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A hand-curated list of wonderful ways to spend your November, from group shows to bold new productions of classic plays and much more
Photography aficionados, make your way to the National Portrait Gallery stat for the institution’s annual exhibition showcasing all the best entries for the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize. Open to professional and amateur image-makers alike, the global competition sees thousands of portraits submitted each year, from commissioned stories to intimate snapshots, all of which are then whittled down by judges to provide a diverse and exciting overview of contemporary photographic portraiture. This year’s show will feature 54 works by 51 photographers including Italian photographer Elena Bianca Zagari, British artist Hollie Fernando, South African image-maker William Sheepskin and Malaysian documentary photographer Byron Mohammad Hamzah.
High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100 at the Whitney Museum, New York: Until March 2026
“I love the mechanics of the thing – and the vast space – and the spotlight,” the American sculptor Alexander Calder once said of the circus, a spectacle that greatly inspired him. So much so that in 1926, while living in Paris, the then-33 year old made his own miniature cirque – replete with animals, characters and sets in wire, wood, metal, cork, fabric and string – and would host live performances for the city’s avant garde. He did this on his knees, bringing his creations to life through movement, music and lighting, and performing for up to two hours at a time. Timed to coincide with its centenary, The Whitney’s latest exhibit explores the history of this extraordinary work – a jewel of the museum’s collection – revealing the ways in which it allowed Calder to “explore the core ideas of balance and movement” that would come to define his work thereafter.
An excellent new show at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo considers the influence of French thinkers, activists and poets (Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida et al) upon several generations of American artists, from the 1970s to the present day. Offering a fresh perspective on such well known figures as Pope L, Cindy Sherman and Lorna Simpson, as well as younger artists like Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Kameelah Janan Rasheed, the show examines the ways in which French theorists’ writings have served as transatlantic tools for the critique of artistic and societal institutions and norms.
The British artists Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas have been close friends for 25 years. Born on the same day 17 years apart, the duo share many things in common: something that their new joint exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ sets out to highlight. Spread across two spaces on Bury Street, the show will bring together Lucas’s bold, bendy assemblages and Hamblings’ irrepressibly expressive paintings – static works that pulsate with life – to highlight “the affinities between the artist’s distinct approaches. Above all, their sense of life’s proximity to death, and their defiant – defining – exuberance”.
Wes Anderson: The Archives at the Design Museum, London: 21 November 2025 – 26 July 2026
Fans of Wes Anderson will delight in the Design Museum’s upcoming show: the first retrospective of the Texan auteur, conceived in collaboration with la Cinémathèque française. As anyone who’s ever watched an Anderson movie will know, the filmmaker is notorious for his scrupulous attention to detail, from storyboarding to immersive set design, and visitors to the show will be met with no fewer than 600 objects from across Anderson’s cinematic career. Spanning his early experimental films from the 1990s right up to today, these range from polaroids, sketches, puppets and miniature models to paintings, handwritten notebooks and costumes (including Margot Tenenbaum’s Fendi fur coat and a candy pink model of the Grand Budapest Hotel).
Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum at David Zwirner, London: 6 November – 20 December 2025
See David Zwirner’s new exhibition of photographs by the celebrated US photographer Diane Arbus – each one captured in an intimate private space. Titled Sanctum Sanctorum, the show will feature 45 works taken between 1961 and 1971 in New York, New Jersey, California, and London. Regardless of the place or person pictured, the images reveal a unifying truth: Arbus’ ability to put people at ease and encapsulate her subjects’ essence on film with both candour and compassion.
Laurie Smith: Brick Boys at Gathering, Cologne: 5 November – 20 December 2025
At Gathering gallery’s Cologne outpost, British artist Laurie Smith will soon enjoy his debut European solo exhibition, Brick Boys. Rendered in elegant brushstrokes, and employing dramatic chiaroscuro, Smith’s work conveys “the restless energy of urban youth,” while drawing on a diverse array of references, from Martin Wong to Balthus to Goya. These particular works “reimagine London as a stage”, a place where architecture frames moments of both solitude and connection to mysterious, cinematic effect.
Gothiques at Louvre-Lens, Lens: Until 26 January 2026
If you’ve ever pondered the connection between modern day goths and the soaring spindly architecture and gold leaf-adorned religious paintings that that term Gothic was first coined to denote, then a trip to Lens in France may just be in order. There, a new show at the Louvre-Lens offers a panoramic overview of Gothic art from the 12th century to the present day, through more than 250 objects. Taking in art, architecture, writing, music, film, fashion and literature, it explores the effects of everything from humanism and technical innovation to sheer imagination upon the movement’s evolution across the ages.
Like Sunlight Coming Through the Clouds: Polaroids by Robby Müller at Capa Center, Budapest: Until 30 November 2025
If you happen to be in Budapest this month, don’t pass up the opportunity to see some of the magical polaroids captured by the late, great Dutch cinematographer Robbie Müller (Paris, Texas; Alice in the Cities; Down by Law) across the course of his career. In the words of Zágon Nagy, curator of a new exhibition of the works at the Capa Center, Müller’s snapshots “capture moments that would, a second later, perhaps unfold entirely differently: a car driving out of the frame, a bird that, who knows, was alive moments before the photo was taken, a fleeting lighting condition in a hotel room. These are everyday scenes – many of which we might recognize from our own lives – yet [through Müller’s lens] they never feel mundane.”
Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective at MoMA, New York: Until 7 February 2026
At MoMA, be sure to catch the first posthumous survey of the American artist Ruth Asawa, doyenne of woven wire sculptors. The exhibition features more than 370 works, dating back to the artist’s studies at Black Mountain College in the 1940s. From there, we follow her ongoing adventures in looped wire – breathtakingly beautiful and meditative aerial sculptures adorn almost every room – encounter everything from her calligraphic ink paintings to her designs for public monuments, and discover the myriad artworks that adorned her San Francisco home, created in collaboration with her six children. The cumulative effect is a striking testament to Asawa’s belief that living and making art are inseparably entwined.
Seeds of Hate and Hope at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich: 28 November 2025 – 17 May 2026
Later this month, Norwich’s Sainsbury Centre will lift the curtains on a group show platforming “personal artistic responses to global mass atrocities, such as genocides, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity”. The show will feature work by artists including Mona Hatoum, William Kentridge, Hew Locke and Kimberly Fulton Orozco, each of the chosen pieces reflecting, rather than depicting, the violence or victims of war and conflict. The aim is to explore “how both individual and collective acts of resistance and resilience often take root in times of conflict,” the art institute explains, “[and to] emphasise the vital role that human empathy and respect play in safeguarding society.”
Surrealism at Throckmorton Fine Art, New York: Until 29 November 2025
In New York, a new exhibition at Throckmorton Fine Art foregrounds the wide reaching impact of surrealism on photography, bringing together a century-spanning selection of images taken in Europe, the US and Mexico for the purpose. From Edward Weston’s fanciful fetishisation of inanimate objects to André Kertesz’s captivating bodily distortions, from Lucien Clergue’s suitably strange portrait of a paper-eye-sporting Jean Cocteau to Francesca Woodman ghostly self-portrait behind a tree, the decidedly timely show plunges us into an uncanny and often unsettling space that lays bare “the fragile border between reality and fantasy”.
Numbering among November’s most anticipated productions is All My Sons, Ivo van Hove’s fresh take on Arthur Miller’s story of a self-made businessman who prides himself on providing for his family, even if that means engaging in some dodgy dealings. With Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste in the starring roles, it’s the season’s hot ticket, arriving at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre on 14 November.
At the Donmar until 29 November, don’t miss your chance to see The Maids, Kip Williams’ “wild reimagining” of Jean Genet’s classic play in which two servants obsessively role-play the murder of their absent mistress, until their grip on reality starts to loosen. At the Royal Opera from 4-21 November, meanwhile, Katie Mitchell directs a new production of The Makropulos Case, Janáček’s haunting and enigmatic opera about a famous and mysterious opera singer, whose access to an immortality potion has kept her alive for more than 300 years and counting.
Dance lovers, book your tickets for Figures in Extinction, a major new collaboration between world-renowned international artists Crystal Pite (of Nederlands Dans Theater), Simon McBurney (of Complicité) and the NDT 1 dancers arriving at Sadler’s Well from 5-8 November. Created over the course of four years in response to “the urgency of our times and … increasing global destruction”, this moving and timely dance trilogy features three half-hour works combining dance, performance, spoken word, documentary and music.
For another multidisciplinary delight, there’s Adrian Dunbar: TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, coming to the Southbank Centre for one night only on 19 November. Under Dunbar’s direction, Eliot’s seminal poem will be brought to life with dramatisation by Unreal Cities and music by Nick Roth, performed by a full orchestra against the backdrop of the earliest colour footage of London. While for fans of Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy, The DAM Trilogy, at the Barbican on 28 November, is a must-see. There, Carlos Alomar and George Murray, the two surviving original members of the DAM. Trio, will faithfully perform arrangements from the three iconic albums they helped realise, alongside four additional musicians, including Bowie’s Live Aid guitarist, Kevin Armstrong.
November is rife with brilliant new film releases. First up is Belén, the gripping new film from actor-director Dolores Fonzi, which tells the real life story of Julieta, a young woman falsely accused of infanticide, and Soledad Deza, the fearless lawyer who takes on her case. Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay returns with Die My Love, a raw and intense psychological drama, featuring Jennifer Lawrence as a new mother battling postpartum psychosis in rural Montana. Another powerful, British-helmed study of alienation comes courtesy of Dragonfly, by Paul Andrew Williams, which sees an elderly woman form an unlikely friendship with her younger neighbour – a lonely woman whose intentions are unclear.
Don’t miss Left-Handed Girl, the stirring directorial debut from Taiwanese-American actor and producer Tsou Shih-Ching, co-written with Sean Baker. It follows a single mother and her two daughters, newly relocated to Taipei from the countryside, as they unearth family secrets and struggle to adapt to their new urban lifestyle. Richard Linklater is back with new biopic Blue Moon, starring a mesmerising Ethan Hawke as the songwriter Lorenz Hart. Set on the opening night of Oklahoma!, the new hit Broadway musical that Richard Rodgers, Hart’s former creative partner, has just written with Oscar Hammerstein II, it is a brilliant character study of a chronic self-sabotager. While Pillion, the funny, tender and subversive feature debut from British filmmaker Harry Lighton, sees a timid parking attendant fall for a confident biker-gang leader with a penchant for BDSM – with transformative results.
Our top picks from this month’s documentary releases, meanwhile, include Colossal Wreck from British filmmaker Josh Appignanesi, which takes us on “an odyssey inside the COP28 climate conference in Dubai” to come face to face with false promises and fearless frontline activism. David Osit’s compelling documentary Predators centres on the 00s TV show To Catch A Predator, wherein youthful actors were employed to catch potential child predators, examining its cultural impact – and controversial tactics – 20 years on. In award-winning docudrama Fiume o Morte!, Croatian director Igor Bezinović revisits Gabriele D’Annunzio’s 16-month fascist occupation of Fiume in 1919, and its legacy among the city’s contemporary denizens.
Foodies, there’s a lot to look forward to this month. Acclaimed Thai restaurant Som Saa in Spitalfields will reopen its doors on 11 November following a kitchen fire earlier in the year. The team have taken this opportunity to refresh the menu, and diners will be privy to a host of new dishes, delicious bar snacks and cocktails. Highlights will include the lemongrass salad with squid, pork and cashew nuts, and salted beef with fresh bamboo braised in coconut cream, which will feature alongside refined versions of old favourites like the Isaan-style deep fried seabass.
Westbourne Grove will soon be host to a new Italian restaurant and bar – Trogolo – from Lara Boglione (of Petersham Nurseries) and her husband Giovanni Mazzei (of Marchesi Mazzei). Inspired by the spirit of Florence, Trogolo will focus on “simple, rustic dishes that embody the generosity of Tuscan hospitality”, prioritising carefully sourced seasonal ingredients. The inaugural menu will include sumptuous starters such as hand-cut 24-month-aged Cinta Senese and pecorino with pear, while larger plates range from handmade tagliolini tossed with white truffle to arista con l’osso (a Tuscan bone-in pork loin with peperoncino). And for dessert? Apple tart with a scoop of vanilla gelato should do the trick.
Thai-American hotspot Chet’s, located on the ground floor of The Hoxton in Shepherd’s Bush, has just opened an accompanying bar with a menu of refreshing, Thai-inspired cocktails and bar snacks influenced by LA street food. Guests can start the night with a Lychee Martini (a blend of Reyka, manzanilla sherry, lychee, Chet’s Super Sour and wakamomo) or blast away the effects of the night before with a Chet’s Bloody Caesar, while nibbling tuna tacos with chipotle sriracha mayo and caviar, or pulled pork sliders with a BBQ spice rub, Tajin aioli and pickled pineapple.
For those looking for more wintery offerings, head to Somerset House from 13 November, where pop-up restaurant The Chalet will return just in time for the festive season. Adorned with retro ski memorabilia, the restaurant’s wooden interior brings a slice of Alpine life to London – one supplemented by the individual raclette machines that sit upon each table, allowing diners to dole out their own cheesy topping for charcuterie, baby potatoes, freshly baked bread, cornichons and salad. Mulled wine and other suitably thawing drinks complete the après ski – or rather, après Skate – experience.
Or you can put a Punjabi spin on your holiday dining with Empire Empire’s new Punjabi Winter celebration, featuring three specially designed feasting menus. The Notting Hill favourite – a delightfully nostalgic ode to 1970s Indian curry houses – is putting a tropical twist on festive traditions. Expect house-made masala chips served with tangy chutney, followed by kale patta chaat and crispy prawns Amritsari pakoras, and rounded off by a fiery laal maas and Hyderabadi aloo baingan for some spicy winter warmth.
Finally, for tasty Vietnamese fare, head to Cô Thành on Henrietta Street in Covent Garden, a brand new eatery founded by Brian Woo as a tribute to his mentor, the late Nguyễn Thị Thanh (whose legendary street food memorably featured on Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations). Following on from Woo’s first, Hong Kong-based restaurant, which opened in 2017, here you can enjoy the bold, herb-driven cooking of Southern Vietnam, dished up for a London audience. Whether tucking into Cánh gà chiên (beer-battered chicken wings tossed with roasted peanuts and a smoked nước chấm chilli glaze) to Bún Mắm (a rich vermicelli noodle soup built around a punchy fermented fish and shrimp paste broth) to classic Phở Tái Băm (an aromatic beef bone broth with a rare, premium cut beef patty), you won’t be disappointed.
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A hand-curated list of wonderful ways to spend your November, from group shows to bold new productions of classic plays and much more
Photography aficionados, make your way to the National Portrait Gallery stat for the institution’s annual exhibition showcasing all the best entries for the Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize. Open to professional and amateur image-makers alike, the global competition sees thousands of portraits submitted each year, from commissioned stories to intimate snapshots, all of which are then whittled down by judges to provide a diverse and exciting overview of contemporary photographic portraiture. This year’s show will feature 54 works by 51 photographers including Italian photographer Elena Bianca Zagari, British artist Hollie Fernando, South African image-maker William Sheepskin and Malaysian documentary photographer Byron Mohammad Hamzah.
High Wire: Calder’s Circus at 100 at the Whitney Museum, New York: Until March 2026
“I love the mechanics of the thing – and the vast space – and the spotlight,” the American sculptor Alexander Calder once said of the circus, a spectacle that greatly inspired him. So much so that in 1926, while living in Paris, the then-33 year old made his own miniature cirque – replete with animals, characters and sets in wire, wood, metal, cork, fabric and string – and would host live performances for the city’s avant garde. He did this on his knees, bringing his creations to life through movement, music and lighting, and performing for up to two hours at a time. Timed to coincide with its centenary, The Whitney’s latest exhibit explores the history of this extraordinary work – a jewel of the museum’s collection – revealing the ways in which it allowed Calder to “explore the core ideas of balance and movement” that would come to define his work thereafter.
An excellent new show at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo considers the influence of French thinkers, activists and poets (Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida et al) upon several generations of American artists, from the 1970s to the present day. Offering a fresh perspective on such well known figures as Pope L, Cindy Sherman and Lorna Simpson, as well as younger artists like Tiona Nekkia McClodden and Kameelah Janan Rasheed, the show examines the ways in which French theorists’ writings have served as transatlantic tools for the critique of artistic and societal institutions and norms.
The British artists Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas have been close friends for 25 years. Born on the same day 17 years apart, the duo share many things in common: something that their new joint exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ sets out to highlight. Spread across two spaces on Bury Street, the show will bring together Lucas’s bold, bendy assemblages and Hamblings’ irrepressibly expressive paintings – static works that pulsate with life – to highlight “the affinities between the artist’s distinct approaches. Above all, their sense of life’s proximity to death, and their defiant – defining – exuberance”.
Wes Anderson: The Archives at the Design Museum, London: 21 November 2025 – 26 July 2026
Fans of Wes Anderson will delight in the Design Museum’s upcoming show: the first retrospective of the Texan auteur, conceived in collaboration with la Cinémathèque française. As anyone who’s ever watched an Anderson movie will know, the filmmaker is notorious for his scrupulous attention to detail, from storyboarding to immersive set design, and visitors to the show will be met with no fewer than 600 objects from across Anderson’s cinematic career. Spanning his early experimental films from the 1990s right up to today, these range from polaroids, sketches, puppets and miniature models to paintings, handwritten notebooks and costumes (including Margot Tenenbaum’s Fendi fur coat and a candy pink model of the Grand Budapest Hotel).
Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum at David Zwirner, London: 6 November – 20 December 2025
See David Zwirner’s new exhibition of photographs by the celebrated US photographer Diane Arbus – each one captured in an intimate private space. Titled Sanctum Sanctorum, the show will feature 45 works taken between 1961 and 1971 in New York, New Jersey, California, and London. Regardless of the place or person pictured, the images reveal a unifying truth: Arbus’ ability to put people at ease and encapsulate her subjects’ essence on film with both candour and compassion.
Laurie Smith: Brick Boys at Gathering, Cologne: 5 November – 20 December 2025
At Gathering gallery’s Cologne outpost, British artist Laurie Smith will soon enjoy his debut European solo exhibition, Brick Boys. Rendered in elegant brushstrokes, and employing dramatic chiaroscuro, Smith’s work conveys “the restless energy of urban youth,” while drawing on a diverse array of references, from Martin Wong to Balthus to Goya. These particular works “reimagine London as a stage”, a place where architecture frames moments of both solitude and connection to mysterious, cinematic effect.
Gothiques at Louvre-Lens, Lens: Until 26 January 2026
If you’ve ever pondered the connection between modern day goths and the soaring spindly architecture and gold leaf-adorned religious paintings that that term Gothic was first coined to denote, then a trip to Lens in France may just be in order. There, a new show at the Louvre-Lens offers a panoramic overview of Gothic art from the 12th century to the present day, through more than 250 objects. Taking in art, architecture, writing, music, film, fashion and literature, it explores the effects of everything from humanism and technical innovation to sheer imagination upon the movement’s evolution across the ages.
Like Sunlight Coming Through the Clouds: Polaroids by Robby Müller at Capa Center, Budapest: Until 30 November 2025
If you happen to be in Budapest this month, don’t pass up the opportunity to see some of the magical polaroids captured by the late, great Dutch cinematographer Robbie Müller (Paris, Texas; Alice in the Cities; Down by Law) across the course of his career. In the words of Zágon Nagy, curator of a new exhibition of the works at the Capa Center, Müller’s snapshots “capture moments that would, a second later, perhaps unfold entirely differently: a car driving out of the frame, a bird that, who knows, was alive moments before the photo was taken, a fleeting lighting condition in a hotel room. These are everyday scenes – many of which we might recognize from our own lives – yet [through Müller’s lens] they never feel mundane.”
Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective at MoMA, New York: Until 7 February 2026
At MoMA, be sure to catch the first posthumous survey of the American artist Ruth Asawa, doyenne of woven wire sculptors. The exhibition features more than 370 works, dating back to the artist’s studies at Black Mountain College in the 1940s. From there, we follow her ongoing adventures in looped wire – breathtakingly beautiful and meditative aerial sculptures adorn almost every room – encounter everything from her calligraphic ink paintings to her designs for public monuments, and discover the myriad artworks that adorned her San Francisco home, created in collaboration with her six children. The cumulative effect is a striking testament to Asawa’s belief that living and making art are inseparably entwined.
Seeds of Hate and Hope at the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich: 28 November 2025 – 17 May 2026
Later this month, Norwich’s Sainsbury Centre will lift the curtains on a group show platforming “personal artistic responses to global mass atrocities, such as genocides, ethnic cleansing, war crimes and crimes against humanity”. The show will feature work by artists including Mona Hatoum, William Kentridge, Hew Locke and Kimberly Fulton Orozco, each of the chosen pieces reflecting, rather than depicting, the violence or victims of war and conflict. The aim is to explore “how both individual and collective acts of resistance and resilience often take root in times of conflict,” the art institute explains, “[and to] emphasise the vital role that human empathy and respect play in safeguarding society.”
Surrealism at Throckmorton Fine Art, New York: Until 29 November 2025
In New York, a new exhibition at Throckmorton Fine Art foregrounds the wide reaching impact of surrealism on photography, bringing together a century-spanning selection of images taken in Europe, the US and Mexico for the purpose. From Edward Weston’s fanciful fetishisation of inanimate objects to André Kertesz’s captivating bodily distortions, from Lucien Clergue’s suitably strange portrait of a paper-eye-sporting Jean Cocteau to Francesca Woodman ghostly self-portrait behind a tree, the decidedly timely show plunges us into an uncanny and often unsettling space that lays bare “the fragile border between reality and fantasy”.
Numbering among November’s most anticipated productions is All My Sons, Ivo van Hove’s fresh take on Arthur Miller’s story of a self-made businessman who prides himself on providing for his family, even if that means engaging in some dodgy dealings. With Bryan Cranston and Marianne Jean-Baptiste in the starring roles, it’s the season’s hot ticket, arriving at London’s Wyndham’s Theatre on 14 November.
At the Donmar until 29 November, don’t miss your chance to see The Maids, Kip Williams’ “wild reimagining” of Jean Genet’s classic play in which two servants obsessively role-play the murder of their absent mistress, until their grip on reality starts to loosen. At the Royal Opera from 4-21 November, meanwhile, Katie Mitchell directs a new production of The Makropulos Case, Janáček’s haunting and enigmatic opera about a famous and mysterious opera singer, whose access to an immortality potion has kept her alive for more than 300 years and counting.
Dance lovers, book your tickets for Figures in Extinction, a major new collaboration between world-renowned international artists Crystal Pite (of Nederlands Dans Theater), Simon McBurney (of Complicité) and the NDT 1 dancers arriving at Sadler’s Well from 5-8 November. Created over the course of four years in response to “the urgency of our times and … increasing global destruction”, this moving and timely dance trilogy features three half-hour works combining dance, performance, spoken word, documentary and music.
For another multidisciplinary delight, there’s Adrian Dunbar: TS Eliot’s The Waste Land, coming to the Southbank Centre for one night only on 19 November. Under Dunbar’s direction, Eliot’s seminal poem will be brought to life with dramatisation by Unreal Cities and music by Nick Roth, performed by a full orchestra against the backdrop of the earliest colour footage of London. While for fans of Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy, The DAM Trilogy, at the Barbican on 28 November, is a must-see. There, Carlos Alomar and George Murray, the two surviving original members of the DAM. Trio, will faithfully perform arrangements from the three iconic albums they helped realise, alongside four additional musicians, including Bowie’s Live Aid guitarist, Kevin Armstrong.
November is rife with brilliant new film releases. First up is Belén, the gripping new film from actor-director Dolores Fonzi, which tells the real life story of Julieta, a young woman falsely accused of infanticide, and Soledad Deza, the fearless lawyer who takes on her case. Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay returns with Die My Love, a raw and intense psychological drama, featuring Jennifer Lawrence as a new mother battling postpartum psychosis in rural Montana. Another powerful, British-helmed study of alienation comes courtesy of Dragonfly, by Paul Andrew Williams, which sees an elderly woman form an unlikely friendship with her younger neighbour – a lonely woman whose intentions are unclear.
Don’t miss Left-Handed Girl, the stirring directorial debut from Taiwanese-American actor and producer Tsou Shih-Ching, co-written with Sean Baker. It follows a single mother and her two daughters, newly relocated to Taipei from the countryside, as they unearth family secrets and struggle to adapt to their new urban lifestyle. Richard Linklater is back with new biopic Blue Moon, starring a mesmerising Ethan Hawke as the songwriter Lorenz Hart. Set on the opening night of Oklahoma!, the new hit Broadway musical that Richard Rodgers, Hart’s former creative partner, has just written with Oscar Hammerstein II, it is a brilliant character study of a chronic self-sabotager. While Pillion, the funny, tender and subversive feature debut from British filmmaker Harry Lighton, sees a timid parking attendant fall for a confident biker-gang leader with a penchant for BDSM – with transformative results.
Our top picks from this month’s documentary releases, meanwhile, include Colossal Wreck from British filmmaker Josh Appignanesi, which takes us on “an odyssey inside the COP28 climate conference in Dubai” to come face to face with false promises and fearless frontline activism. David Osit’s compelling documentary Predators centres on the 00s TV show To Catch A Predator, wherein youthful actors were employed to catch potential child predators, examining its cultural impact – and controversial tactics – 20 years on. In award-winning docudrama Fiume o Morte!, Croatian director Igor Bezinović revisits Gabriele D’Annunzio’s 16-month fascist occupation of Fiume in 1919, and its legacy among the city’s contemporary denizens.
Foodies, there’s a lot to look forward to this month. Acclaimed Thai restaurant Som Saa in Spitalfields will reopen its doors on 11 November following a kitchen fire earlier in the year. The team have taken this opportunity to refresh the menu, and diners will be privy to a host of new dishes, delicious bar snacks and cocktails. Highlights will include the lemongrass salad with squid, pork and cashew nuts, and salted beef with fresh bamboo braised in coconut cream, which will feature alongside refined versions of old favourites like the Isaan-style deep fried seabass.
Westbourne Grove will soon be host to a new Italian restaurant and bar – Trogolo – from Lara Boglione (of Petersham Nurseries) and her husband Giovanni Mazzei (of Marchesi Mazzei). Inspired by the spirit of Florence, Trogolo will focus on “simple, rustic dishes that embody the generosity of Tuscan hospitality”, prioritising carefully sourced seasonal ingredients. The inaugural menu will include sumptuous starters such as hand-cut 24-month-aged Cinta Senese and pecorino with pear, while larger plates range from handmade tagliolini tossed with white truffle to arista con l’osso (a Tuscan bone-in pork loin with peperoncino). And for dessert? Apple tart with a scoop of vanilla gelato should do the trick.
Thai-American hotspot Chet’s, located on the ground floor of The Hoxton in Shepherd’s Bush, has just opened an accompanying bar with a menu of refreshing, Thai-inspired cocktails and bar snacks influenced by LA street food. Guests can start the night with a Lychee Martini (a blend of Reyka, manzanilla sherry, lychee, Chet’s Super Sour and wakamomo) or blast away the effects of the night before with a Chet’s Bloody Caesar, while nibbling tuna tacos with chipotle sriracha mayo and caviar, or pulled pork sliders with a BBQ spice rub, Tajin aioli and pickled pineapple.
For those looking for more wintery offerings, head to Somerset House from 13 November, where pop-up restaurant The Chalet will return just in time for the festive season. Adorned with retro ski memorabilia, the restaurant’s wooden interior brings a slice of Alpine life to London – one supplemented by the individual raclette machines that sit upon each table, allowing diners to dole out their own cheesy topping for charcuterie, baby potatoes, freshly baked bread, cornichons and salad. Mulled wine and other suitably thawing drinks complete the après ski – or rather, après Skate – experience.
Or you can put a Punjabi spin on your holiday dining with Empire Empire’s new Punjabi Winter celebration, featuring three specially designed feasting menus. The Notting Hill favourite – a delightfully nostalgic ode to 1970s Indian curry houses – is putting a tropical twist on festive traditions. Expect house-made masala chips served with tangy chutney, followed by kale patta chaat and crispy prawns Amritsari pakoras, and rounded off by a fiery laal maas and Hyderabadi aloo baingan for some spicy winter warmth.
Finally, for tasty Vietnamese fare, head to Cô Thành on Henrietta Street in Covent Garden, a brand new eatery founded by Brian Woo as a tribute to his mentor, the late Nguyễn Thị Thanh (whose legendary street food memorably featured on Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations). Following on from Woo’s first, Hong Kong-based restaurant, which opened in 2017, here you can enjoy the bold, herb-driven cooking of Southern Vietnam, dished up for a London audience. Whether tucking into Cánh gà chiên (beer-battered chicken wings tossed with roasted peanuts and a smoked nước chấm chilli glaze) to Bún Mắm (a rich vermicelli noodle soup built around a punchy fermented fish and shrimp paste broth) to classic Phở Tái Băm (an aromatic beef bone broth with a rare, premium cut beef patty), you won’t be disappointed.
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