Essential movies to watch this Autumn

FUSE Magazine film writer and movie buff Dwayne Lennoxs picks his movie highlights and must-sees for Winter 2023, including The Blue Caftan, Till, Living and Love Again.

The Blue Caftan
A visually beautiful love story

With her exploration of mortality and sexuality in a small Moroccan town, writer-director Maryam Touzani takes the premise of a love triangle and imbues it with rare emotional nuance and complexity. When a closeted gay tailor (Saleh Bakri) and his wife (Lubna Azabal) take on a handsome new apprentice (Ayoub Missioui), they find their relationship turned upside down. The Playlist calls The Blue Caftan

“...a rich, vibrant ode to love in all its many forms”.

The acting and film work is superb, and the story is wonderfully sensitive and poignant.

Till
A profoundly emotional FILM

One of the biggest surprises on the morning of the announcement of 2022 Oscar nominations was the omission of Danielle Deadwyler from the Best Actress line-up; Deadwyler, a SAG, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominee, was considered a shoo-in. Deadwyler plays Mamie Till Mobley, the mother of 14-year-old Emmett Till who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955, and the film follows her relentless pursuit of justice. Till is directed by Chinonye Chukwu (Clemency). An exceptional film, Till — based on true events — is a profoundly emotionally wrenching drama not to be missed. 

Till asks us to look beyond individual legal outcomes and see the bigger picture – to take strength from tragedy and find hope even in despair.

Living
A tender film about human connection

It’s somewhat hard to believe that it has taken until this year for veteran British actor Bill Nighy (of Love, Actually fame) to receive his first-ever Oscar nomination. Less surprising is that Nighy gives a career-best performance in this period drama by queer filmmaker Oliver Hermanus (Beauty; Moffie), written by novelist Kazuo Ishiguro and adapted from the 1952 Akira Kurosawa film Ikiru. Bill  Nighy plays a bureaucrat in 1953 London who up-ends his quiet, staid existence when he’s diagnosed with a terminal illness.

Living is a little movie about big topics, it takes on nothing less than life itself and features a quiet, note-perfect performance from Bill Nighy.

Love Again
A fab little RomCom

Priyanka Chopra Jonas (The White Tiger) and Sam Heughan (Outlander) star in a romantic comedy with a premise that sounds a little like Sleepless In Seattle, a little like The Lake House: a woman (Chopra Jones) forms a connection with the man who is now the holder of her dead fiance's phone number when they begin communicating via txt message. Directed by Jim Strouse (People Places Things), this romcom also stars Russell Tovey (Looking) and Celine Dion.

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