Expertly milking tensions between a frustrated teenage girl, her oppressive father and the suave stranger who comes between them, this darkly sensual fusion of sunshine noir and coming-of-age tale has a cool tonal control that even turned the head of executive producer Martin Scorsese.Дays of the Bagnold Summer (Anti-Worlds) A somewhat different study of parent-teen conflict over the course of a sleepy summer, Simon BirdвЂ™s amiably shaggy British comedy comes belatedly to Blu-ray in a package as elaborate as the film is unassuming, with extras including three quirky shorts by Joff Winterhart, author of the graphic novel at the featureвЂ™s source.'Howard' Is Moving Profile Of Groundbreaking Disney Lyricist Whose Life Was Tragically Cut Short By AIDS Murina (Modern Films) Croatian film-maker Antoneta Alamat KusijanoviД‡ won the Camera dвЂ™Or for best debut feature at Cannes last year, and deservedly so. As a dedicated violin teacher whose investment in a young, anxious student grows increasingly obsessive вЂ“ at the expense of her own gifted son вЂ“ she brings grounding credibility to potentially loopy plot turns. The Audition (New Wave) A performance of laid-bare emotional intensity from the reliably fierce Nina Hoss gives an icy jolt to this simmering German psychodrama. Andrea ArnoldвЂ™s radical reimagining of Wuthering Heights(Netflix), meanwhile, is as febrile with the countyвЂ™s natural wildness вЂ“ its changeable weather and surging wildflowers вЂ“ as it is with Heathcliff and CathyвЂ™s own unruly passion. Francis LeeвЂ™s glorious GodвЂ™s Own Country (Curzon) does something similar in its study of sheep farmers discovering themselves and each other on YorkshireвЂ™s slopes, though it finds a different kind of warmth in the regionвЂ™s stormy drear. Take PaweЕ‚ PawlikowskiвЂ™s rapturous, sunstruck coming-of-age romance My Summer of Love(Google Play), which might not skimp on tough social realities in its story of two teenage girls falling in love across class lines, but also depicts the countryside (never more woozily gorgeous) as a place of magic, liberating possibilities. BBC Films/ AllstarД«ut Yorkshire cinema is so much more than angry men and kitchen sinks: the regions rolling moors and misty atmospherics also lend themselves to a unique brand of British romanticism.

My Summer of Love (2004), with Natalie Press and Emily Blunt. Halifax and Bradford stood in for the filmвЂ™s fictionalised Yorkshire towns Bradford got to play itself, more vibrantly, in John SchlesingerвЂ™s Billy Liar (Google Play), which mixed kitchen-sink grit with rousing flights of fancy, and made a star of working-class Hull lad Tom Courtenay. In the still-potent class-war drama Room at the Top (BFI Player), Laurence HarveyвЂ™s ambitious desk-jobber attempts to forget his factory-town roots by climbing any social ladder West Riding has to offer. The former mining town of Wakefield served as the unforgiving backdrop for LindsayвЂ™s 1963 stunner This Sporting Life (Amazon Prime), in which labour, lust and rugby leave their various scars on Richard HarrisвЂ™s brooding hero. A Midlander himself, Ken Loach struck into the heart of working-class Yorkshire in 1969 with the Barnsley-set Kes (Apple TV), its heartbreaking story of childhood deprivation finding fleeting spiritual release in the natural world.Д«efore Loach, meanwhile, Yorkshire was a major stomping ground for the so-called Angry Young Men populating the midcentury revolution in British realist cinema. ThereвЂ™s a wealth of landmark films set and shot in Yorkshire, beginning with the director to whom Barnard, among many others, owes an obvious debt. Richard Harris in This Sporting Life (1963). Collectively they confirm Barnard as one of BritainвЂ™s great Yorkshire film-makers. More so than in BarnardвЂ™s previous Bradford-set films, her exquisitely tough fable of childhood tragedy and trauma The Selfish Giant (Arrow) and her formally daring, semi-performed documentary The Arbor (BFI Player), a portrait of the Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar in which the authenticity of the location threads an experimental blend of performance and archival recording.

ItвЂ™s her third film set in the once-booming beneficiary of the Industrial Revolution, and while she doesnвЂ™t over-romanticise BradfordвЂ™s mixture of Victorian grandeur and contemporary poverty, a palpable affection for its physical and social geography softens the edges of its realism. More metaphorically, Ali & Ava extends BarnardвЂ™s ongoing devotion to the Yorkshire city of Bradford, not far from her own home town of Otley. C laire Rushbrook and Adeel Akhtar are the middle-aged lovers defying familial prejudice and cultural barriers in Ali & Ava (arriving on major VOD platforms on Monday), but thatвЂ™s only one of the romances unfolding in British director Clio BarnardвЂ™s gentle, sentimental film.

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