Acclaimed Norwegian director Joachim Trier catapults the viewer into the world of his most spellbinding protagonist yet: Julie (the magnetic Renate Reinsve), a med-school dropout navigating her twenties and juggling emotionally heavy relationships with two very different men.

Two young men are both friends & writers. One day, they dispatch their manuscripts from the same mailbox. When they do, their lives also take off, in ways that are at once unpredictable & understandable.

Adapted from the same novel as Louis Malle’s 1963 drama The Fire Within, Trier’s subtle, haunting second feature follows a semi-recovered addict as he tries to adjust to a new life.

This stunning adaptation of Edith Wharton’s novel about a secret passion within the enclosed social universe of 19th-century New York today feels like one of Martin Scorsese’s greatest achievements—a magnificent lament for missed chances and lost time.

The premise is deceptively straightforward: five teenagers—from different social strata, each uncomfortably navigating the pressures and expectations of high school—find themselves confined in detention one Saturday morning.

Both a spirited depiction of Paris in the ’60s and a substantive take on the female psyche, Cléo from 5 to 7 is one of the cornerstones of the French New Wave, enduring for its intelligent perspective on the strong, unpredictable emotions that arise when facing one’s mortality.

A mid-career triumph for Rohmer, the winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, follows a depressed, newly single Parisian secretary as she spends her summer vacation looking for happiness and true love.

This debut feature from Alain Resnais, written by Marguerite Duras, a story told in two tenses about the aftereffect of the atomic bomb as experienced by two lovers in Hiroshima, is one of the great masterworks of modernist cinema, now fully restored.

This breathlessly inventive film stars Mathieu Amalric as a navel-gazing academic who bounces between lovers as he struggles to break things off with his girlfriend. An NYFF34 selection.

Of all the Hollywood classics, few have aged so little, or so well, as this comedy of remarriage centered on warring trio Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, and Cary Grant.

The story of a film crew trying to make a political film, Remonstrance brilliantly captures the posing and grandstanding that sometimes accompanies political discussions, especially around correct form in art.