiscovered | A MUBI Release
20 April | The Souvenir: Part II | Joanna Hogg | MUBI Spotlight
21 April | TBC
22 April | The Tango Lesson | Sally Potter
23 April | Reprise | Joachim Trier | Joachim Trier: The Oslo Trilogy
24 April | Lizzie | Craig William Macneill
25 April | TBC
26 April | The Turin Horse | Béla Tarr | The Living And The Damned: Three Films By Béla Tarr
27 April | TBC
28 April | TBC
29 April | Prayers for the Stolen | Tatiana Huezo | The New Auteurs | A MUBI Release
30 April | Lift to the Scaffold | Louis Malle
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