This week’s cinema releases include Vivaldi teaching a talented young violinist, an infection outbreak in Seoul creates zombie-like creatures, and Steven Spielberg returns with undoubtable proof of the existence of alien life.
Also, in the Italian region of Piedmont an adorable truffle-hunting dog called Birba is a family’s last hope and Leo Woodall becomes a reluctant safe cracker starring alongside Dustin Hoffman.
Refer to your local cinema for session times and dates.
New releases include the below.
Primavera
Rated M
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Synopsis: A talented violinist, Cecilia, confined in an orphanage, meets Vivaldi who becomes her teacher. Under his mentorship and through his music, she gains courage to break free from the life she was destined for and pursue her passion.
Read Rebecca Wu’s Glam Adelaide review here: Film Review: Primavera – Glam Adelaide
Colony
Rated MA+15
Distributor: Screen-Space
Synopsis: In a high-rise building in downtown Seoul, there is a mass outbreak of an unknown infection. Within no time, the building is sealed off, and the people inside are trapped.
The infected, after first crawling on all fours like beasts, gradually evolve and begin moving on two feet. Before long they start to identify the survivors and make coordinated group attacks. Biotechnology professor Kwon Se-jeong and several other survivors manage to find Suh Young-chul, who claims to have injected himself with a vaccine, and head to the roof where a rescue team is waiting.
However, as they make their way upwards, the situation becomes ever more precarious as Suh Young-chul uses the infected to block the group’s path…
Disclosure Day
Rated M
Distributor: Universal Pictures
Synopsis: If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This year, the truth belongs to seven billion people.
We are coming close to … Disclosure Day.
Trifole
Rated M
Distributor: Hi Gloss Entertainment
Synopsis: In this bittersweet portrait of a vanishing rural way of life, 28-year-old Dalia leaves London to check up on her ageing grandfather Igor, an expert truffle hunter in the picturesque but isolated Italian region of Piedmont. At first Igor can barely hide his resentment towards Dalia’s intrusion, and the two struggle to find common ground about anything other than Igor’s adorable truffle-hunting dog, Birba.
This is until Dalia discovers that Igor is behind on his mortgage payments and sets out into the woods with Birba in tow to find a rare and valuable truffle in the hopes of saving the family home. What ensues is a visually spectacular journey into the rarely seen Piedmont forest, where Dalia and Birba have to contend with rival truffle hunters, the dangers of the forest, and the shady agricultural industry in order to find the legendary lightning-struck truffle.
Tuner
Rated MA15+
Distributor: Black Bear
Synopsis: Leo Woodall stars as a gifted young piano tuner whose heightened sense of hearing draws the attention of criminals, who see his talents as useful for opening safes as for tuning Steinways.
With his once-promising musical career over, he works across New York with his mentor Harry Horowitz (Academy Award-winner Dustin Hoffman), encountering a range of characters, including composition student Ruthie (Havana Rose Liu), with whom he forges an unexpected connection. Niki’s safecracking work threatens his budding romance with Ruthie and pulls him into increasingly dangerous territory.
