Metrograph

The gentle, restrained, and terribly humane Yi Yi observes the interplay between three generations of an upper middle-class Taipei family. A work of epic length that avoids even a hint of bombast, dedicated instead to working its way into the hidden, niche spaces of everyday people’s emotional lives, it’s a film as rich and as sad as life itself.

Madonna landed the coveted role of actress-cum-First Lady Eva Perón in this lavish, costume-change-a-minute adaptation of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 1978 stage musical, featuring Jonathan Pryce as the statesman who shares his power and his bed with Eva, and Antonio Banderas as narrator of her meteoric rise and tragic end.