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Male bonding, professional rivalry, a clash of ideas - but enough about Owen and Ralph, this week they discuss Krzysztof Zanussi’s subtle character study on the friendship between two scientists whose lives have taken divergent paths.

This week, Owen and Ralph get down and dirty with Gaspar Noé's 2015 erotic psychodrama, Love. A film with balls, and heart, and a lot, lot more.

In response to unfolding events in America, Owen and Ralph watch a historical documentary about the civil rights movement, including a layman's intro to the films of the LA Rebellion movement. We encourage people to donate to this aggregate of bail and memorial funds https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd

Owen and Ralph give a sort of semi-enthusiastic yee-haw for Bacurau, the ‘weird western’ from Brazilian directors Kleber Filho and Juliano Dornelles. A town under siege. A bloody standoff. An opioid crisis. Oh my.

In this first episode, Owen and Ralph take one small step for nobody in particular, and penetrate the pulsating red walls of High Life. Sometimes referred to as 'daddy Issues in Space', other times as 'ASMR Scientist with a French Accent Harvests Your Sperm', veteran director Claire Denis serves up a compelling yet flawed vision of intergalactic pain and punishment.