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THE ROADS NOT TAKEN ( 15)

LONDON- BORN filmmaker Sally Potter nursed her younger brother Nic, a musician and composer who was a bass guitarist for rock group Van der Graaf Generator, when he displayed early onset dementia until his death from pneumonia in 2013 aged 61.

This experience drip- feeds into The Roads Not Taken, an intentionally disorienting drama about the relationship between a daughter and her scholarly father, who is slowly being consumed by the fog of dementia.

Molly ( Elle Fanning) shepherds her father Leo ( Javier Bardem, both pictured) to appointments with a dentist and an optician. But an encounter with Leo’s acid- tongued ex- wife Rita ( Laura Linney) forces her crestfallen daughter to contemplate the harsh reality of the situation.

Meanwhile, Leo leafs through pages of his memory scrapbook, recalling emotionally bruising times with his first love Dolores ( Salma Hayek) and a chance encounter with a pretty tourist called Anni ( Milena Tscharntke).

Fanning and Bardem are mesmerising, but curiously, the writer director’s most personal film is frustratingly impersonal in its artful execution.

THE PAINTED BIRD ( 18) PREVIEW

SHOT in lustrous black and white, Czech writer- director Vaclav Marhoul’s stark wartime drama is an adaptation of Jerzy’s Kosinski’s 1965 novel.

The horrors of the Second World War are witnessed through the eyes of a nameless Jewish boy ( Petr Kotlar), sent by his parents to live with an aunt to evade the Nazis. Alas, the aunt dies and the boy must fend for himself.

He seeks sanctuary with strangers, including a miller ( Udo Kier), Catholic priest ( Harvey Keitel) and the mysterio Gabros ( Julian Sands pictured), who treat him with varying degrees of kindness and contempt as he realises his countrymen and women may pose as much of a threat to his life as the Germans.

Released: September 11 in selected cinemas

LA HAINE ( 15)

PREVIEW

TO mark its 25th anniversary, a sparkling 4K restoration of Mathieu Kassovitz’s acclaimed picture returns to selected cinemas, replete with a hip hop soundtrack to mirror the trials and tribulations of disenchanted young people in Paris in the aftermath of a riot.

Unfolding over one day, La Haine is glimpsed from the perspectives of three men: a young Arab called Said ( Said Taghmaoui), Jewish brawler Vinz ( Vincent Cassel) and black boxer Hubert ( Hubert Kounde, above).